Usually in the eye of the beholder.
Your side had plenty of jackasses. You just didn't see them as such because they were YOUR jackasses.
I felt Perry's heart just wasn't into the run the way it had to be. We saw with Fred last time that you have to have the fire in the belly. I don't know why Perry got into the race, but he didn't want it bad enough. It's a sorry statement about what presidential primaries have become, but it's a fact nonetheless.
And Romney won by destroying all alternatives who did not destroy themselves. The GOP-E sat back and let him engage in scorched-earth politics. FR had little to do with the charred remains of the GOP field.
Perry was sadly not at the top of his game when the dice got rolled this time.
I still say his record is stellar compared to the others
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
He aint done