I have a theory about that. Whether due to cowardice and/or cold political calculation, I think the conservative big hitters didn't want to spend 24/7 fundraising to counter Mitt and his smear machine. If just one of this set: Palin, DeMint, Thune, etc. would have run, I think that the ABR vote which was probably 70-80% of the Republican voters would have coalesced around that person and wiped Romney off the map.
I think that Rick Perry underestimated how much he'd be affected by the painkillers for his back surgery. He might not be Winston Churchill in oratory but he's not that bad.
I think the ones that annoy me the most are the conservatives who have thrown in the towel and have just resigned themselves to Romney. Stand by your principles and take the fight to the convention. Romney hasn't clinched the nomination yet, so let's not surrender. Some things are worth standing up for and IMO, political conservatism is one of them. Some people who should be ashamed of themselves are handing over the keys to the Titanic to our modern-day Edward Smith.
I think that Rick Perry underestimated how much he’d be affected by the painkillers for his back surgery.
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I’m a native Texan. We’ve had Rick Perry in office, in some capacity, for 25 years; kept there by the GOP machine. Dude was dumb before he ever had back surgery.