Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Quote of the Day

"I think Rick Perry has a vastly better shot against Barack Obama than Mitt Romney. Of all the candidates running, I think he has one of the best shots..."

-Erick Erickson

I tend to be cynical. I doubt seriously that Erickson is really that stupid. I just think that his audience really is that stupid. And Erick is willing to tell obvious untruths in order push up those page views. The half-wits that read his crap have so completely insulated themselves from the outside world that they really do believe Rick Perry would be a formidable foe. If they really wanted to seek truth, they could start by looking at these Realclearpolitics poll averages and see that Rick Perry is getting destroyed by Obama. I mean, de-stroyed. Or, they could observe how the Obama campaign has not said one unkind word about Perry. I wonder why? Or they could click on the most recent PPP poll at Realclearpolitics (I chose PPP because it had the most favorable results for Perry) and notice that Perry's unfavorables are at 66% and his favorables are at 21%. So less than one out of every four Americans has a favorable opinion of Rick Perry. It seems as if all of those people must be posting at Red State.

Erick Erickson obviously doesn't believe in polls or empirical evidence. And he is right that Perry could turn this around. But he will only be able to turn it around to the extent that he becomes something that Erickson and his audience won't like -- a Republican focused on reaching undecideds and moderates (a candidate like Romney). It's a catch-22. 

Erick Erickson is a working man. He's got to put bread on the table just like the rest of us. But when he manipulates a large swath of ignorant Republican base voters, it affects the rest of us.

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4 comments:

WCOS said...

Very nice post. Love it.

Anonymous said...

I think you we being a little too kind in saying that Rick could turn it around....he enforces his own stereotype a little to convincingly.

Gordon

Terrye said...

This is just stupid...more and more of the rightie blogs and even a lot of the talk radio people are just making asses of themselves in this primary..

Teemu said...

(Communist)Red State actually had one of their main bloggers writing a blog post fully praising Newt Gingrich, Erick Erickson also praised it in one of his post, and now he is praising Perry's attack on Mitt Romney's street being Wall Street. Then in one other of his post he moans that the Republican candidates aren't passionate enough about free market system....

Then in one other post he suggest that Republicans should go with the payroll tax cuts and make them permanent. So where do you get the money to compensate for that revenue loss. Should we have people going on permanent holiday (retirement when you are still on in good health) on other people's money?

Red State is probably one of the lowest quality conservative blogs that have significant following out there.