I spent most the day driving across Utah and Colorado which means I get to listen to political analysis of the republican debate. On one hand people are saying Romney won because he talked about preserving social security and other people are saying Perry won because he came out swinging and gave a lot of red meat to the conservative base. From my perspective I think Perry won simply because people are talking about Perry and Romney and no one else and I don’t think Romney has ever had a chance in the primaries. Romney has a couple of insurmountable problems, first, he passed Romneycare, which seems a lot like Obamacare, and the tea-baggers
will never forgive him for that. Second, he is Mormon, and th
evangelicals that drive a lot of the republican primaries are never going
To let that go or trust him.
In other words it’s Rick Perry