I don’t know if that is true or not. But AT THE MOMENT, looking at the CURRENT ANNOUNCED CANDIDATES, it may be that Rick Perry is our best and only chance at stopping Romney.
The bad thing would be if Perry just splits conservative votes with Bachmann, and to a lesser extent Santorum and Cain, and then later Sarah Palin gets in and splits the conservative vote even further.
If Perry is a flash in the pan, it should show up in the polls; if Bachmann also fades like the anti-Bachmann people here keep telling us, that would leave a vacuum that Sarah Palin could fill, to beat Romney.
So the question is, will Perry and Bachmann both fade on their own? It’s hard to tell whether the attacks on them here aren’t just people who really want Palin and Only Palin, and realise that they need to discredit every other possible conservative candidate to clear the field.
There’s plenty of time for this to settle out; I just hope we don’t make the mistakes of 2008, and in search of the perfect conservative, we end up with another McCain-Type candidate.
Good analysis..well thought out.