As much as I would like to hope otherwise, the answer to this question is NO (that is at least for 2012).
Which candidates other than Perry or Newt has shut up the media by not accepting their ambushes as a necessary part of the campaign. When Perry said “You got a name?” over and over he showed that he knows how to stand up to the media and that is going to be our biggest hurdle with Romney and Obama.
I think he can come back. I just hope people will stop trying to manipulate the election according to some vapid strategy and vote for the man they really want to be their President.
Why do you say that, Neil?
I mean everyone else has been up and down with no clear favorite, why not Rick Perry?
I like Perry but I still think he’d be massacred in any debate with Obama. And the vast middle “undecided” will be influenced by that