Rick Perry, The Next President: Analysis and Projections

Rick Perry may just be the next President of the United States.

Last month I ran into Matt Keelen, who is the founder and President of the government affairs firm the Keelen Group, is a widely known and highly regarded lobbyist and political strategist and a reputation for consistently delivering hard-earned victories to clients. He suggested that Obama is beatable and can be beaten by the Republican nominee. Right now the Republican nominee is Mr. Generic, Mitt Romney, who would be the next President and would be a pretty good one I think if he were to win.

But many on the right- conservatives, Tea Partiers, libertarians- are unhappy with the thought of Romney as the candidate, and so have been restlessly searching for someone else to support. They've given Ron Paul some wind, they've given Hermain Cain a straw poll win, and lately they've wandered over to Michelle Bachman. But none of these candidates are really where these groups want to be- they're just waiting for the right candidate to challenge Romney. And that candidate is Rick Perry.

Rick Perry has the experience to match Romney, is more personable and has a good story, passes the 'beer test' better, seems to be a more authentic conservative, and flashes a libertarian streak every now and then. His entry into the race will change the poll numbers for everyone- all that anti-Romney support will coalesce around Perry, forcing the marginal candidates like Bachman and Cain and Huntsman out of the race, creating a Romney and Perry matchup, which Perry will win.

This will set up an Obama vs Perry contest for the President, and it is here where Republicans will be glad they choose Perry. Unlike McCain, Perry is not going to pull punches when he is fighting for freedom and liberty and the office of the President- Keelen said "he'll keep punching hard the whole fight." Obama will of course try to attack him as a 'Bush guy', but the stunner is that Perry isn't a 'Bush guy'- he and Bush are politically opposed and have butted heads many times in the past, so this attack, like most of what Obama does, will only work if you don't know the truth and eat up his lies.

In a general election, expect at worst a repeat of 2000 or 2004, with the numbers tight and Rick Perry winning by a slim margin, helped by recent reapportionment and redistricting, or at best, expect a landslide win by Perry and a mandate for change and new hope in the future.

The biggest threat to the Republican winning the Presidency is that a third party candidate or independent candidate will enter the race to the right of a Perry or Romney, and suck off enough votes from the conservative or running-as-conservative candidate to enable the progressive leftist to win another term of office and destroy our nation.

This is a good analysis, and I hope after the recent troubles that our nation has faced that it brightens your day!

UPDATE: Via memeorandum, I see that Rick Perry has made his official announcement that he is in the running to be the next President of the United States. Good luck sir!

Rick Perry is an author- check out some of his books like Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington, On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting for, or Hurricane Kitchen : How to Cook Healthy, Whole Foods for Large Groups and Institutions.