issue of immigration. they could regret that later, but for now they will take it. let me go to josh marshall. the idea that they are deciding who is going to be the republican nominee for president of the united states in these times when we re competing with russia on economics, with china on economics, brazil, the whole world, we have the toughest economic competition in our history, and it s going to get tougher and tougher and tougher to deal with these issues of a world labor market and resource depletion and everything that we have to deal with to be arguing over who cut my lawn when illegals i m sorry, undocumented workers cutting people s lawns is endemic, pandemic in this country in terms of people doing that kind of outdoor work. your thoughts. i thought it was ridiculous they talked about this stuff. this is a great debate if you re in the political news publishing business because it is like professional wrestling. going back to what howard said, i think it s even mo
perry went at him like a mad dog? a couple of things. first of all, perry s got to get back in the ball game. his numbers have been dropping. wants to be in the story and the surest way to get in the story is to attack the putative front-runner, which is is mitt romney, and rick perry wanted to establish control of the western division, conservative ranks challenging romney, pushing aside herman cain and everybody else, and that s what he managed to do. and the other thing that s going on is that now that romney is on the defensive on immigration, it takes the heat off rick perry for being on the defensive on immigration, and the dynamic of the whole thing is that candidates are leapfrogging each other to get to the right on the issue of immigration. they could regret that later, but for now they will take it. let me go to josh marshall. the idea that they are deciding who is going to be the republican nominee for president of the united states in these times when we re competing w
perry went at him like a mad dog? a couple of things. first of all, perry s got to get back in the ball game. his numbers have been dropping. wants to be in the story and the surest way to get in the story is attack the front-runner which is mitt romney, and rick perry wanted to establish control of the western division, conservative ranks challenging romney, pushing aside herman cain and everybody else, and that s what he managed to do. and the other thing that s going on is that now that romney is on the defensive on immigration, it takes the heat off rick perry for being on the defensive on immigration, and the dynamic of the whole thing is that candidates are leap-frogging each other to get to the right on the issue of immigration. they could regret that later, but for now they will take it. let me go to josh marshall. the idea that they are deciding who is going to be the republican nominee for president of the united states in these times when we re competing with russia on e