You mean the Rick Perry the GOP Establishment see as their fall back card?
Bill Kristol to a NY Time Reporter telling him how the GOP Establishment plans to deal with “the Tea party mutiny”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2792217/posts?page=3
Kristol told me just after Perry entered the race, a development that essentially ended [the more radical Michele] Bachmann’s brief ascent. Establishment Republicans may prefer Romney to Perry, but their assumption is that either man can be counted on to steer the party back toward the broad center next fall, effectively disarming the Tea Party mutiny.
Perry is an evangelical Christian. They don’t allow those in the club. His energy speech was awesome.
And sane Republican candidate will do the same.
You keep posting it, when in fact the source of this is a leftist reporter in the NY Times and 1) his statement is not verifiable; 2) who cares what Bill Kristol says.
You want us to believe someone who says things like this:
Does Anyone Have a Grip on the G.O.P.?
by Matt Bai
“It’s worth pointing out that when Republicans express concern about the anti-government militancy in their midst, it has a ring of serious denial. After all, generations of Republican candidates have now echoed the theme of Ronald Reagan in his 1981 inaugural address: “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”
And a progression of ideological uprisings inside the party — the Reagan revolutionaries, Pat Buchanan’s pitchfork brigades, Newt Gingrich’s band of guerrilla lawmakers and now the Tea Partiers - have only pushed the anti-Washington argument closer to its illogical extreme. “
What a surprise that far leftists hate Perry and this is what you are bringing here to FR as authoritative source?!
Bill Kristol and Mitt Romney= second generation elite establishment.
Bill Kristol and Mitt Romney= second generation elite establishment.
You posted this on other threads. The GOP establishment doesn’t want to see Perry receive the nomination.
Kristol is one of the main reasons I quit watching (and supporting) Fox News.