By Walter Shapiro.
What Rick Perry has achieved in his inaugural strut on the political stage is unprecedented in the annals of modern conservative history from Barry Goldwater to Sarah Palin. It is not just that the Texas governor has dominated the news cycle, overshadowed the Iowa Straw Poll, vaulted over every GOP contender except Mitt Romney in the national polls, and reduced Karl Rove to sputtering frustration. All that is admittedly impressive for a first-time candidate whose name was familiar to only half of Republican voters just a few weeks ago. Because these leftists Hate him,
only makes me like him more and more.
Rick Perry has what it takes to make voters pay attention to what he has to say, and vote for him.
If Rick Perry wins the Republican nomination, then Obama is Toast. It's no wonder that the Obama camp is already trying to dig up dirt on him, and the Progressives are already writing those smears. Shades of Sarah Palin. . .