Does that count as quitting? Or just lying? Or both?
I wasn’t aware of that promise. Source? But if true, I would call it a lie. However, it won’t change my support of him. I’m glad he’s running and will sacrafice him for the greater good of our country.
Neither, it’s a calling to a more important position for the good of the entire country. Getting Obama out of Washington for good is a noble calling and Perry is ready to answer that call. Hopefully anyone who wins the Republican nomination will step up and authorize the moving vans to clean out 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Add to that a governor who runs for president should quit his job as governor when he runs for president.
So far Perry hasn't done that.
If Perry loses the nomination, he's still governor. If Perry loses to Obama, he's still governor. He has NOT "quit to run for President." He's been governor 10 years now. If somehow he becomes the 45th POTUS in 2013, he'd have been TX governor a dozen years when he "quits."
It's hard to compare his 12 years on the jobs with Gov. Palin who, only two years in, was ready to "quit" to be VP or leaving when she did before her first term naturally ended.
Let's consider some context as, frankly, the field throughout spring and summer had not produced a strong GOP candidate. A few expected to run chose not to. Sarah Palin did not step up.
Perry could do nothing and see if Romney can beat Obama or he can get in.
It must frustrate those who have depended entirely on Sarah Palin entering the 2012 race ever since McCain went down in flames back in 2008.
They're still waiting and hoping. And hoping and waiting. And, with nothing positive to say or do, some of them are running down the running candidates for sport whether they have the facts on their side or not.