I think, if Perry can overcome his current difficulties to become the nominee, he will be a very good president, imo. He may not be Reagan, but he will be good.
Having daid that, I think his obvious lack of preparation for the role has been a disappointment to me. I would even say, since I have a very high opinion of the kind of person I want in the White House, I’m a bit angry over this act of carelessness.
I don’t expect perfection and I know the candidate will never measure up to what I’d like to see, but, if he thought that he might be willing to be president, why didn’t he spend the last year prepping.
All he had to do, to understand the country, is get his assistant to clip out relevant articles from all over the country and read them. If he wasn’t able to have his assistant do that, somebody in the Republican establishment would have happily paid for somebody on Perry’s behalf to do that for him.
And he would have been better prepared.
As someone else pointed out on this thread Perry shares the same problem as most of the other candidates Perry, Mitt, Newt, Bachmann have all spent most of their careers running for office and all can be classified as career politicians and people are sick and tried of career politicians, no matter how conservative they may appear they just DO NOT FULLY TRUST any of them and why should they?
I would not mind Perry being the nominee too much. But I agree with you.....he came into the race with an arrogance and expectation for a coronation. I am happy he did not get a coronation and has had cold water thrown in his face instead.
Our candidates must be positive, upbeat and ready for any challenge. Our candidates must be stronger, better prepared and tougher than what is expected of the other side.
Illegal immigration is literally destroying the nation, and very few politicians seem to care. Herman Cain is the first Presidential front runner to even talk tough on the issue in my lifetime. To not even have serious tough talk from an electable candidate on such an important issue is just pathetic. I'll let Obama destroy the nation a little faster before I support anyone else who doesn't talk about stopping this problem, never mind a guy like Perry who is pro-illegal immigration based on his words and actions. I would just be supporting a slightly slower destruction of the nation.
I'm sick of hearing about all these foreign threats that aren't even comparable to the danger we are facing from Mexico. They are our real enemy, and have done more harm to the U.S. than any other nation such as Iran. They are our biggest threat, not to mention any attack from another country could easily involve entering the U.S. from Mexico. The Mexican government has been caught helping illegal immigrants enter the country while advising them on what to do once here. That's something that justifies an actual war, but we do nothing while they talk down to us constantly.