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Every article on Perry brings out all the anti-Perry crowd screaming RINO, RINO, RINO!

Let's be honest. Who else has a better chance of not only beating Obama but of truly addressing our country's issues?

Romney - believes government can run health care - even in only in one state - that is a disgrace for a liberty loving Republican. He still hasn't admitted that he was wrong. He would be the real RINO. Pretty boy with talking points.

Bachmann- love her, respect her, she says all the right things (great of Fox this morning against that lefty Wallace) but has only slightly more experience that Obama had and I don't see the Country going with another rookie. Big negatives (for no good reason, I might add), but not as big negatives as Palin (love her too, but no chance in Hell, sorry Palin lovers).

Ron Paul - too extreme for the independents. Again, had a great showing in Iowa, but doesn't translate to the general population.

Perry - his speech yesterday was pitch perfect. Sure he isn't perfect. His enemies (including the group listed in this blog) can look at a real record of 10 years as Governor and, 17 years of public service before that to find instances when he didn't take a perfect hard line - but that doesn't define the man. The fact he was pragmatic and got results consistent with what was best for his State is what counts. When he made mistakes - and he has had a few whoppers, he is willing to change course and correct things.

We don't want another extreme ideologue like Obama who, even after every selling point of Obamacare was proved over time to be completely fictional (mostly by the GAO), still fights tooth and nail on his flawed program. Look at “raising taxes on the rich” nonsense. Even after he reaffirms the Bush tax cuts twice by signing the legislation, the next day he says - paraphrasing - “well, next time it will be different - we need to have a balanced approach”.

From all out there so far, Perry is the only guy that can be consistent with our most important principals, be able to advocate them well. He is a talented campaigner - took on Bush and his pals to beat Hutchison for Governor last time around. He plays hard and will fight back. As T-Paw proved, if you don't have the killer instinct, you're history.

BTW, love loser pays tort reform - not in all cases, but is such a great start in cleaning out our corrupt judiciary.

Let's give Perry some time to get his campaign up to speed. He will make some mistakes. From the group out there now, he seems head and shoulders above the pack.

We have to get the White House and, in my view, control Supreme Court nominations. There will be a few over the next 4 years (8 with Perry, hopefully).

The experience is the problem. When you're competing against people with very short careers that say all the right things, its easy to look bad in comparison.

Bachmann, philosophically, is rock solid. As a legislator, she doesn't seem to have any accomplishments other than pushing for or against things. Important work, but her claim to fame as far as legislative work is a Light Bulb Choice act. I'm for that, but ... it's thin stuff to run for President on. It's exactly comparable to Obama, except she's a congresswoman, not a senator.

Romney's got a slightly longer career. Corporate raider. Romneycare. Bad on guns before he was Charlton Heston. Pro-choice before he found religion. He's a power obsessed chameleon. If Barack Obama kicked out Biden and asked Romney to be his VP, Mitt wouldn't answer until he had run the numbers. He's literally nobody's first choice, but he's just too slick to give up.

Perry's neither as good as Bachmann or as bad as Romney, except for one major distinguishing factor. He HAS accomplishments, not just positions. You can argue the specifics, but overall, Texas is doing great. If the rest of America was governed like Texas, America would be WAY better off.

Yeah, Perry's got black marks. The guy's been governor for 10 years. Imagine if Romney had? Bachmann's weakness is that she's never been in the big chair, and we don't know if the talk will hold up. Running a trillion dollar enterprise has a lot more to it than having your heart in the right place.

The biggest thing Perry has going for him is that he has a full record to be judged on. Obama won with the Tabula Rasa last time, and everyone imagined it would be wonderful. (Except for us, because we knew we had no reason to expect otherwise. The guy had no record, just talk.) So, among voters that don't pay too much attention or aren't worried about ideological purity, Perry will seem more genuine than Romney and more reliably tested than Bachmann.