"Only you, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Gruber and Chris Wallace can prevent a GOP win."
Posted on 09/14/2015 9:08:15 AM PDT by italyconservative
Rick Perry dropping out of the 2016 presidential race is a damn shame. It's an indictment of Republican voters, who express a preference for entertainers and oddities, of the Republican Party apparatus that allowed Perry to languish at a "kid's table" debate, and the media institutions that spent more time talking about Donald Trump's hat than the success of governors.
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I think Rick Perry has reached the pinnacle of his competence and is fine as gov of TX. Personally I don’t think he’s that bright.
Awww, his candidate has been discarded. That makes everybody else stupid.
Proving the author is another GOPe / RINO / Rovian tool.
He doesn’t get it.
He failed now TWICE to generate any national enthusiasm. That doesn't knock his record as governor. It says he isn't viewed with trust by large number of voters as capable of fixing NATIONAL issues.
He just reminds me too much of W. Quiet & reserved. That KILLED US..NOT AGAIN.
Yes, quite unlike the Democrat front runner who is well-known for enduring and cleaning up her philandering husband's bimbo eruptions.
This is just pitiful. We are relegated to some putz’s opinion of how mistreated Perry was and how we don’t fit with his kooky idealization of the Republican Party? This guy, founder of “The Slurve?”
Who cares what he thinks? He should go out and try to meet a female, IMO....maybe he’ll get lucky.
If Michael Brendan Dougherty is right, and we’ve made a mistake, all I can say is:
OOPS!
Travesty? Damn Shame?
lololol
I like Rick. He was my governor, and except for a “oops” moment and his Gardasil goof-up, he was an OK governor.
But he reached his Peter Principle. And that’s that.
Good points and I agree.
Perry made one fatal flaw (and it wasn’t his forgetting the three things he’d do)
He underestimated how important the illegal alien issue is to American citizens.
I can guarantee if you he had said in 2012 what Trump is saying now about the issue, he would have been president and made Obama a one term president.
I always thought Perry was riding a wave he did nothing to create. Just like Mike Dukakis rode the economic boom that Massachusetts was having in the 1980s all the way to the Democrat nomination. Then the rest of the country saw him for the empty suit he actually was.
I pretty much agree that Rick Perry capped his political career as a governor.
I want to know why it’s a problem with the electorate when someone reaches their potential political potential at that level. We have 50 states, we don’t have 50 governors worthy of being President from any number of criteria.
I think Rick Perry shot himself in the foot fatally years ago on the national stage when he couldn’t name 3 agencies he’d close down. Stuff like that sticks with primary voters, that’s how I remember him on the proverbial national stage.
This is a doomsday presidential cycle for “real” politicians. We’re going to see this time, after time so get used to it every time one of them is forced out.
Just wait for the doomsday predictions when Bush bows out.
Agreed! This mantra is getting old. It will continue though. I’m tired of being strung along by these do-nothings!
I voted for him numerous times but when he said if I didn’t agree to educate illegal aliens I “ had no heart” I was through with him!!!
"Only you, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Gruber and Chris Wallace can prevent a GOP win."
Boom! Sadly, we can only imagine. I liked him last time around too.
>>I pretty much agree that Rick Perry capped his political career as a governor.
The idea of Governors as desirable candidates pretty much ended with Clinton and Bush.
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