Perry Rebound?

[NHI]

Thoughts?

[Mr. Taft Republican]

Hahaha not a chance.

[Debs Dewey]

He has the money to do it. Don't count him down and out. You can be surprised what 15 Million can do for you. What the biggest challenge will be wining Iowa if he does that and survives NH with a 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th showing (No one expects him to do well here but with momentum no one knows) then he can have are strong chance going into  SC.

[Paul Kemp]

Anyone can win Iowa right now.

[The_Texas_Libertarian]

Absolutely; he still has much safer conservative credentials than Romney or Cain.  His flat tax plan doesn't include a national sales tax.

[pbrower2a]

Crazy and cruel can succeed within the GOP so long as it enhances the power and greed of the moneyed elites. Some want the political system to represent economic power instead of the People, and for them, Rick Perry would be wish fulfillment.

He knows enough to keep his discussion limited to the talking points that Armey, Norquist, and Rove offer as the 'end of the discussion' which differentiates him from Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. For those who have the fantasy that the election of 2012 can resemble that of 1980 with Perry taking the role of Reagan and Obama that of Carter that sounds very good.

Could he defeat President Obama? No. But he can consolidate support within the GOP and win the support that a Republican most needs to get the nomination? Follow the money.

[Yelnoc]

No, he is dirty laundry.  If the Tea Party drops Cain, Gingrich is next in line.

[Torie]

Maybe if he can avoid ever personally appearing on the tube again.

[Eraserhead]

I'd be surprised.

["'Oeps!' De blunders van Rick Perry Indicted"]

The dogs don't like the food.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Maybe if he can avoid ever personally appearing on the tube again.

[Jacobtm]

He could, almost anyone could given the right narrative in the media.

Hell, they might be looking for a ''comeback kid'' right about now. They love using that phrase.

[Politico]

Yeah, he'll get a rebound after he stops giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants and develops the ability to formulate a coherent sentence. In other words, he's toast. But he'll spend a lot of money losing.

Here is what is going to happen: Romney is going to win NH, get DeMint's endorsement, win SC, and that's all she wrote. Paul may linger for Super Tuesday, but let's face it: At this point he's just laying the groundwork for his son down the road.

I strongly suspect the ticket is going to be Romney/DeMint. Listen to DeMint gush about Romney in 2008:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRsR0T7FkUw

DeMint is way too socially conservative for me, even though I live the same lifestyle as people like him, but that kind of guy with a southern accent is needed to shore up the base of the GOP. I cannot think of anybody else who would bring in the social conservatives and Tea Partiers like DeMint.

[Cobbler]

If Perry can improve himself in debates and do well in them, then definitely. His fall coincided with terrible performances, and if he can do better then I could easily see his campaign recovering.   

[GLPman]

He can, but he won't. If Cain implodes, I think the Cain supporters will flock to Gingrich.

[NHI]

I suppose the better question is:

Is Romney going to the be the nominee?

[Torie]

Sure Perry will probably get an uptick for his tax plan, until its rather fatal flaws are more fully explored. He was much better last night on O'Reilly making his little presentation than he was in any debate. He isn't going to be the nominee though. I am pretty confident now that the polls will consistently show him running considerably more poorly against Obama than Romney will be. Putting aside everything else (and there is a lot of "else), that should pretty much lock Perry out. 

[Averroës Nix]

For a long time, I thought that everyone was writing off Perry too early. But now, I'm almost convinced he's not a plausible nominee. He's too inarticulate and too gaffe-prone, and his mistakes have been piling up at an alarming rate (most recently, the birther comments).

Some have compared him to Fred Thompson, but I think that a Palin comparison might be more useful. To Perry's credit, he's a very successful politician in one of the nation's largest states. But at this point, I'm left wondering how he managed that, no matter how different national politics may from the politics in Texas.

So I won't unequivocally state that a Perry rebound is impossible, but it is difficult to imagine him pulling it off.