Romney’s getting hammered by Perry in the polls, so he’s reverting to a slimy tactic usually deployed only by Democrats—demagoguing Social Security. Tonight Perry responded by shoving it up his down his throat: Rather than trying to scare seniors like you’re doing … it’s time to have a legitimate conversation in this country about how to fix that program. [...]
Last week, I wrote a column for the American Spectator in which I suggested that, if Romney gets the GOP presidential nomination, he would spend much of his time defending his own record on jobs and health care. The following duel with Perry features Romney doing just that, but it won’t work against facts like this [...]
Ron Paul has released the following attack ad against Rick Perry, in which he depicts himself as a Reagan Republican and Perry as a Gore-supporting Democrat. Watch it and then I’ll explain how it exposes the essential hypocrisy of “Doctor No”: Did you notice how the ad shows shot after shot of the good doctor posing with Reagan [...]
Stanley Kurtz at NRO pronounces himself unpersuaded by my recent American Spectator column suggesting that Rick Perry would be a much better choice for the GOP presidential nomination than Mitt Romney: David Catron recently claimed that, while Perry can beat Obama, Romney cannot. While Catron makes some good points, I’m not persuaded. Even if Romney finds it [...]
Perry has far more credibility on jobs and health care than Romney can claim, and these two issues will dominate the presidential campaign. In my column, I compare their records and discuss the implications thereof: On jobs, Perry has a story to tell that Romney can’t hope to match. As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, ‘Some [...]
The GOP establishment is uncomfortable with Rick Perry. Few have openly attacked him, with the notable exception of Karl Rove, but it’s pretty obvious that most Republican insiders would rather have Romney than Perry as the GOP standard-bearer in 2012. Nonetheless Charles Krauthammer takes him very seriously: [Perry] has a simple message, which is: ‘Smaller [...]
