[normy]

I like Santorum but the GOP media are pushing this awfully hard. It's nice to hear good news as a candidate but Perry was at 16% last week in an IA poll and it was barely mentioned.

I have never seen an election where the "conservative" media and the GOP have tried to divide and conquer the Conservative base.

What I am hearing though is Bachmann and Newt are dropping in Iowa and the two Ricks are rising.

The biggest problem I see with Santorum is the same thing I see with all our candidates. There is no record to run against Obama with while he has been President.

Socially the Ricks are very similar but record wise Perry has a very successful one to counter the eventual Obama argument that he "inherited Bush's economy".

Perry has the answer to that and the facts show why we should have handled things like Perry did in Texas as opposed to how Obama did in DC. I think that will be what beats Obama.

[Oceander]

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Socially the Ricks are very similar but record wise Perry has a very successful one to counter the eventual Obama argument that he "inherited Bush's economy".

Perry has the answer to that and the facts show why we should have handled things like Perry did in Texas as opposed to how Obama did in DC. I think that will be what beats Obama.

You make a very important point. Both Perry and Obama "inherited" a government structure and an economy from GWB, which should provide a valuable basis for comparison of the two and their respective governing philosophies and policy choices.

Obama cannot win that comparison, period, and that is why - provided the GOP is smart enough to hammer on that comparison relentlessly (unfortunately, as too many on this forum illustrate, the GOP seems prepared to disappoint once again) - Perry stands a much better chance of actually beating Obama than do any of the others, including flava-of-the-day Santorum.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Gov. Perry is right — Long past time to send the D.C. ruling class back to their states part of the year - get work and live under what they’ve wrought.

[Yaelle]

Socially the Ricks are very similar but record wise Perry has a very successful one to counter the eventual Obama argument that he “inherited Bush’s economy”.

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But perry would blow that excellent point trying to articulate it. He just can’t speak.