Bachmann and Santorum are Romney's allies. Romney can't attack Perry from the right but they can. They do it for him, either because they have a delusional belief that they can be serious conservative candidates or because they have some understanding with Romney.
Attacks on Perry from the right create a great disturbance in the conservative force because many of us are disappointed that fate is forcing us to settle for Perry. Many wanted Sarah and the bitter disappointment makes them susceptible to the attacks on Perry. All the disappointment boils up and expresses itself as fury.
This too shall pass. Romney can't benefit in the long run by trying to discredit Perry with conservatives. Sooner or later, everyone will notice that we face a binary choice and that Perry, for all his faults, is much closer to the conservative ideal than Romney.
All the attacks are just noise and it will die down soon enough.
very intelligent response, and you summed up my feelings on the race perfectly.
“Bachmann and Santorum are Romney’s allies. Romney can’t attack Perry from the right but they can. They do it for him, either because they have a delusional belief that they can be serious conservative candidates or because they have some understanding with Romney.”
Naa, they are just newbs. They know they can’t appeal to rinos so they have to go after Perry in their own weak way. But Romney is trying to get to the right of Perry on immigration.
Most excellent post.