Watching Perry schmooze with primary voters in Iowa, Will Wilkinson previews the right-wing attack on Perry:
Mr Perry is a big-spending, lobbyist-loving, Al Gore-supporting ex-Democrat who is all pork and no tricorne.
Michelle Malkin is incensed by his HPV vaccine decision:
While Perry and his campaign staff have now paid lip service to making a “mistake” in shoving the executive order down families’ throats, they remain defiant in defending the decree and Perry’s zealous, big government overreaching. From the latest story on Perry’s “reversal” in the Washington Post: “Perry campaign spokesman Mark Miner dismissed the criticism. Governor Perry has always stood on the side of protecting life, and that is what this issue was about…”
Oh, no it wasn’t. Please read this, get informed, pass it on, and make sure that you don’t fall for a purported cure to our political ills that’s worse than the power-grabbing disease in the current White House.
Nate Silver rounds up widespread conservative attacks on another front – electability:
The speech by Gov. Rick Perry of Texas to announce his presidential candidacy on Saturday got generally favorable reviews, but it did not take long for some influential Republicans to become overtly skeptical about what Mr. Perry might do for the party in November.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board lumped Mr. Perry into the same category as Michele Bachmann and questioned his appeal to swing voters. Karl Rove critiqued Mr. Perry’s impolitic remarks about the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke.
And in perhaps the clearest indication that the Republican establishment wants to hedge its bets against Mr. Perry, there were renewed calls for another heavyweight candidate — like Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin — to enter the race.
Jennifer Rubin piles on.
(Charts from a post on Pennsylvania for Palin retweeted by Sarah herself.)
The Dish 