Prairie Weather: Be scared of Rick Perry -- very scared

The Washington Post checks out Texas governor Rick Perry in Texas.?

What do seasoned Texas political reporters and analysts say about him?? Well, they say, y'all better watch out!

... Asked what non-Texans may understand least about Perry, McKinnon said: ?What they don?t know is that he?s probably much more tested than people think. He?s been through some very, very tough campaigns. He?s pretty battle-tested. The national scene is a different deal, but he is a vigorous, aggressive, disciplined campaigner ? and knuckles-out.?

He has never lost an election and as a Republican he has never hugged the center ? a potential problem in a general election but not in the primary of the current Republican Party. Instead he has developed near-perfect pitch with the party?s conservative base. He has what another Texan calls ?an instinctual read? on the Republican Party, something few people say about Romney.

Perry sounded the tea party?s bugle even before most people understood what a force that movement would become within the Republican Party. When he talked about secession back in 2009, Democrats saw it as a blunder by a lightweight. But it resonated with conservatives fed up with Washington. ...

... Many people may wonder whether the country, or the Republican Party, is ready for another Texan. Those who know Perry, however, say that he is not George W. Bush. It?s well known that there is little love between the Bush and Perry camps, but personal relationships aside, the two have approached governing in the Lone Star State with divergent styles.

?Bush by nature, in Texas, wanted to be a conciliator,? said one Texas strategist, who requested anonymity to give a candid assessment of Perry. ?I think he wanted to be somewhat bipartisan. I don?t think Perry?s particularly interested in those things. I don?t think he?s afraid to be partisan. I don?t think he?s afraid to be tough and mean when he has to.?

In other words, more of the same and worse.? We are the nation of Citizens United.? Which really means a country torn apart and, later this decade, put back together in a wholly different shape -- maybe by Governor "Good Hair" Perry, Michele Bachmann, or Mitt Romney.? Our current tin-soldier president -- in 2012 or 2016 -- will be replaced by the CEO of a wholly-owned subsidiary of corporate America.

Source: http://prairieweather.typepad.com/big_blue_stem/2011/08/be-scared-of-rick-perry-very-scared.html

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