The fault with your analysis is that Rick dropped the grenade he fell on.
IOW, he did this to himself, by himself.
Well if we must risk a ‘12 disaster, it will never be because I won’t vote for our nominee. I will. Perry has some time to re-tool and bring a bigger gun to the primary campaign so I expect to see that. Otherwise, Cain, may be the only viable candidate to serve as the uniter between the Palin-Perry supporters, who will never vote for the other in the primary. That Game Over. As for the actual primary winner, I will be so all in.