printdust said:How can you say this? He's been re-elected twice in Texas.Ben_Hecht said:YankeeFan said:But, Perry's been in elected office a long time. In no way is he unacceptable.
In Texas, maybe . . . but a healthy portion of the Texas electorate doesn't have much use for the guy, and not only the Dems.
This is an old song . . .PArry will play in Texas (big towns, and small), Denver, Arizona, the Evangelical Midwest (hi, Iowa) and much of the heart o' Dixie. F education, F the middle class, F everybody who's not just like us? He's your guy.
But he makes the Bush/Romney old-time GOP veterans cringe. His nomination would radically energize casual, borderline Dems, who will crawl over ground glass to vote against him.
Easy. We're talking Texas, a state which elected W governor, only after the Familia greased the skids so he
could get the nom for one of the least-stressful governorships in the nation, so that the family could cease being embarrassed by the career failure (other than W's purchase of the Rangers, another family T-ball venture).