Dismissing the "new narrative" of Rick Perry's post-debate collapse, Erica Grieder distills his real weaknesses:
He explicitly rejects moderation and bipartisan behaviour, even though his behaviour is occasionally quite temperate, as on the tuition issue. This truculence is slightly unusual in a national politician, at least a winning one. Mr Perry's second major liability is that he has no record of leading people places they don't want to go, on politics or on policy. He usually doesn't even try. This isn't a thoroughgoing drawback in an elected leader—it forestalls crusading—but it does challenge his ability to form coalitions, electoral or otherwise.
Ed Morrissey wants Perry to "stop acting like a second-tier candidate and start acting like a frontrunner."
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