Jon Chait has a contrarian take on this week's GOP debate: The big question of tonight's Republican presidential debate was whether Rick Perry, cratering in the polls and facing a party Establishment starting to accept the inevitability of Mitt Romney, would survive. I think he...
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Rick Perry continues to long for the golden age of Hammer v. Dagenhart.
It's really tough to see how this could go wrong: Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said on Saturday that as president, he would consider sending American troops into Mexico to.
Prick Erry is, of course, also a radical anti-choice crank. But don't kid yourself, this will really hurt him among the two or three Tea Party voters who only care about fiscal issues.
I think I agree with Paul's interpretation of the clip of Perry babbling nonsense about sex ed. While I agree in general that Perry isn't very bright, I think in.
Shorter Rich Lowry: The primary reason liberals don't like a politician who argues that almost the entire modern federal state is unconstitutional, is a radical social reactionary, and blithely covers.
I am very angry with myself. About a year ago, I was in a Seattle bar with djw. We were talking about the 2012 Republican presidential season. I noted that I thought Rick Perry was going run. I was just finishing my 3 years living...
Shorter Rick Perry: "The Fed taking steps to help the economy would be so treasonous I might have to advocate secession again." It might seem obvious that this man cannot.
Now that he has made his intention to run official, Rick Perry should be considered one of the two frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. His selling points.
You will also remember this technique from Republican Supreme Court nominations, but apparently the new winger line is that it's a completely unfair smear to accurately quote Rick Perry's views. And, in a sense, it is! More on Perry in a bit... ...and, yes, his...
To reiterate, Rick Perry is if anything wingnuttier than Michelle Bachmann, and also isn't very bright. None of which will stop him from being cast by the media as the.
Of course in the contemporary GOP having a really bad college transcript is just a form of anti-intellectual street cred. (That C in gym would be a big problem for.