It looks as if some of the big blogs on the right have picked a candidate for 2012 and his name is Rick Perry.
Most of the core group of Red State writers laid out their case for the Texas Governor and while it’s not an official site endorsement, I’m not sure Erick Erickson would buck them to endorse someone else, though he is very much his own man. Here’s a bit of their piece.
If this website has a purpose – if any conservative website or publication has a purpose – it must begin with electing conservatives to significant public offices. We have the chance to nominate a conservative for president and win the White House in 2012. We can fumble that chance away by settling for a nominee we can't trust to pursue conservative policies in office, or we can make a stand for the best, most conservative potential president in the field. That's Rick Perry, and we enthusiastically endorse him to be the 45th President of the United States.
2012 is a year of enormous opportunity for conservatives. The sitting president is deeply unpopular and discredited, the economy is mired in the doldrums, and the public's trust in Washington and its traditional ways is at an all-time low. Tea Party-backed conservative successes in 2010 show that the public is willing to embrace candidates who dissent from the bipartisan consensus – a consensus that gives us an ever-growing federal government in general and too much federal interference and favoritism in the economy in particular. President Obama's deep unpopularity with independents, together with the growth of left-wing populist protest movements, shows that dissatisfaction with the status quo reaches far beyond the conservative base. But the failure of some Tea Party conservatives in 2010 is also a reminder that to win, we need candidates who are serious, experienced, and battle-tested. That's Rick Perry.
Ace and his co-bloggers also endorsed Perry.
Gingrich and Romney may be smarter than Perry, and perhaps Romney would even be a more skilled technocratic administrator of government. (Gingrich seems far too disorganized and flighty to engage with this part of the job too much, apart from proposing bold, fundamental changes and then moving on to something else.)
But I don’t want someone who is so confident that he is a more capable administrator of federal power. I want someone who is skeptical of federal power no matter who wields it, no matter how skilled and able an administrator he might be, even if that administrator is he himself, and so always prefers to shunt power away from the government to to the states, and their citizens.
Those are the four things Perry seems committed too. Those are the four ideas he has.
Perhaps he’s not smart enough to have more ideas than that.
Which is fine with me. I don’t want a President with many more ideas than that.
That’s how we got here, after all.
So did Mike Flynn, editor of the Big Government site. His endorsement is not an official site endorsement either, but it will carry a great deal of weight.
Over the next few years, America will face some existential questions. Will American exceptionalism endure or will we slip into a quasi-European welfare state in permanent decline? Our present trajectory is unsustainable. Even with a Republican House and, most likely, a Republican Senate after next year, the GOP in Washington doesn't seem quite up to the task of reclaiming that "shining city on the hill." They can't quite get beyond repainting a house whose foundation has cracked. We will need a President who is a strong leader with very grounded conservative convictions to navigate our way back to prosperity. One who understand that Washington has already assumed too much power and that future economic growth and personal liberty requires rolling back much of that power.
Rick Perry is that man.
So there you go. Rick Perry has some serious new media horsepower behind him. Those blogs account get hundreds of thousands,of page views among them every day and their messages will reach a lot of grassroots conservatives and Tea Party faithful. Perry will need every one of those folks to turn out as volunteers and donors to beat the GOP’s hand-picked star, Mitt Romney.
Good for him. He needs the backup. I’m not a great fan, but I wish him luck.
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