It 's Time to Buy Rick Perry Stock

The conventional wisdom is dumping hard on Rick Perry. Politico blared Friday, in the wake of his fumbling debate performance, that he might already be "Texas toast." This tells me now is exactly the time to buy Perry stock ……. …. The conventional counterargument, of course, is that the establishment will circle the wagons around Romney. ….. But I can mount a highly plausible counter-counterargument for why it may not ….. All we 've seen these past two years is establishment Republicans accepting one extreme demand after another. My case then extends to the question of who will make up the GOP primary electorate …. Henry Olsen of the American Enterprise Institute …… divides GOP primary voters into two camps-"dispositional conservatives" and "ideological conservatives ."…. Olsen writes that the GOP has always chosen the" next in line "candidate because most primary voters have been dispositionals, and he thinks that will hold this time. I 'm not as sure. The number of ideologicals has surely grown. If Olsen 's right, then Romney, a next-in-liner if ever there was one, is probably the guy. But if he 's wrong, then there ' s every reason to think this logic won 't necessarily hold. Lastly, my case hinges-and here 's the second reason I ' m buying Perry stock today-on the plainly observable fact …. …. Who can possibly really like Romney? He 's like your boss, or the regional supervisor who comes by the office a few times a year. You tolerate him and suck up to him, but the experience is completely phony and awkward. ……….. Perry? Well, I find him repugnant, of course, but I 'm an East Coast liberal. I 'm trying to look at this through others ' eyes. And I think he 's the kind of person Southerners in particular but conservatives everywhere, except maybe in the Northeast, can take a shine to. At least he seems to have some shards of personality. [Snip] (Excerpt) Read more at powerwall.msnbc.msn.com …