Guess Rick Perry's really feeling the pressure of the Santorum surge down there on the bottom because he's offering up a frothy mix of odd arguments, including a really annoying ad, in the final moments before Iowa caucus-goers send his dumb ass back to Texas:
Rick Perry kicked off his last full day of campaigning in Iowa today with a round of TV interviews that made one thing clear: he has his sights firmly trained on Rick Santorum in a last-minute attempt to woo Iowa evangelicals.
The sharpest element of Perry's multi-pronged attack came over electability. Going for the jugular on MSNBC's Morning Joe, the Texas governor noted that Santorum lost his 2006 Senate re-election bid in Pennsylvania by a wide margin. The unspoken point was that Perry has never lost a race.
"He got beat by 18 points in his last race," Perry said. "This guy has proven that he can't win races when it matters against a liberal Democrat. Rick is a fine man, but his rhetoric doesn't match up with his record at all."
Yeah. Um, Mr. Perry, sir? I'm not sure that electability is really your best argument:
And, as Josh Kraushaar at
National Journal points out:
But a closer look at the numbers should temper much of Perry's argument. Santorum actually won a larger percentage of the vote than Perry did in 2006 - and in a Democratic-leaning state, no less.
Oops.