There was a caller who was just on The Randi Jones Show explaining why Rick Perry will become President. Listening to the person was eye opening, because while I felt his theory as to how he would become President seemed a bit like doing the same thing twice expecting a different result, the more I heard the conviction and certainty in his voice the more I was convinced he may have stumbled onto something.

I can see why liberals and progressives can dislike Perry. He does look and sound like Bush, a lot of his policies are like Bush, and he has a very shoot from the hip vibe about him. When you dig deeper into Perry you sense something that is so ultra conservative it has a feel of the early 80s with the Moral Majority.

What I see would be the appeal of Perry is many people want the shoot from the hip diplomacy with foreign and domestic situations. One of the complaints about Obama in the past few months have been he hasn't been aggressive with the Congress. Time and time again people have polled saying they want him to fight back, to be this stand tall sort of guy. I think a lot of people assumed while Obama walked and talked like Sidney Poitier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner he would transform into Chuck D. People now seem surprised he isn't the aggressive President. For the Right, Perry has that aggressive streak they like. He's their Captain Kirk with phasers set for kill.

Now, at the moment, Randi Jones is giving facts and statistics to how how Perry would be bad for the country, based on his record in Texas. The caller who she was just talking to admitted he was going to vote for Perry because of the feeling he had for the guy. It's the thing liberals overlook all the time. They go to the fight with a pile of facts and figures while the Right is going with emotions. Those people in Iowa, the South and the Midwest and other places across the country honestly are tired of the facts. I'm not saying they don't care about the country, but they are tired of feeling down, tired of looking at their lives and seeing nothing but misery. They don't care if that is the fact and will be the fact for the foreseeable future.

They want to hear there is a morning in America, they want to feel that America is a superpower and respected across the world, though they would never set foot in a foreign country. That's why if you watched the Iowa debate and when the candidates through out red meat to the public, like the government wastes money and they will tax YOUR money, the crowds cheered. The caller on the phone and many others don't want to hear facts.

This is what the country is up against, and it was the same feeling America had in the 1980 Presidential election. People looked around at the economy, saw the status we had in the world, and they didn't like it. They wanted someone to come around and tell them what they wanted to hear, that they were the best and brightest, the cream of the crop, the chosen ones. They elected Reagan over Carter. We're in a similar situation now, with Democrats disappointed with Obama because of his seemingly lack of strength, with the Republican candidates in the lead pushing an agenda that is nostalgic more than realistic, and a public with a short attention span willing to dance to the music of the Pied Piper, clicking away on their smartphone, and not paying attention to the cliffs they are heading for.