[trisham]

I don’t understand how this inarticulate, confused and uneducated man has garnered so much support.

[Liz]

The Perry MO is very contrived and organized-----no matter what the polls say, no matter what the headlines are, Perry alone is "the winner," "ahead," "unbeatable," "loudly applauded," "universally praised," "the best debater," etc, etc, etc.

CASE IN POINT A Perrydactyl posted an article that paints Perry as a "favorite" of the Tea Party.....but the link to the article affirms that Texas Tea Party leaders are unhappy with Perry. Remember that Perry was loudly booed at the Tea Party Debate on the issue of immigration.

CASE IN POINT He tries to look tough on illegals but Perry's first fundraiser in NYC was to an Hipanic group at Papasito's Mexican Grill......a voting bloc he will owe a lot to.

PERRY SURFACES Perry did not officially enter the Iowa straw poll......but he calculatedly timed throwing his hat into the ring on the same day Bachman won the Iowa straw poll----stomping all over Bachman's hard-won victory. Perry cunningly manipulated the Iowa vote from Texas. That strategy was supposed to put him ver the top. Instead he got a pathetic 700-800 write-ins ...while Iowa winners who did the right thing-—spending time and money there-—— got 4000 votes each. The Perrydactyl's were cued to "say" Ricky won Iowa.

And there was Perry---front and center---waving to Iowans, taking pics in front of prominent Iowa banners---manipulating the media to make it look like he was the winner.

The winner in his own mind.

[Windflier]

I don’t understand how this inarticulate, confused and uneducated man has garnered so much support.

Simple. He's run against dirtbags, loons, Socialist liberals, RINOs, comedians, and unknowns, in every single election, til now.

He also knows how to play a hard-nosed conservative fighter at election time, and has all the right friends. Sum total? He's a ruling class establishment man.