Make no mistake about it, there will be a Perry Offensive where we will hear endlessly about his “Texas Miracle.”
Indeed this very same offensive already started in Investor’s Business Daily in the Monday edition (which comes out on Saturday).
That they swooned all over him is not surprising but that they didn’t at least save it for the editorial page but rather eschewed any pretense of objectivity and lauded him on the front page as “the anti-Obama” who has created jobs and has low unemployment, etc due of course to his belief in small government, low taxes, and low regulation show just what a love affair this is gonna be.
Really we have 3 groups right now who want to decide the Republican primary: the social conservatives, the economic conservatives, and the Republican party’s operatives-from the RNC, etc.
As was clear by her blowout of the rest of the field in Iowa Saturday night, Bachman is loved by the social conservatives/religious Right. However Perry will be loved by them too now that he’s in.
The economic conservatives clearly prefer Perry who they hope if elected might give us the Ryan plan, etc. So expect the WSJ and IBD editorial pages(as we saw this weekend IBD even broke normal journalistic practice and didn’t even save it for the editorial page) to beat the drum about his “economic miracle.” Perry has an advantage then in being loved by both the social and economic conservatives no mean feat.
But thirdly there is the institional power of the GOP and they would much rather Romney as they know quite well neither Bachman or Perry is electable in the general election. Will be interesting to see who clearly has the balance of power in the GOP.
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