[Cringing Negativism Network]

On the contrary.

George W Bush did almost the same thing to his own support, with almost the same position.

Conservatives are not destroying Perry.

It’s entirely self-inflicted.

[muawiyah]

Perry did it to himself. First he blamed it all on the state legislature ~ an habitual practice Romney is best known for. Then he accused his own voting base of being racist and heartless.

What that means is that he arrogantly ascribes to himself undeserved moral certitude.

We already got a guy who does that all the time. His current popularity is down there in the 30% range!

[McGavin999]

Nope, he was being destroyed by the establishment long before he made that mistake. The people here went on and on about him as though he was some northeastern liberal. He is the still the choice of the Evangelicals and I'm telling you right now, no republican will win without them. After what was done to Perry, they all just may stay home.

I still think Perry will recover, I don't know if he can win the nomination, but he'll stay and fight. I also think there will be a whole lot of Texans who won't forgive or forget what was done to Perry, and winning without Texas will be pretty hard too. Sure the Paul followers hate him but there is about 25,000,000 other Texnas who have been mightily offended at how their governor has been treated and what republican think of their decision (Perry only signed the bill you know). They changed to republican a while back, I doubt if they would become democrats, but they may just be too busy on election day to vote.

[RJS1950]

In 2008 Romney who picked up his toys and went, ignoring any support for even the worst the GOP could put out there and making it easier for der Fuehrer. It would seem that the real test of which of the candidates care about the country and which do not will be when a candidate is nominated. Those who won’t get full up behind removing the kenyan from office never cared about conservatism and the Constitution in the first place.