Support for Rick Perry

  Ace's group has come out for Rick Perry. In a long, well reasoned essay, Ace explains why. Here's a bit of it:

Some people think that because the media stressed Obama's intellect in the last election, they will do so again, and thus it is important to have an intellectual like Gingrich as our standard-bearer. 

You don't the media very well if you accuse them of consistency. Let me suggest to you that if Gingrich is the nominee, the media will not be stressing intellect and brainpower (as, in their estimation, it's a draw). 

No. They will be stressing Obama's faithfulness to his wife and their two beautiful children. 

The media stresses whatever attribute the Democratic candidate trumps the Republican one in. In 1992 and 1996, the media ignored the virtue of military service in Republican nominees George Bush (the elder) and Bob Dole, and suggested it was relatively unimportant, championing the greater intellect and ideological flexibility of one William Jefferson Clinton, who, as you might remember, dodged the draft, using political connections to secure a higher draft number. 

And yet in 2000, Al Gore was sold as a "veteran" of Vietnam, while George W. Bush was portrayed as a draft-evader, and the same in 2004, when John Forbes Kerry announced that he was "reporting for duty." 

Dan Rather did a story about Bush's supposed failure to "report for duty" at the Texas Air National Guard.

  Ace says it's jobs, jobs, jobs.
  True.