If nothing is there, it is time to manufacture something.

…but I decided not to bother critiquing her work, inasmuch as no one else does.

And I have noted what everyone else probably has determined, namely, that the only readership @ the WPo appears to be to the left of BHO.

So, why bother exposing her extreme bias?

about this Andrew Ferguson before this article. It is really laughable to think and any particular person can make or break a candidate.

In a series of pieces on Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Jon Huntsman, he has systematically done in (or helped to do in) more Republican candidates than Think Progress, the New York Times and George Soros ever could.

Notice that Jen Rubin *implies* but never states that Rick Perry was the subject of an Andrew Ferguson hit job. She simply lumps him together with three other Republicans that Andrew has written articles on (not all of whom were the subject of hit jobs).

This falls in the category of “destroying your opponent without ever having to say anything bad about him.” Imply that he’s a slimeball, but don’t ever outright say it.

why so many on the right and the left, including the Romney campaign, are still so afraid of him? I guess they and most of us know the answer for this.

It’s right there in the quote: “He’s a governor of Texas.”

That’s right folks, you heard it here first: Rick Perry is, indeed, a Texan. As we all know, Texans just can’t win the Presidency. Especially not rural ones. Just ask the victorious President Barry Goldwater, who trounced LBJ in a record landslide. Or Gore, who trounced rural Texas impersonator George Bush in the 2000 elections. Just wait until the media finds out.

Bill Kristol and the Weekly Standard supported John McCain. Is there more we have to know? These are Statists who are good on foreign policy and that’s it. Weekly Standard are Bush Republicans.

Jen Rubin Bill Kristol Weekly Standard are all part of Washington NY northeast network of Know It All Pundits.

Moe Lane is the real deal and is more in touch with real America and not elitist, Statist America.

…another recent discussion of Rubin…
http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2011/11/18/kneel-before-romney-and-despair/#comment-10354
…that is also scathing [to her credibility].

{BTW, did I miss the “horse-race” column from EE that usually is uploaded @ Noon on Thursdays?}

Do we need elections by the people when we have pollsters and pundits to tell us what we think?

almost as much as he favors himself.

as the disillusioned dem visitor to RS, I thought Ferguson’s profiles of Huntsman, Barbour, and Daniels very thoughtful at the time. – whatever media echo focussed on their respective “heresies” could have come from anyone. I use RCP and news.google to find articles of interest to me, and occasionally the Weekly Standard pops up, as it did with these three profiles.

I used to love Jen Rubin at Commentary’s Contentions, but have been appalled by her morph since her migration to WaPo, especially on her so very obvious Romney-love, and more than bizarre Perry-hate.
I will spare readers here the inside-baseball on Israel, where Perry wins hands-down over Waffle Romney. The RJC must be going schizophrenic behind the curtains, especially when they know that Reagan won New York in 1980 with the Jewish (13%) and Catholic (49%) vote. Only Perry can do that in 2012..

The danger that Jen Rubin poses is that she has clearly affected her former colleagues at Commentary, who are now more openly piling on Perry, and Rubin somehow started popping up on CNN, which is where some of us are sometimes forced to dawdle depnding on the news cycle of the day.

One of my arcane hobbies is following “media echo”. After following everything-Perry since early August, my conclusion is that his single biggest (unfair) liability is overcoming the “dumber than W Texas cowboy” stereotype, which conflates with the “Southern white men are all racist” stereotype..
W was the fake Texan. College grades do not correlate to anything.
The other problem Perry has is the msm investment in Harvard-Yale credentials as somehow being correlated with superior intelligence.

BTW, my first look at Gov. Perry was in his Nov 2010 book tour interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. Perry was terrific – and so on point that Stewart was made speechless by Perry’s rapid response “Would you rather have a job in India or Texas?”

It is a weird time when the NYT is more balanced than the WaPo on Perry.

When I wrote “The RJC must be going schizophrenic behind the curtains, especially when they know that Reagan won New York in 1980 with the Jewish (13%) and Catholic (49%) vote.” I meant that 13% of New York voters in 2008 are Jewish, and it was most likely higher in 1980, the last decade of NYC out-migration. Today, I estimate more than half of that 13% is very angry with Obama on his claiming apartments in Jerusalem are “settlements”. It was a big factor in five Congressional contests in 2010, where incumbent Dems had to campaign, and criticize Obama publicly. McCain won Nassau and Rockland Counties – a big clue. Irish dems stayed home.

It will be even more contentious in 2012, if the NY GOP gets focussed.

Anyway, still does not explain Rubin’s Romney-love unless it has something to do with Mr. Saban. Inside baseball that I can only speculate about.

I do not give JRubin that much credit as to sway influence over her colleagues. From what I have read, she does work from her home while being a mom to two young boys, which begs the Q if she spends a great deal of time blogging from her bathroom as her thought process against Governor Perry is visceral and to the point that most of her well-strung sentences, while grammatically sound, do not reconcile in rational coherence to Governor Perry’s actual record, thus belonging in the trashcan, or in her case, the toilet.

Folks can say Texas dumb to infinity, as a Perry supporter and a native Texan, I know different. Use common sense and look at Texas and the environment that cultivates business success thanks in part to Governor Perry. It is that elitist mentality that is hurting America.

As an aside, I personally have not been affected by a down economy directly where I live, as a matter of fact I am a first time home buyer, thanks in part to Governor Perry’s deregulation policies of the oil industry. If Obama were Governor of Texas, I would not be a home owner. JRubin can criticize Perry until she gets to a point of regurgitated recycled talking points, probably paid for by the Romney campaign, but Perry’s record reconciles well with “Texas dumb” in my opinion.

One more thing, JRubin is no television personality, she does not translate well on my screen. While I find myself watching John King on a regular basis, looking for the voices of reason, Mary Matalin, Erick Erikson, it gives me a wince and a shudder whenever she pops up in the fray. I can equate the moment to an extended 3-5 minutes “oops”~