So far, Rick Perry is the invisible candidate.\u00a0 Just today there are reports that he is no longer able to pay his staff.\u00a0 Some in the media think the end is near.\u00a0 They could be right.\u00a0 They could also be very wrong.\u00a0 I am reminded that in the summer of 2007, the John McCain campaign was in meltdown.\u00a0 He was invisible in the polls.\u00a0 He stopped paying his staff and his top aides were deserting him.\u00a0 I was convinced that John McCain was done as a candidate for President.\u00a0 I was wrong.\u00a0 McCain ultimately won the nomination because it came down to three candidates, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and John McCain.\u00a0 While Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney rained on each other\u2019s parade, McCain snuck in the back door.\u00a0 He turned out to be a lousy nominee, but the point is that in the summer of 2007 no one, and I mean no one, even gave him a chance at the nomination.<\/p>\n
Perry has to do something, sooner rather than later, but he is not dead yet.\u00a0 This is the era of the Super Pac and while Perry\u2019s campaign has run out of money, the Super Pac supporting him has a ton of cash.\u00a0\u00a0 I firmly believe that of the seventeen candidates, at least 12 of them are wasting their time because they have zero chance of winning the nomination.\u00a0 I will start with Donald Trump.\u00a0 While he is soaring in the polls, it is only because the vote is being split 17 ways.\u00a0 At some point Donald will be up against only one or two opponents and then the negatives will take over.\u00a0 I doubt seriously that Trump can win this.\u00a0 I also doubt that any of the following can win the nomination, for a lot of reasons: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki, Rand Paul, and Rick Santorum.\u00a0 That leaves only five candidates with a realistic chance at being the next President.<\/p>\n
These are Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker.\u00a0 Right now Perry is gasping for air, but that is because the room is filled by 12 candidates with no real chance at the nomination sucking the air out of the room.\u00a0 No one seems to notice that Rick Perry has the most impressive resume in the room. \u00a0All anyone can remember is that he went brain dead on national TV.\u00a0 That is a huge mistake.\u00a0 Perry is a very capable man and has a very significant record of accomplished leadership.<\/p>\n
I really like Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Scot Walker, but in my personal opinion all of them are too young.\u00a0 Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are only 44 years old and Scott Walker is only 47.\u00a0 In eight years, the oldest of the group will only be 55. \u00a0What on earth does one done when he is done being President at age 55?\u00a0 Think Teddy Roosevelt and the disaster of the Bull Moose Party that put Woodrow Wilson in the White House.\u00a0 On the other hand, if they don\u2019t make it this time, they will still be young enough to try again in eight years and again in sixteen years. \u00a0As for Ted Cruz, I want him on the Supreme Court, not in the White House.<\/p>\n
I like John Kasich, but don\u2019t trust his conservative values.\u00a0 He looks too much like a RINO to me. He is just too willing to compromise. We cannot afford another Republican establishment candidate.\u00a0 \u00a0That leaves Rick Perry, who is 65.\u00a0 Perry has the right amount of experience, he has the right values, he is mean enough to do the job, and after eight years he will be at the right age to move on into retirement.\u00a0 I doubt that the voters will see it this way, but that is the way I see it.\u00a0 Right now, I just hope he stays in long enough for people to at least give him a fair consideration.<\/p>\n
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So far, Rick Perry is the invisible candidate.\u00a0 Just today there are reports that he is no longer able to pay his staff.\u00a0 Some in the media think the end is near.\u00a0 They could be right.\u00a0 They could also be … Continue reading