He's done.
An article about the debates with a twist that might surprise some people.
A new Zogby poll puts Herman Cain at the top of the Republican field, as the top choice of 28% of poll respondents. (IBOPE Zogby International says the polling sample consists of “all likely voters and of likely Republican primary voters.”)
Rounding out the top three are Rick Perry at 18%, and Mitt Romney at 17%. Fourth place goes to Ron Paul at 11%. Paul’s the most solid performer in Zogby’s polling history for the 2012 GOP race – his 11% might as well be chiseled in stone.
Interestingly, this poll was conducted after the Orlando GOP debate, but before Cain won the Florida straw poll. It’s a huge surge for Cain, who was polling at 12% just two weeks previously, and was floating at a campaign low of 8% two weeks before that. Aside from that bitter 8% number, Cain has generally done quite well in the Zogby poll, usually good enough for second or third place.
On the other hand, Rick Perry’s numbers in the Zogby poll have cratered, falling 19% in just two weeks. His debut last month was also his high-water mark thus far, when Zogby had him at 41%.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46473
Not really. His attacking conservatives does matter though.
We report---you decide.
<><> Perry’s debate answer WRT what he’d do if the White House phone rang at 3 AM......informing him that the Taliban had gotten control of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.
PERRY “Well, obviously, before you ever get to that point, you have to build a relationship in that region. And that’s one of the things that this administration has not done. Just yesterday we found out through Admiral Mullen that Haqqani has been involved with — and that’s the terrorist group directly associated with the Pakistani country — so to have a relationship with India, to make sure that India knows that they are an ally of the United States.”
Perry went on to tell a story about how the Obama administration wouldn’t sell upgraded F-16 fighters to India, which n-e-v-e-r happened.
<><> Perry was anticipating the triumphal moment when he would be able to nail Romney for being a flip-flopper---and had prepared for it. This was Perry's response: “I think Americans just don’t know sometimes which Mitt Romney they’re dealing with. Is it the Mitt Romney that was on the side of — against the Second Amendment before he was for the Second Amendment? Was it — was before — he was before the social programs from the standpoint of — he was for standing up for Roe versus Wade before he was against first — Roe versus Wade? Him — he was for Race to the Top. He’s for Obamacare and now he’s against it. I mean, we’ll wait until tomorrow and — and — and see which Mitt Romney we’re really talking to tonight.”
<><> Perry's candidacy-ending response was when he thumbed his nose at his country and its citizenry, saying those who disagreed with him on in-state tuition are "heartless." The inference was that only Perry was Truly Worthy (b/c only he had sucked up to Mexico).
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Summing up, it's true that the nation has elected incoherent Texans to the White House, but Perry alone has come up with THE dumbest non-sequiturs. It's likely Perry derailed b/c serious questions have been raised WRT whether he has the intellect to be president.
Perry has a complete lack of presidential gravitas — he has an odd way of responding to a debater, then cocking his head in an almost mechanical way, posing with a smug, self-satisfied grin (as if he had just paged through the vast holdings he's accumulated in Texas politics).
Perry ping
Can he recover? Of course, but if he had a bullseye on him before, he’s really going to have one on him now. This is a circular firing squad, after all. Whichever one rises to the top next knows exactly what is waiting for them. We don’t stop until all ours are wounded.
Any candidate that is stupid enough to fall for it is too stupid to be President because allowing yourself to be manipulated by the stooges in Big News only sets the stage for your Presidency.
His debate performance doesn’t matter to me. I didn’t want him in the first place. LOL
It was VERY unpopular and people were almost in revolution mode before it finally died. Same as Gaurdasil. Remember Perry was a Blue Dog Dem before he switched sides to save his skin. It's sorta like a Libertarian. You love them and love them, then they eventually talk about legalizing drugs and losing wars because Washington didn't want foreign entanglements.
Rick Perry’s underwhelming conservatism is what matters.
All we need is the good doc to announce, he’s dead Jim. Everyone else knows he is in free fall.
I donated money to Herman Cain’s campaign last night.