I like Perry as the candidate most likely to tear down the welfare state. Or make a good attempt at it. However, I shuddered when I read his comments attacking Romney about Bain capital. Gingrich backpedaled after his attack on Romney concerning Bain. I don’t know if Perry has. Lowered him in my estimation.
January 14, 2012: Jobs, jobs, jobs lure Perry backer
10/25/11 Perry calls on Romney to release tax returns
12/22/11 Romney says he wont release tax returns
1/11/12 Palin urges Romney to Release Tax Returns, Provide Proof he Created 100,000 Jobs at Bain Capital
Actually, Perry's comments were fair game, and so is Romney's involvement in Bain. If Romney has a good answer, let him bring it.
Is Bain a venture-capital firm bursting with turnaround expertise ..... or are they a vulture fund, asset-strippers and economic termites who cheat creditors and retirees of their due, and shareholders of their equity?
It's a fair question. I don't know what the answer is, but I think Rush, Hannity, and other conservatives who attacked Perry for raising the charge on largely top-down theoretical grounds ("we DO NOT as Republican conservatives EVER EVER EVER criticize anything businessmen do to put money in their pockets" seemed to be what Hannity was saying) is a huge strategic error. You cannot win at politics, defending maggots like Michael Milken, Boone Pickens, Ken Lay, and other access-capitalists, greenmailers, and asset-stripping, self-dealing chiselers.