The Bushies are about to launch "Operation Perry"

[CatWoman]

this piece was written by John Ellis. Wasn't he the Bushie that worked at Fox News, and called Florida for Chimpy in 2000?

The Republican "establishment," such as it is, is quickly coming to the realization that the 2012 GOP presidential nomination is Texas Governor Rick Perry's to lose.

He leads in Iowa and he hasn't even really campaigned there yet. He's running second in New Hampshire, which is all he needs to do. And he's running comfortably ahead in South Carolina (again, without much campaigning), which is the gateway to the South.

The South is the base of the modern Republican Party. Perry has become, in less than a month, the Southern states' de facto favorite son.

Once Labor Day has passed, there will be five debates, in quick succession, on the GOP presidential candidates' calendars. These will be important tests for Perry. If at the end of two or three, it's clear that he's every bit the equal of Mitt Romney on matters of policy and politics, then the Perry juggernaut becomes all but unstoppable. Romney's "I'm the only electable one" argument will vanish and the party's base will nominate one of their own. If Perry stumbles badly in the debates, Romney's campaign gets a second wind.

Knowing that the only things standing between Perry and the GOP nomination are a couple of "good enough" debate performances, the GOP "establishment" faces a choice: they can cross their fingers and hope for the best or mount a sustained negative campaign to destroy Perry with the party's base. It is likely that, after Labor Day, a sustained negative campaign against Perry will be launched.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/rick-perry-is-a-lot-closer-to-the-2012-gop-presidential-nomination-than-you-think-2011-8#ixzz1WWmnv9zs

[MarianJack]

1. republicans and negative campaigns?

Who'da thunk it? :sarcasm:

PEACE!

[CoffeeCat]

2. I wonder what the background is here...

Why don't the Bushes like Perry? He's so much like their idiot son W, it is uncanny. Perry also
subscribes to their ultra-right neocon and religious crazy talk.

Why are the Bushies so against Perry? I guess Romney is their anointed one?

I also noticed today that a 1993 Perry letter to Hillary Clinton, praising her efforts to reform healthcare, was
released. We're ignorant if we fail to notice that the Clintons and the Bushes are part of the same nefarious
team of criminals who believes that they control the world and everything in it.

[gateley]

3. I was going to ask for some background, too. The conventional

wisdom is that he's persona non grata in the Bush circles, but do we know that for a fact? And why?

I HOPE they start running negative ads against him, they're far better at it than we are.

[trotsky]

4. I believe it's more of a Karl Rove thing.

Rove hates Perry and his political adviser. Old competitors or something.

[blogslut]

7. They have never liked him

He was their convenient tool. They see him as inelegant, uneducated and unreliable. All they wanted him for was as a placeholder so that when their precious son became president, there would still be a republican governor in Texas.

Perry is like the Lucifer to their God. He thinks he's a good as them but to the Bushies, he's nothing more than a pretty boy with a degree in masturbating bulls and inseminating cows.

[NYC Liberal]

9. Eliminating the competition for Jeb's 2016 campaign now rather than later.

You may think running another Bush is insane (it is), but never underestimate this country's lack of long-term memory.

[Yavin4]

5. Keep an Eye on Fox News

Roger Ailes is a Bush guy through and through. If Fox goes negative on Perry, then you know that the Bushies are going after him. If not, then Perry will be the nominee.

[jwirr]

6. Good they can spend their money on him which will give us more

for the other idiots.

[sufrommich]

8. Lots of flopsweat in the GOP about Perry. He's is a sure loser

in the general election, I think they think they would have a fighting chance with Romney,Perry not so much.

[Control-Z]

10. Perry seems like the bigger

threat in the general (imo).

[sufrommich]

14. I really don't think so, he's going to remind a lot of people

of Dubya in my opinion.

[demwing]

12. I think the Perry vs Romney battle serves us well, no matter who wins

It's basically a battle between George HW Bush, and George W Bush. Let them paint each other into their respective corners, and we demolish the one left standing - on the very traits he ran on to win the GOP Primary.

Obama is both more outsider-charismatic than Perry, and more-insider establishment than Romney.

My fear is a wild card candidate that we have not seen yet...

[sufrommich]

13. I agree. Although at this point I can't imagine what wild card

candidate could emerge from the GOP primaries,the inmates have taken over the asylum in the primaries.

[demwing]

16. Jebus H Bush

IOW, Jeb

[starroute]

11. They won't just go negative -- they'll be throwing around the real dirt

Rove and the Bushes know Texas politics through and through. They created Perry -- and you can be quite sure they know every one of the skeletons in his closet intimately.

If they're really determined to destroy him, they won't just be trying to make him look bad. They will come up with something devastating.

This is Karl Rove we're talking about, after all.

[dtexdem]

15. So the Bushies want to get rid of their Perry-anal abcess?

There, I needed to use that one somehow and this created the fistula that made it possible. ;-)