Merry Christmas to you, Lady. Glad you liked Perry tonight.
He’s my guy.
Should Newt falter, at least you have a good fallback guy.
Merry Christmas, altura!
Yep, Rick Perry would be my fallback guy — been giving this a lot of consideration for months now, and he’s the only one besides Newt who has gone UP in my estimation. Bachmann’s been a big disappointment, tends to sound mean and plays loose with the truth. Tonight she was trawling for Cain supporters, too, though she wasn’t very pleasant to Cain while he was running. Santorum is always off-key somehow, and has not made the case for himself at all. Romney gave everybody another reason to dislike him: he said that speaking truth is “throwing bombs.”
Perry’s had time to show people that there is no meanness in him, no phoniness, no ambiguity; these are things we discern gradually. Conservative principles, we all grasp instantly, but character takes longer to get across.