TEXAS may be doing well, but that isn’t necessarily PERRY’s doing. Democrats believe in the cult of personality; Republicans both worship God AND elect leaders - without confusing the two.
Clinton’s America did well, too, after he was stopped from being effective by a Republican congress. We need evidence that Perry has done more than rubber-stamp an effective Republican state legislature to know that Perry deserves any credit.
So far, Perry seems to be an establishment candidate. The fact that he is being touted by John Lott speaks volumes. Only two candidates to the right of the establishment have won the Republican nomination in the past century: Goldwater and Reagan. Perry now replaces the unelectable Mitt Romney as the defender of the status quo, in the face of an electorate unsatisfied with the way things are.
“Clinton’s America did well, too, after he was stopped from being effective by a Republican congress. We need evidence that Perry has done more than rubber-stamp an effective Republican state legislature to know that Perry deserves any credit.”
Well said. And by the way, IMHO, Coolidge was probably our greatest president of the 20th century. My favorite Coolidge quote:
“There always have been, and probably always will be some who will feel that their own temporary interest may be furthered by betraying the interest of others...Their influence, whatever it may seem at a particular moment, is always ephemeral...They may at times somewhat retard and delay [the] progress [of the race], but in the end their opposition will be overcome. They have no permanent effect...The power of the spirit always prevails over the power of the flesh. These furnish us no justification for interfering with...freedom...because all freedom, though it may sometimes tend toward excesses, bears within it those remedies which will finally effect a cure for its own disorders.”
“Perry seems to be an establishment candidate. The fact that he is being touted by John Lott speaks volumes.”
Ugh? There are several errors in just these two sentences. 1) Perry is the establishment? Is that the reason why Karl Rove and others are attacking Perry?
2) I wasn’t supporting Perry. I hate to see people such as Krugman make inaccurate statements, and I wanted to correct the record.
3) Apparently, you think that I am part of the “establishment.” Well, possibly you could explain that to me. It would be interesting to have you justify that claim. From going after the issue of gun-free zones thirteen years ago, long before anyone else would touch the issue, to so many other points, for better or worse, I have often been first on an issue. Read my book Freedomnomics and please explain how it is “establishment.”