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Why doesn't America want such a great candidate? Texan GOPs loved him!
Stick a fork in me.....I'm done. Adios!!
a loser, a really dumb loser. Lobbying next? or ...
Ooops....he did it again.
Like he had a chance.
4 things
1. he's dumb
2. he's a fool
3. he's corrupt
4. and ... and .... I forget ???
Maddow destroyed him tonight, letting his video clips trash himself.
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Oops.
good riddance to smelly garbage
Rick Perry Meets His Alamo
Rick Perry — out!
The new glasses apparently didn’t do the trick.
The former governor of Texas threw in the towel on Friday and the
Republican race is now totally lacking in candidates who claimed to have shot a coyote while jogging.
His departure is a crushing blow for those of us who have already put in the time to read “Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America From Washington,” in which Perry announced that Americans were tired of being bossed around and being told “how much salt we can put on our food, what windows we can buy for our house” and “what kind of cars we can drive.”
I will not even have the opportunity to point out that Washington doesn’t actually tell us any of those things.
And now the loser debate on Wednesday will only feature four candidates, one of them George Pataki.
We make fun of presidential debates, for excellent reasons. But you will remember that at this time four years ago, Rick Perry was at the top of the polls. Way ahead of the pack. Then one “Oops” and an entire major-league political career was ruined forever.
Does anybody out there remember the answer he flubbed? If he became president he was going to cut back on the cabinet, eliminating education, commerce and, what was that? Oh, yes! — energy. The Department of Energy is still with us, but the presidential candidate is no more.
Adieu, Rick Perry, adieu.
“We have a tremendous field of candidates, probably the greatest group of men and women,” he overstated in his farewell address. “I step aside knowing our party is in good hands, as long as we listen to the grass roots, listen to the cause of conservatism.”
Just so long as the roots don’t vote for Donald Trump. Rick Perry really hates Donald Trump. And maybe this could be the start of a Trump downswing. Maybe if five or six other people quit, the voters will start to get focused and look at the polls like a homeowner waking up from a drunken bender and noticing a car in the living room.
As a presidential candidate in 2015, Perry’s only talent seemed to be getting money from very rich acquaintances. His political action committee still had cash, but it wasn’t allowed to coordinate with the candidate, or give his campaign any of its money. By the end Perry had no staff, and he was wandering like a Labrador retriever being pulled around by a helium balloon attached to his collar.
Now we’ll no longer have to wonder about whether it’d be cons utionally problematic to have a ticket composed of Rick Perry and Ted Cruz. Hehehehehe.
My favorite Perry memory is and always has been a 2010 interview he did when he was governor with Evan Smith of The Texas Tribune. Smith expressed some doubts about the state’s policy of strongly encouraging abstinence-only sex education in the public schools.
Perry insisted things were going great.
Smith pointed out that Texas had one of the worst rates of teenage pregnancy in the country.
“I’m just going to tell you from my own personal life. Abstinence works,” Perry said doggedly.
Always wanted to hear the back story on that one. Now I guess we’ll never know.
Perry was governor for 14 years — he inherited the job when George W. Bush got promoted — and his entire career as a presidential candidate was based on promising to do for the United States what he did for Texas. According to his telling, the state’s economic success was based entirely on low taxes and low regulation, as opposed to being a huge, underdeveloped chunk of the Sunbelt sitting on top of a mass of oil deposits.
When you look at a booming state and wonder why it’s doing so well, the answer is almost never the governor.
But Texas has certainly done better than most of the country when it comes to job growth. If that wasn’t good enough to get even a twitch of interest from the public this time around, what does it say about others in the field? Jeb Bush’s success in Florida was mainly about a real estate bubble and Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana … wow.
So Rick Perry’s gone for good. We will never have another chance to point out that he named his boots “Freedom” and “Liberty.”
We will never again hear him explain why he thinks it would be an excellent idea to eliminate the popular election of U.S. senators and let the great minds in the state legislatures do the choosing.
Although that could come up anyway. Several other candidates have the same conviction.
What a weird year.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/12...his-alamo.html
Why do I feel like we haven't seen the last of this moran...
"I like that man, and frankly, he tried". - Donald J. Trump
... say the huckster fraud
Ricky Bobs criminal trial update?
NPR reports one TX donor wants his $5M back from Perry Sooper Dooper PAC. proves yet again having a lot of money doesn't mean you're smart
Rick Perry was very in influential, he stayed governor long enough to salt the whole Texas government with his people. It was what like a 12 year run?
(sidebar: in 1988,Rick Perry was Al Gore's Texas Campaign Chair)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/u...ald-trump.htmlWhen President-elect Donald J. Trump offered Rick Perry the job of energy secretary five weeks ago, Mr. Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state.
In the days after, Mr. Perry, the former Texas governor, discovered that he would be no such thing — that in fact, if confirmed by the Senate, he would become the steward of a vast national security complex he knew almost nothing about, caring for the most fearsome weapons on the planet, the United States’ nuclear arsenal.
Trump ain't in' around this time, Winester.
Sounds about right. Perry was a ridiculous idiot.
But republicans love their candidates to have good hair
ing moron Republicans still don't know what the Department of Energy does.
NO BALDIES
STEP OFF, CALVO
"Rick Perry delivered his biggest fumble of the campaign to date when he failed to name the third agency he would eliminate if he were to become president during a Republican presidential debate in Rochester, Mich.
“It’s three agencies of government when I get there that are gone – Commerce, Education and the um, what’s the third one there? Let’s see. Oh five – Commerce, Education and the um, um,” Perry said.
Mitt Romney, standing two podiums to Perry’s right, offered the Environmental Protection Agency as a suggestion.
“EPA, there you go,” Perry said.
But then, the Texas governor quickly retracted his statement, saying the EPA doesn’t need to be eliminated but simply rebuilt.
Again, he tried to name the third mystery agency.
“But you can’t name the third one?” CNBC moderator John Harwood asked.
“The third agency of government I would do away with - the education, the uh, the commerce and let’s see. I can’t the third one. I can’t. Sorry Oops.”
The third agency Perry couldn’t think of was the Department of Energy, which he rails against on the stump nearly every day.
Perry finally remembered the third agency 15 minutes later after referring to his notes, saying “By the way, it was the Department of Energy I was talking about.”....
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...ment-of-energy
...nonetheless...off with their heads. Fodder for their State Unemployment Office.
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