Re: 2012 election
21Perry's problem is that the rest of the country is not Texas. Having lived closehand though three Perry elections, here's his MO. First, he doesn't do debates. And now we can see why. In the Texas gubernatorial races, he generally agreed to one and only one debate. And it was usually something with very little press coverage that might be carried live on the local PBS stations at best. No one paid attention to them. Second, he knows his base well - but only in Texas. When the rest of the country was rolling their eyes thinking he was nuts for talking about Texas succession, people in Texas were eating that shit up like he was the second coming. I've never lived any place that had such a big ego trip of how special they were. Perry knows how to play that mentality like a fiddle, better than any Texas politician. But on the national stage, there's too many competing interests for something like that to work. USA is #1 will only get you so far, as the national press (pathetic as it is) actually will attempt to ask you some tough questions beyond "Why do you love America?" And third, Perry controls Texas because he's sucked up enough and done enough favors for all the corproate and pac interests there, even before he was governor. He hasn't been on the national stage long enough to do that on a larger scale. So yeah, he was the flavor of the month for a while because he was knew and seemed not completely insane. But it didn't last.
Just cut them up like regular chickens