---

The CNBC moderators proved themselves to be foolish democrats.  Harwood is normally dour and depressed but not last night in this clip, gleefully trying to bully conservatives.  Flashback VIDEO: CNBC GOP Debate Moderator John Harwood Blamed 'Crazy' Republicans for U.S. Debt Downgrade.  Perry's brain freeze during the CNBC GOP debate comes in part from trying too hard.  The liberal press at the state level has less power within red-states.  Once these red-state republicans are on the national stage, the liberal press is in full attack mode.  The lesson of Rick Perry's candidacy: "Think before you run."  Once someone like Perry is on the national stage it is too late to start being precise, sharp and on message.  Perry has had no problem naming those three departments every day for the last month; however, Perry has not thought continuously about his national messages for the last ten years.  For example, Newt Gingrich has been constantly thinking over many decades.  Under pressure on a national debate stage, it is too late for a good man like Perry to try to keep everything top of mind.  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.  Reagan knew both sides of the argument, easily staying two steps ahead of the liberal press.  This most recent crop of red-state republicans can sit in a bible church all day, yammering about God and the Bible for hours; however, these same red-state republicans possess a border-line idiotic level of understanding of liberal side of the argument in this political battle between constitutional republicanism and leftism.  For example, according to the American Thinker:  "Was Perry high at the Cornerstone speech?  Yes, very much so.  He was high on patriotism, high on faith, high on family, and high on his message.  He was the epitome of the comfortable conservative -- comfortable with his beliefs, comfortable with his audience, and comfortable with his message.  Continuing the campaign in a similar manner could well capture the nomination and the presidency.  Go, Rick."  Here's the problem - 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.  Being 'comfortable' with half of the argument, just the conservative-half, will not cut it in Obama's changed America.  For example, according to the 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. 

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/style_substance_perry_and_the_media.html#ixzz1dJrbbvAn

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7386800n
  
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/lesson-perrys-candidacy-think-you-run

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20111109043123.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6an4zSj8LhU