Posted on 09/05/2015 3:01:49 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Rick Perry is not "getting out of the race" as Donald Trump suggested Thursday during a news conference.
"You know a broken clock is right once a day," Perry said. "The bottom line is I'm still here, I'm still workin'.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
No. He just doesn't know it yet.
Well, you should!
Make that Aggie Cheerleader !
He’s being paid by the GOPe to stick around through the Texas primary and he will do just that. Gotta splinter those votes so Jeb can win with 20%.
Same as Lindsey in South Carolina and Kasich in Ohio. They are being paid big bucks and Kasich has probably been promised the Jeb Veep in 2016 and sacrificial lamb position in 2020.
The story is, that the FEC rules are such, that if an individual declares, files all the documents, jumps through all the hoops and remains alive for a full year, they get a pretty nice chunk of change for doing it. I heard a figger of $400K. Is that correct?
Running hard like a car with no gas
Lots of details have been omitted from your description, and the $400k number is wrong.
http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/pubfund.shtml#anchor688095
they get a pretty nice chunk of change for doing it.
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I don’t know about the change they get but if your source is true then there is no wonder
so many have bothered to file the FEC Form 2 to get into the race. Apparently this maybe an
easy way to make some quick cash without a lot of effort.
Look at the list of current filers here:
http://www.fec.gov/press/resources/2016presidential_form2dt.shtml
“Only 37.7 behind Trump in Alabama - a very tight race, indeed...”
Put another way, for every person ready to vote for Perry, there are 126 people ready to vote for Trump.
Perry certainly needs to kick up his powers of persuasion a bit.
Actually, I read that on a thread here on FR about a week to 10 days ago. Someone queried why the Perrys and Santorums, et al would keep hanging on when they MUST know they don’t have a snowball’s chance. And the reply given, by someone who SOUNDED like they knew what they were talking about. If they were just Barak-ing, that’s their problem.
I basically like Rick Perry. I wish he would get out of the race as its getting a little embarrassing. We need to get this thing down to 4-5 candidates soon. Coalesce around one (Trump) and get on with defeating the Dems.
So said the Capitan of the Titanic.
Perry paid for vote splitter.
He may have been paid in job security vs cash but it still payment.
Once jbush is wiped out then the vote splitters cease to be of use.
Is trump ahead of all the other candidates COMBINED?
Actually he is in Alabama. LOL Trump 38. All others 36. Undecided 26...
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