“It isn’t hard to decipher who the establishment is pushing. No stories of how Perry can’t win. No polls saying Perry shouldn’t enter. No political pundits talking down his lack of education (non Ivy League School) or questioning his qualifications. All looks good, just like the favorable press John McCain received, until the campaign for the General Election began.”
Boy, did you ever nail that. Especially no comments about how shifty Perry’s soon-to-be staff is for leaving Gingrich en masse just before the caucus process was gearing up. Money in the bank that was set up to torpedo Newt, who has been touted as the owner of the best campaign staff connections in the 2012 race. Why not have your guy go get wired into that and then dump the candidate? Not that I wouldn’t throw Newt under a bus given the chance, but I sure wouldn’t do it to go work for Slick Rick, who’s almost as demonstrably conservative as Newt is. At least Newt attempted to make government more conservative—I can’t see where Perry has ever done so without simply following others’ leads.
BIG disconnect there: Newt and Nancy kissing on the couch and cuddling global warming and Newt's penchant for needing the spotlight -- because of that, the spotlight landed on his head during his roll out. Besides, he just isn't going to go the distance in a hard race. Newt has great ideas but he flits from one thing to another -- he loves ideas but wanders off, and his people have to direct his focus back to the matter at hand.