The frontrunner has no clothes - Dana Milbank, Washington Post

[onehandle]

The applause identified Rick Perry as the crowd favorite when he took the stage in Tampa for Monday night’s Tea Party debate, greeting his lesser rivals as “fellas.”

But two hours later, those fellas – and a gal from Minnesota – had made some serious progress toward exposing the broad-shouldered Texas governor as an empty suit.

Sometimes they challenged Perry from the left (on Social Security and Medicare) and sometimes from the right (on immigration, taxes and mandatory vaccines), but it all came back to the same thing: The frontrunner was befuddled – seemingly stunned that his rivals would question his right to the Republican presidential nomination.

The lowest point for the man atop the polls came when Michele Bachmann accused Perry of cronyism, suggesting that he forced girls to receive the HPV anti-cancer vaccine because his former chief of staff was lobbying for the vaccine maker, Merck, which also “gave thousands of dollars in political donations to the governor.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-frontrunner-has-no-clothes/2011/09/13/gIQAUFOcOK_story.html?hpid=z3


The GOP base doesn't want 'substance' or a 'record'...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x771352

[Syrinx]

1. It seemed to me that Perry admitted that he could be bought

He was insulted by Bachmann's suggestion that he could be bought for only $5,000. The implication was clear as day.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. That's exactly the way I heard it, too!

"It takes a hell of a lot more than $5,000 to buy me!"

[Tesha]

3. As the old punchline goes:

"We've already established that; now we're just
haggling about the price."

Tesha

[Cosmocat]

4. Perry IS the republican party ...

People were all up in arms here last week - OH, saying SS is a ponzi scheme is TOO far, he is going to go down even with republicans.

Well, the polls show him having lost no ground over it.

People just are not getting it. The Rs don't care about the truth or integrity of what these morons say. Never have, never will. They ALWAYS vote against their own best interests, and do so completely confident that they are righteous in their opposition to the evil liberals.

Sorry, Perry is mean, angry, loud and relentless and bold in rejecting reality and facts - he IS the republican party in 2011.