America is “on fire” and need of help.
He must have gotten higher orders from Rove or Romney.
Main fire is 16 miles long and 6 miles wide and is one of 60 separate fires going on in Texas.
I bet he’ll look better at the command center than Obama did during Irene.
Prayers for Central Texas!
I’m not a Perry fan, by any means but I split my time between Indiana and New Mexico. Those fires are a big deal and that is where Perry needs to be.
for later
He’s in Myrtle Beach, SC right now. I hope this is wrong.
Living through this has been truly hellish and I’m one of the lucky ones. This is the worst disaster I have seen in my 67 years on earth. I just took photos of our house and the contents in case our house burns to the ground. Everything is a tinderbox waiting to go up in flames. We haven’t had any appreciable rain since May 21, 2011 where I live southwest of Tyler. Two years ago we had 55 inches. In 2001 we had 66 inches. This year we have had 10 inches and virtually everyday over 100. Today will probably be horrible with strong winds approaching and NO RAIN IN THE FORECAST FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 10 DAYS. This may not end until December. Texas is literally burning to the ground. Water supplies are exhausted and people are forced to flee or risk their lives to save their property. Over near Corcicanna it just barely missed blowing up a pipeline. That would have been huge. The main rail line was on fire including one of the bridges. What is Zero doing? He treats Texas like a red headed stepchild and expects votes for what? At least Perry is doing the right thing. I don’t know what he can do but it is more than the cipher in the WH is doing. Perry and our two senators asked that Texas be declared a natural disaster area as far back as April. Now it is 100 times worse. This is truly HELL!!!
Possum Kingdom lake got ravaged for the 2nd time this year (just west of DFW), and now East Texas fires are popping up right and left.
I hope those who are making the snide comments regarding the fires will do a quick search and see the photos of the devastation.
Did these fires just break-out? Is he personally going to be on the fire line cutting breaks? That is one lame-ass excuse!
Correct priorities on Gov. Perry’s part...
Thumbs up to Perry for getting his priorities straight...
I’m a Rick Perry supporter...But I think he is unprepared on “the issues”. The national and foreign issues. He is afraid of bungling an answer. Of giving the liberals a “gotcha” moment. So he’s skipping this debate. Perry is very busy as governor. He knows Texas backwards and forwards but not the rest of the country. Give him time to get edumacated and he’ll do just fine in debate and taking on Bammy Boy who he can whip by an easy 15 points
Mitt Romney has no day job so has lost of free time to study up. He is well versed in any question that might be thrown at him in this debate
Good for him. He is still Governor, he seems to remember that. Admirable.
It was OBVIOUS that Perry wasn’t even close to being ready for a debate. He’s just lucky as hell that the fires broke out in Texas to give him an excuse to bail.
...but then his entire political career has been made of pure luck - but I don’t think that can continue to hold up through the primary process...we have a way of weeding out the idiots.
bttt
Wasn’t this supposed to be the forum that Rep. Steve King is a part of and he and others were planning to slam Perry on his sanctuary policies? If so, I hope there is another shot at that. Perry is far out of the mainstream of Americans on this issue, and needs to either fight for those fringe beliefs, or explain how some of them may have changed.
Not criticising Perry in particular since it’s what big bosses do, but has anyone here ever been in a critical situation where having the big boss show up improved anything? Or did it just get all concerned looking over their shoulders?
Was looking forward to his participation in the forum, but it’s certainly understandable that he would immediately suspend the Presidential campaign and return to Texas asap in light of the situation. Good Luck and prayers to the folks down there.
I don’t see where he has a choice. Theres a crisis ,he’s in charge,so he has to return and deal with it. I have no idea why people are getting so worked up over Perry to say such hateful things about him all the time.