Establishments bite. Pro tip: There’s more than one establishment, and they’ve all got credibility problems. Texas politics, about as fluid as the Alamo, has produced with Rick Perry a candidate as accustomed to winning by mastering a fixed system as Mitt Romney, whose eastern-corridor acumen has rigor and discipline going for it but not popularity.
Americans are up in the air. Their world is sideways at best, upside-down at worst. No establishment — not the GOP old guard, not the Bush-era conservatives and not the neo-moderates — has sold the American people on its stewardship.
The moment belongs to the candidate who can jump into the midst of a mess and fix it on the fly — not because they’ve been groomed to do turnarounds, or because they love winning and understand timing, but because that’s the world they’ve come of political age within. Perry’s governorship began on December 21, 2000, Romney’s on January 3, 2003. Christie took office on January 19, 2010. Politically, he is a man of our time. That matters.
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