Tuesday, July 19, 2011

On Intrade, Rick Perry...

...is rising fast while Michele Bachmann is dropping like a stone. Able to appeal to the Republican establishment and the tea party, the Texas governor might just overtake Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination. (Sorry, I just can't picture Romney making an acceptance speech at the convention in front of a crowd of adoring true believers. Can you?)

So imagine Rick Perry running against President Obama in 2012. If the candidate of Hope and Change crushed the stand-in for George Bush in 2008, how is an evangelical, tea party-sympathizing governor from Texas going to do any better? Won't this really be Obama-Bush redux?

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