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Finds ‘Social Security as Ponzi scheme’ comment hard to walk back

Texas Governor Rick Perry entered this evenings GOP presidential debate the unofficial leader of the field, and left the stage wounded but hardly chastened. The Tea Party Express was (with CNN) co-sponsor of the event, so it was understandable that an inordinate amount of the debate focused on his paramount social security gaffe and on an endorsement and funds he earned from Merck by signing an executive order mandating inoculations for all Texas girls as young as six for a test vaccine which supposedly protects against cervical cancer. Texas mothers, flee for your lives!

Bachmann was a weak sister during the proceedings, offering nothing g new, but thankfully not having had to choose again between her God and her country.

It was definitely a tea party function. When Ron Paul was asked whether a man in a coma, having no insurance, should be allowed to die, Paul stammered for a bit, giving the the crowd the opportunity to rise en mass and answer for him, “Yes.”

Watch out, Medicare and social security. This crowd means business.

Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is quietly and very privately picking up the support of the GOP elite, leaving Rick Perry overexposed and perplexed as he tries to maneuver his bulk through the china shop. However, if he doesn’t do something quickly to bulk up on his IQ before the next big game, he could set a record for the time it takes for a major candidate to fall from first place to last. With Perry, one expects this sort of thing.

The real battle is yet to come. It will pit members of the Tea Party against GOP establishment for the heart of the Republican Party, and it will take place in some dark smokey room somewhere, probably not to be found even on pay-per-view. Would the party elites allow Rick Perry to represent them? No way. His chance of being allowed the nomination is only nominally better than Ron Paul’s. Romney has already been given the nod, and his way has already been fairly well greased. That would explain his caution so far in the debates. He’s a shoe in (ah, but for what?) unless he commits a real blunder, so he is wise to  run for now as an also-ran. It worked for McCain.

I believe someone wrote recently about a stalking horse candidacy possibly being prepared by the GOP elites. We know how they feel about the current crop of buffoons and Liberaltarians, and we know how they feel about the upstart Tea Party creating havoc in their name, not to mention spending down GOP coffers using party stationery. Let us assume that despite TV debates and much spilled ink, Romney has been preselected suspiciously early on by the party elites and pre-endorsed by the likes of Tim Pawlenty and Mike Huckabee for a reason.  Has he simply been selected this early in the proceedings in order to be carefully set up as the main fall guy in a plot to spring Jeb?

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

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