Good grief, I really like Perry and think it would be great if he ran for President - but it’s long past time for these waffling potential candidates to either get in the race or announce that they aren’t running this time around. All this dropping endless trial balloons, hinting they might run, teasing about future decisions, etc, is just tiring and annoying. This country is near bankrupt and spiraling down the crapper - we don’t have time for a bunch of political games. Get in the race or shut up about it.
Competitive people don’t like to lose, so they choose carefully when and if to compete.
Perry has NEVER lost an election, so you can bet dollars to donuts he is making sure he can win, before he decides to play.
I really can't understand that viewpoint. It is still 6 months before the first primary. I can remember when they never started campaigning before Labor Day. These 2-year long campaigns get really tiresome.
“Good grief, I really like Perry and think it would be great if he ran for President - but it’s long past time for these waffling potential candidates to either get in the race or announce that they aren’t running this time around. All this dropping endless trial balloons, hinting they might run, teasing about future decisions, etc, is just tiring and annoying. This country is near bankrupt and spiraling down the crapper - we don’t have time for a bunch of political games. Get in the race or shut up about it.”
Why?
I don’t think Perry is waffling here. And its not that easy to simply jump into the presidential race. Perry is doing everything he needs to do to lay the ground work. If he just jumped in, he’d be a one man band or have a limited, regional organization. He is going across the country to make sure people would be willing to set up an organization and donate in states where he doesn’t have an organization. He isn’t going back and forth on whether he wants to run—he’s simply determining if he’d have the tools to run.