But they also said they welcomed the idea that Mr. Perry might emerge as a more compelling opponent in the weeks to come.
The most compelling opponent is Meir Dagan, who was the head of intelligence and special operations for the Mossad for more than eight years.
And the drug controversy may have even made Ortiz a more compelling opponent, by turning him into someone with whom Wilder has a score to settle, and by giving Wilder something to talk about.
While the argument in favor of same-sex marriage is compelling, its opponents have a point: while the legalistic view captures certain aspects of marriage, it is also limited.
Or Romney's victories may simply seem less compelling to his opponents than his liabilities; this week has brought a sustained, and arguably belated, interrogation of Romney's history at Bain Capital.
An anthrax scare that should have been a freak sidebar to 9/11 had been successfully manipulated to cement the case on Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction", make military action against Iraq compelling and isolate opponents of the war.
This, he says, is "pretty compelling".Opponents of capital punishment tend to respond by saying that juries, being human, err.
Australia were swarmed from the opening minute and struggled to counter their opponent's compelling mix of stingy defence and potent scoring, eventually going down 87-61 in a physical encounter.
Opponents say that compelling people to spend part of their income on something they may not want is an unwarranted intrusion by government.
Because Labor's reformist spirit is motivated by a hunger to lift living standards across the community, we have a compelling vision compared to our opponents' emphasis on the individual.
As the advertising entrepreneur John Kearon has argued, the public has to feel you are correct; the truth has to be sold as well as told; you have to capture the high ground with a brand that is more emotionally compelling than that of your opponents.
