Romney’s plan to beat Perry - Marc A. Thiessen

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/romneys-plan-to-beat-perry/2011/08/29/gIQAKbaRnJ_story.html

Why should Romney attack Perry directly when the Democrats, the liberal media and Michele Bachmann will do it for him? Romney’s strategists note that Perry will have to survive five debates in six weeks — ample opportunity for Bachmann to “rip his eyes out” (as she did to Tim Pawlenty) or for Perry to blow himself up.

Keep in mind that Marc Thiessen is a massive douchebag and a card-carrying member of the conservative cynic class, formerly pumping whatever white evangelicals would believe in order to fund wars and keep taxes low. Now that the cynic class watches Rick Perry kick their guy into a coma, they started to attempt to thread a needle while in a full blown panic: how to defeat Rick Perry while not criticizing him. They managed to semi-marginalize Sister Sarah and Crazy Michele, but Perry is a freight train. How do they tear him down while attempting to appear to like him? Point out that he can never win. Exactly why they kept the John Birch wing in the back of the bus for so long.

Until now.