Posted on 09/11/2015 8:30:06 PM PDT by Silly
My buddy John alerted me to Rick Perry’s exit from the race today. He speculated that now Kasich’s numbers might “take off a little, if not big.” In his text was a quip about the remaining candidates: “good-bye before hello.”
For me, I never got a chance to say hello to Perry. Donald Trump was immediately more interesting than all of the other candidates put together. He didn’t have to use self-justifying rhetoric to establish his conservative bona fides. He just said amazing true things, bluntly and spontaneously, that we have long wished all rightwing politicians would say. Trump’s remarks have been memorable and witty, electrifying the base and framing the entire presidential race, not just the Republican side.
Rick Perry’s announcement was a litany of self-justification and conservative boilerplate. Unlike Trump’s off-the-cuff chatter, it was pre-packaged, overly-composed, and non-spontaneous. It sounded very much from his heart, but run through a processor to smooth out the grit and cover the bitterness of defeat. Trump speaks from the heart, but leaves in the crunchy granola, giving us something to chew on.
Instead, today Perry gave us pablum about his wife and his house and his kids and his dogs. If that’s what you’re gasping about after mile two of a marathon, maybe you should have trained harder or entered a 2k. He’s talking about sunsets and the real presidential race hasn’t even hit high noon.
Why couldn’t Perry just say he’s quitting? Why use a euphemism like “suspending,” as if there is a chance he will resume? He’s not hitting the pause button on his Netflix account or stopping his newspaper delivery while on vacation. He’s quitting. He failed.
Perry picked the wrong day to make this speech. He could easily have waited for September 12, and should have. Making his announcement on September 11 was thoughtless, and says little for a party and ideology that stand for fighting for our country when things get rough. Please allow us to think about 9/11 on 9/11, and come back when it’s over to drop out with grace.
I hear the Perry super PAC has a lot of money left that it is allowed to keep. What will be done with that money? Will it be used to fight Donald Trump? Because if it is, Trump can call off his pledge.
All of the success in Texas he trumpeted — and it seems rightly so — should have been bragged about more when he was campaigning. Guess what fellas: If you want to be president, you better make it all about you, because it’s you you’re selling, not conservatism.
There’s far too much to criticize about Perry’s speech. The worst parts were his swipes at Trump, which were frankly disloyal to the GOP, and not in the spirit of the pledge all the candidates took. Perry better prepare to vigorously stump for the Trump, and not stab the man that breathed life into presidential politics while fairly beating him at the game.
I've heard that it's for campaign spending purposes. He can still collect and spend money if the campaign is merely "suspended".
Did his glasses frame break and stop sending him
intelligence?
Yep, that was my thought, too. It’s dishonest use of language. And that money better not be used against Trump.
He’s better looking without glasses, and we need him to look his best when stumping for the Trump.
Bye Ricky, we hardly knew ya.
I felt like Perry had really stepped up his game since 2007 and he might have had a chance if not for the Don.
My thoughts exactly, and I’m not actually happy about it.
I just cannot bring myself to listen to the other candidates. I know that’s not necessarily a good thing, however, Trump is always fascinating and when I do hear candidates mention him, they have very little to say of substance.
Any candidate who wants to make news right now must mention Trump. But if a candidate wants to surprise people, they should be saying original things about Trump, with smart ideas that excite people. I don’t know anyone who is doing that.
GRTBR
It’s quite a phenomenon. Were the other candidates great, and Trump mega-great? Were they mediocre, and Trump is just competent? Were our standards so low that we couldn’t tell the GOP bench was unexciting?
Trump has done something truly amazing: He has re-charged and re-invigorated all sorts of discussion about all sorts of topics, and is opening up the tent til it’s bursting.
This election immigration is center stage.
Panderers who went to the council of La Raza and groveled before them won’t fly. Racial supremacist organizations are not okay. Not even Hispanic ones.
Good bye, La Raza Rick. Don’t ever come back.
I’m not sure I would go that far, but again, I know so little about any of the other candidates.
What would you say were Perry’s biggest flaws and worst failings? Perhaps a post-mortem is in order.
(And BTW, I had to look up that acronym.)
Overdue.
Wow, a surprise to hear that. If Perry’s drop out is overdue, what about Gilmore, Huckabee, Pataki, and others?
Hopefully they will all be out soon. As soon as they run out of other people’s money to waste.
“As soon as they run out of other people’s money to waste.” LOL!
Stopped reading right there.
Trump has no conservative bona fides.
All he has is some changed rhetoric that runs counter to his long record of having very liberal bona fides.
“Perry picked the wrong day to make this speech. He could easily have waited for September 12, and should have. Making his announcement on September 11 was thoughtless, and says little for a party and ideology that stand for fighting for our country when things get rough. Please allow us to think about 9/11 on 9/11, and come back when it’s over to drop out with grace”
I said this earlier. It was disgusting for him to disregard the significance of today for many people
I am disgusted. And if he was disrespectful because he is clueless and his team is clueless good riddance
He was governor of Texas on that day and bush was his former governor to whom he was lt governor
Disgusting
And if he doesn’t care about 9/11 because he is ... Oh well. He’s done
Lindsey graham is already out..... oh you mean the race for the gop nomination. ...
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