8/18/11
"Texas governor Rick Perry will win the Republican presidential nomination. I could be very wrong about this, but the modern history of Republican presidential politics vindicates the prediction.
Republican primary voters, along with the marketing-obsessed power elite driving the clown car, have historically flocked to candidates at every level who are just like Perry. (
See: Lil' Dumbya Bush) Not that Perry invented the paradigm, but he fits precisely into the well-crafted paper doll persona devised sometime around the era of Reagan's ascension
when wonky button-down conservatives began their slow extinction in favor of a new breed of crazy-eyed ideological poseurs and performers.
Republicans like dress-'em-up candidates. They like uninformed, twangy voiced, squinty, Steve Austin types who have no apprehensions about creepily dressing up in garish cowboy or fighter jock regalia. They're the political version of Renaissance Fair performers and Civil War re-enactors -- only,
Republicans are more effective at the ruse because voters are actually convinced the costumes are genuine."