re: #310 EPR-radar

I still don’t really understand why this happened. My best guess is that Perry’s moment of humanity on immigration is what really did him in, and his other issues provided cover for the xenophobia of the GOP base.

Because, like Fred Thompson, he was more appealing as an idea than as an actual person. IIRC, each of their poll numbers peaked around the time they announced, then dropped over the next month. By the time of ‘Education, Commerce, and … uh…”, he was already down with everyone else.

Perry’s problem is that he’s obviously an idiot. All he has to do is speak, and it becomes clear. Mind you, the immigration thing didn’t help, since it gave Mitt a chance to run to his right.