According to Washington Examiner- "The Rick Perry who has taken the stage in four Republican debates so far is a man who, for all his governing success in Texas, appears not to have thought enough about why he wants to be president of the United States and what he would do if he achieved his goal. When critics gently say that Perry's presentations have been "light on details," they're really saying Perry doesn't seem to have thought things through.  More than anything else, a lot of thinking should precede a run for president. There's no time to think about much of anything once the campaign begins, and there's no way a candidate can collect and organize a lifetime of experiences into a coherent approach to national issues once he's flying from stop to stop. A candidate has to have done his thinking long before he hits the road or steps on a debate stage."  Basically, Rick Perry is just another Mark Sanford.  The far-left is engaged in a party to party political war aimed at the destruction of personal freedom.  These elected republicans are poseurs at the core and the American people are now paying the political price.  The current elected republican leadership is not that "IN TO" their day jobs.  Conservatives need a determined and disciplined political leadership continuously studying the complete far-left narratives then practicing.  We need people who practice speaking in private, long before they open their pie holes on stage in front of TV cameras.  We need people who know what to say before they start speaking, employing effective communications strategies.  At the elected level, republicans have a bunch of intellectually lazy, hustlers who do not study the progressive narratives or the far-left political liturgy.  However, these frauds sure do know how to sit in a bible church and yammer about God and the Bible.  These elected republicans seem to never crack a far-left play book or practice their presentations.  Perry and those like him are the problem.  Clearly, Perry and his ilk do not yet understand that this country is engaged in a party-to-party political war over the preservation of personal freedom.  Never forget Ronald Reagan was a democrat for 25 years, voting for Franklin Delano Roosevelt four times, before Reagan made the destruction of leftism his life's goal.  This most recent crop of red-state republicans are a bunch of intellectually lazy, hustlers who can sit in a bible church all day, yammering about the Bible for hours; however, these same red-state republicans possess a border-line idiotic level of understanding of the political battle between constitutional republicanism and leftism.  None of these red-state republicans have made the destruction of leftism their life's goal because these republicans have been coasting along, being reelected to high-office in a center-right country, riding on Ronald Reagan's coattails for 31 years.  Bottom-line: The USA has a problem (33% of young people prefer socialism) because the last republican who could effectively communicate departed the White House 23 years ago.  

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