Rick Perry: ready or not

this is what you're getting from the mainstream media now:

Rick Perry: He's closer than you think - Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com: "It's becoming harder for Rick Perry critics to argue against this point, from John Ellis, at least as a benchmark heading into the fall debates and the in-earnest primary season:

The Republican "establishment," such as it is, is quickly coming to the realization that the 2012 GOP presidential nomination is Texas Governor Rick Perry's to lose."

US politics being as corrupt and bankrupt as it is, why should it be any surprise that rick perry is all but assured the GOP nod -- and up against the hapless barack obama will have no problem dispatching the latter.

i wonder how much politico is paying these clowns for this "insight"?