Why Romney Slammed Perry So Hard —By David Corn

[NNN0LHI]

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/romney-perry-immigration-attack

—By David Corn
| Tue Oct. 18, 2011 7:47 PM PDT

You can always tell what a campaign thinks by whom it attacks.

At the Republican cluster-smackdown in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, the fists were flying. The evening started with Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum pouncing on Herman Cain. Then the others piled on in a Cain-bang. This was natural, given that Mr. 999er had vaulted over all the other second-tier candidates into first place in recent polls. They bashed his 999 scheme on various fronts, and, no doubt, Cain, though he took the blows good-naturedly, left with more chinks than when he arrived.

But the most interesting assaults of the night came from Mitt Romney—and they were aimed at Rick Perry. Again and again, he manhandled the Texas governor, who is in single-digits in recent voter surveys. Every time, Perry toke a poke at Romney—on jobs in Massachusetts, on using a gardening firm that hired undocumented immigrants, on whatever—Romney was ready for him and slammed him in response much more effectively.

This showed a few things.

[opihimoimoi]

1. The dustup had Mitt attacking like a female tiger guarding her kids...Poot Perry, out gunned, and

looked outwitted.....

Perry is Toast

Mitt will likey win the Nom...but...

Will he win the Oval??

The answer is NO...Mitt will NOT

[Ship of Fools]

2. But the question is: Will Mitt/Repub party STEAL the general election?

With all the voter suppression going on and a RW SCOTUS, my feeling is YES, they will!!!

[opihimoimoi]

3. They vill try but not this time....they vill fail utterly