Thanks, I guess, but you're 100% wrong. Perry is not the new Romney.
The MSM, in case you're not watching CNN, is reporting Perry as Barry Goldwater times Attila the Hun. MSNBC thinks he's got horns and cloven hoofs.
He's GOP establishment in that he's the senior governor in the country of one of the largest states in the Union. That's 'establishment' by definition at that point. It would be disingenuous to claim 'outsider' status when you're a pillar of the party. Once Mitt falls (insha'allah), the support of the other big players and big donors will have to go somewhere. Every candidate out there, insurgent or beltway, is hoping for the big donor support that is begrudgingly supporting Romney. Yeah, I know the system sucks, but we can't pretend it doesn't exist or that is can be ignored.
Does Perry have some black marks on his record? Sure. He's got a couple of issues I take real exception to, but overall, he's a solid social conservative who ran his state well, good on guns and pro life. The only people with no black marks on their records are people with exceptionally short ones. Anyone with a decade long record in the big leagues will have black marks. Obama supporters are learning that now. Being ideologically pure doesn't mean you can deliver better than the sellout who knows how to play the game.
Comparing him to Mitt Hologramney is simply not reasonable.
Give it a week. Fox first, then CNN and WaPo. The rest will settle for nothing less than Karl Marx himself. What happens here on FR is anyone’s guess. Fact is, Bachman won. I’ll take that as a victory, and as I said before, your analysis was spot on. Don’t let my personal opinion distract from that. Isn’t that what forums are for?