Is Rick Perry Running as the Liberal in the GOP Primary Field?

TexasMonthly ^ | 7 MAY 2015 | DAN SOLOMON

[ExCTCitizen]

I think Rick Perry would have been a good president in 2012, but I’m for Ted Cruz in 2016. My ticket. Ted Cruz/Scott Walker 2016.

[867V309]

I don’t think Perry can beat Boosh in the race to the left of Clinton. Texas vs. Connecticant.

[Impy]

Stay out, Ricky.

[bgill]

He has to get out of the case against him for withholding state allotted funds first.

[samtheman]

Perry knows he can’t get the nomination, I believe he will run in a lame attempt to hurt Cruz.

You are right. A very lame attempt.

There are many factors that will determine how well Cruz does in the primaries, but Perry isn't one of them.

I believe Perry is a good governor of Texas, but on the national stage he is definitely not a contender.

[basil]

Love it! Is this a pin one can buy?

[Finny]

Kinda hard to distinguish who's running as "the liberal" in a field of FIFTEEN Republicans officially declared, and that's not counting Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Chris Christie, Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, and Lindsay Graham. That would make it 21. Why not have Perry round it out to a nice 22? Let's have a real circus! We're Republicans!

Guess how many Democrats have declared for 2016?

Seven.

Cruz to victory.

[Finny]

I hope this link works: Declared candidates

[cripplecreek]

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[Impy]

Come come now Finny

“Skip Andrews” , “Kerry Bowers”, “Dale Christensen” “John Dummett, Jr.”, “Chris Hill”, “Michael Kinlaw”, “Michael Petyo”, and “Brian Russell” obviously don’t count. ;p.

And even the only actual entity in these bunch of people that no one has heard of, former IRS Commissioner and Red Cross President Mark Everson, doesn’t count either. When the odds are better that you could win the lottery jackpot twice in a row than get nominated, you don’t count.

Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Carly Fiornia, Ben Carson, and Mike Huckabee are the declared candidates. With Scott Walker and Jeb Bush fairly certain to run and a few others strongly considering.

[Finny]

So that's EIGHT "take 'em seriously" Republicans, some of them officially declared, some not, on the Republican side -- all others make it nearly two dozen, but nevermind, it's just the primaries.

Meanwhile, the opposition party operates it primaries thus: at this point, there are only SEVEN Democrats, and of those, ONE -- Clinton -- dominates the "take 'em seriously" category.

That tells me that Republicans are very, very confused as to who and what they are. At this stage of the game, Democrats have maybe three or four "serious" contenders in a declared field of 7 -- we've got EIGHT "serious" contenders in a declared field of 15 and likely field of 20-plus.

Doesn't that seem significant?

Really ... the Republican party is messed up.

[Impy]

Depending how you count:

In 2012 there were 12 candidates (including Pawlenty and McCotter who dropped out before the voting started)

In 2008 there were 8, including non-viable Alan Keyes.

in 2000 there were 6, not counting those who dropped out before he voting started.

8 in 1996.

7 in 1980.

We always have a lot of candidates, doesn’t mean anything. The exception was 1988, just 3 main candidates because VP Bush was obvious nominee.

The rats have obvious nominee Hillary, otherwise more people would be running. Sanders is in, Chafee. Webb and O’Malley looking at it.