Thursday, July 21, 2011

Prediction time: Governor Rick Perry...

...of Texas will announce for president soon, unite the tea party and establishment wings of the Republican Party, and win the GOP nomination in 2012.

And then ... Perry will get fewer votes against President Obama than John McCain did in 2008. That gun lovin', evangelical, tea party, Texas governor schtick just won't play with independents, particularly in the northern suburbs. And if Perry drags other Republican candidates down with him a la Barry Goldwater in 1964, look for the Republicans to engage in some serious soul-searching afterward.

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