It's time to play "Let's Speculate!" Rank the factors. Is this the right order?
He's the 10-year governor of a big state. She's a lower chambie.
He can point to job growth as governor.
He's a he. She's a she. Republicans are Archie Bunkers.
He timed his entrance well.
Another:
MONEY.
It's easy to attract big money for a primary campaign and the general election as a right-winger (he is not a conservative unless one wishes to use the word
conservative as a euphemism) if one has a strong record of supporting the usual backers of right-wing economic interests. Rick Perry can attract the money players in the GOP who want to make America safe for plutocracy. Having been a governor of a large state in which oil and agribusiness interests dominate political life financial interests are powerful, and offering the prospect of transferring Social Security and Medicare assets to the private sector, he is wish fulfillment to the financial interests of the GOP. Add to that, he seems likely to blunder into a war for profit that could be extremely lucrative. Ferociously anti-union, he would propose the evisceration of every union in America.
On social issues he is as pure a right-winger as one can be.
Liberals can see him as a stooge for Big Oil, agribusiness, the financial industry, and perhaps America's warmongers -- but he would be great for the bottom line for interests who lavish funds on right-wing interests. He would also secure the ignoramus vote of people who think evolution and global warming to be hoaxes. He will be hated. But who cares about that? 270 electoral votes will be enough. Can he get them?
