re: #60 The Ghost of a Flea

My superficially coherent theory is that Perry is aiming for the VP slot at this point: the party is going to saddle Romney (or perhaps Gingrich: his Catholicism is only slightly more tolerable than Romney’s Mormonism) with a bona-fide fundamentalist socon running mate, so he’s buffing those credentials.

The gop ran a punch line for VP last time. I don’t think they’ll make that mistake again…Perry would spend most of his time explaining the last dumb statement he made, and TX is already in the bag for the gop, so the geography doesn’t help them.

You’re right about Romney—he would need someone to balance out his far left raving liberalism, but I don’t think it will be Perry. If Newt is the nominee, all bets are off…he repackaged himself a few years back as an “evangelical Catholic” so he’s not as scary to the base as those Catholics who preach social justice, nonviolence, pacifism.