Old Texas story lines resurface as Perry goes national
By: Keach Hagey
Politico.com
September 18, 2011 07:01 AM EDT
Hardly a day has passed since Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his presidential candidacy that Austin-based writer Jim Moore hasn’t found himself made up, miked up and holding forth to a national television audience.
Moore is the co-author, with Jason Stanford, of the forthcoming “Adios Mofo: Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush,” one of at least three new books about the Texas governor. Perry’s late entry into the presidential race has created a sudden hunger for information about a politician whose career has been spent away from the national stage - and Texas reporters have been more than ready to oblige.
The last time a Texas governor ran for president, out-of-state reporters went looking for scandal and controversy about George W. Bush and found mostly glowing accounts in the Texas media of his rapport with Democrats, passion for education reform and success at coming off like a “fairly normal” guy despite his blue blood pedigree - and that positive judgment was more less echoed by the national media.
“Bush could do no wrong,” recalled Paul Burka, who covered him for the Texas Monthly. “He just got a clean bill of health from the media, and that included us.”
(More here.)
Politico.com
September 18, 2011 07:01 AM EDT
Hardly a day has passed since Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his presidential candidacy that Austin-based writer Jim Moore hasn’t found himself made up, miked up and holding forth to a national television audience.
Moore is the co-author, with Jason Stanford, of the forthcoming “Adios Mofo: Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush,” one of at least three new books about the Texas governor. Perry’s late entry into the presidential race has created a sudden hunger for information about a politician whose career has been spent away from the national stage - and Texas reporters have been more than ready to oblige.
The last time a Texas governor ran for president, out-of-state reporters went looking for scandal and controversy about George W. Bush and found mostly glowing accounts in the Texas media of his rapport with Democrats, passion for education reform and success at coming off like a “fairly normal” guy despite his blue blood pedigree - and that positive judgment was more less echoed by the national media.
“Bush could do no wrong,” recalled Paul Burka, who covered him for the Texas Monthly. “He just got a clean bill of health from the media, and that included us.”
(More here.)
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