Being Sphincty material and winning a Sphincty aren't the same thing. We can ask the Sphincter himself to dilate on the subject later on, perhaps when he's done teaching teachers this weekend.
As for Perry, I think he has at least the potential to wipe out everyone in the R field except for Romney, who has the rump moderately-sane R contingent in his pocket since they've nowhere else to go. Won't worry about the ones who run on their own special sauce, like Ron Paul, but have ZERO chance of winning. Huntsman may stick around cuz he's a rich kid practicing for 2016 and a post-Tea Republicanism, and he may still nurture the faint hope that the gargantuans will destroy each other, and that 2016 may come four years ahead of time after all.
Romney being a maladroit flip-flop-flippery unmentionable, the True Conservative with executive, not to mention executioner, experience stands a chance for the nom, almost regardless of whether BHO looks more or less vulnerable. Once nom'd, he'd stand a chance of taking the whole thing just by principle of hazard.
Still think BHO would be the favorite, but even when Perry's being nice, he's mean, so could get very, very ugly.
Perry's got Jon Chait thinking of Woody Guthrie, too: http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/93585/what-does-rick-perry-believe
This reminds me of an old line of right-wing Christian thought that discouraged efforts to mend injustice and instead place faith in God. It was a notion mocked in the old radical song "The Preacher and the Slave":
Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;
But when asked how 'bout something to eat
They will answer in voices so sweet
Chorus
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die
Now, this isn't exactly what Perry is saying. His ideology seems to reflect the fusion between right-wing Christian thought and economic libertarianism, the market as the reflection of God's perfect plan.
@ fuster:
No, the real question is whether the rest of us qualify to join Texas and Perry under God's right hand.
Being Sphincty material and winning a Sphincty aren't the same thing. We can ask the Sphincter himself to dilate on the subject later on, perhaps when he's done teaching teachers this weekend.
As for Perry, I think he has at least the potential to wipe out everyone in the R field except for Romney, who has the rump moderately-sane R contingent in his pocket since they've nowhere else to go. Won't worry about the ones who run on their own special sauce, like Ron Paul, but have ZERO chance of winning. Huntsman may stick around cuz he's a rich kid practicing for 2016 and a post-Tea Republicanism, and he may still nurture the faint hope that the gargantuans will destroy each other, and that 2016 may come four years ahead of time after all.
Romney being a maladroit flip-flop-flippery unmentionable, the True Conservative with executive, not to mention executioner, experience stands a chance for the nom, almost regardless of whether BHO looks more or less vulnerable. Once nom'd, he'd stand a chance of taking the whole thing just by principle of hazard.
Still think BHO would be the favorite, but even when Perry's being nice, he's mean, so could get very, very ugly.
...am watching his announcement now.
He could win.
Perry's got Jon Chait thinking of Woody Guthrie, too: http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/93585/what-does-rick-perry-believe