Another Reason The Establishment (Republican And Democrat) Dislike Rick Perry

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Yesterday Investors.com posted an article about presidential candidate Rick Perry. Governor Perry is being attacked by a fairly wide variety of people, and it is kind of interesting to watch. Investors.com had some ideas as to why Governor Perry is seen as a threat by so many people.

The article reports:

Politico reports that “if Perry ends up as the Republican nominee for president, deep-pocketed trial lawyers intend to play a central role in the campaign to defeat him.”  Reporter Alexander Burns writes that “among litigators, there is no presidential candidate who inspires the same level of hatred — and fear — as Perry, an avowed opponent of the plaintiffs’ bar who has presided over several rounds of tort reform as governor.”

The article also points out that President Obama has publicly declared that he does not support caps on malpractice lawsuits. I’m sure it is just a coincidence that lawyers are the third largest contributors to Democrat party campaigns.

The article reminds us:

As Marc Ambinder pointed out in the Atlantic last year, “Seven of the last 11 major-party presidential candidates (Obama, Bush 43, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Bush 41, Dukakis), including all of the winners sans Ronald Reagan, have possessed an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard or Yale.”

Governor Perry is an implied threat to the grip the Ivy League has had on the White House in recent years. The article also cites examples of success in the business world by non-Ivy League businessmen such as Jack Welch of General Electric.

The article concludes:

Non-Ivy Leaguers such as Reagan and Welch often seem to be better at recognizing problems and bringing real change for the better. Maybe that’s why our elites are showing so much fear of an Aggie like Perry.

This is going to be an interesting election campaign. The question is, “Can a man from a less-than-privileged background become President?”

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