re: #320 GeneJockey

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.

I think the right kind of idiocy could have been a net vote winner in a GOP primary in 2012, and is likely to be the wining strategy in the 2016 GOP primary.

Even though there are plenty of GOP voters who aren’t fans of open idiocy, they may be outnumbered by idiots in the GOP primary, and are likely to fall in line in the general out of tribal loyalty.