Agreed.
Looks to me like Perry is going to fade fast. (To be honest, he also looks like his back surgery is bothering him quite a bit — maybe this is more strenuous than he anticipated, but he sure looks as though he’s in pain sometimes.)
If/when Perry fades, people will STILL be looking for an alternative to Romney. I think the pundits are wrong that Perry’s support will automatically go to Romney.
On that stage, the candidate best positioned to take on Romney — and the one with the best chance of KO’ing Romney — is Santorum.
Of course, Gingrich would be ahead of Santorum except he’s just considered to have too much baggage. Santorum has a lot of the strengths that Gingrich has without the baggage.
Can Santorum beat Obama?
IF he gets the nomination, that will say a lot about how he was able to dig deep and BRING IT during the primaries. So, bottom line: we’ll see.
Rick Santorum leads an exemplary family moral life. And I think it is for just that reason that homosexual PAC's (there are four or five that concentrate on adversary support against family-values candidates at the state and municipal levels, trying to cut future Ronald Reagans off at the knees) went after him bigtime.
He was also jobbed IMHO by Karl Rove. I mean jobbed, as in Christine O'Donnell and other Tea Party candidates Rove karate-chopped last year.
I suspect that Rove is at the vortex of the GOProud phenomenon (before GOProud, there was RUC, the Republican Unity Coalition, call it PFLAG for Republicans built around some longtime Bush family associates and allies, that broke apart when Bush 43 endorsed DOMA), and that he really, truly wants the Loggies' money in the mix.
Keep in mind that Ken Mehlman and many Bush appointees were out and gay -- Mehlman after he left the RNC, I grant you. But Dubya appointed a hell of a lot of gays, and he was doing a lot of pattyfingers with the Loggies under the table in 2000, even as the Christian Coalition were being treated to box lunch and speeches from Rove in lieu of Bush, who was across town dining with the Loggies, with Mary Matalin doing his advance with them and telling them how much thinking Republicans, in the name of fairness, supported same-sex marriage. Smoke that for a while, while we listen to Adam Nagourney of The New York Times, just a month or two ago, telling Charlie Rose that gay money in politics is huge now, in both parties (and Nagourney would know -- most of his colleagues at the Times are gay and arrogantly so).
I agree. Romney is okay and I would vote for him instead of Obama, but I see Romney as a man that Rove and others in the Ruling Class are trying to jam down our throats -- just like they did with McCain and Dole.