# Rick Perry to jump into the race? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 28, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589 "2011-05-28T19:57:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/221 "2011-08-08T19:53:14Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > So, the speculation was that he’d officially announce his candidacy at his big prayer meeting, which has since come and gone. Did he in fact announce? If not, can we yet say that he’s not running? That was the old busted rumor. The [new hotness](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60884.html) rumor is that he’s announcing on Saturday, a few hours after the Ames straw poll. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/222 "2011-08-08T20:32:13Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > That was the old busted rumor. The [new hotness](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60884.html) rumor is that he’s announcing on Saturday, a few hours after the Ames straw poll. No, he’s not going to announce. He’s going to strongly signal his intention to announce. Later. Sometime. > [@](#): > > Texas Gov. Rick Perry will be joined by his family in South Carolina this weekend for a major speech in which he will strongly signal his intention to run for president, two GOP sources told CNN. This coyness gets on my nerves. Not just Perry’s, all of 'em. I understand that there are legal and campaign financing reasons for the coyness, but it still bugs me. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/223 "2011-08-08T22:03:39Z")
I think the idea behind testing the waters is a candidate can raise money and build a network, but the potential opponents don’t throw mud. Besides, there’s less time to flame out or for your message to get stale. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/224 "2011-08-08T23:31:01Z")
> [@](#): > > This coyness gets on my nerves. Not just Perry’s, all of 'em. I understand that there are legal and campaign financing reasons for the coyness, but it still bugs me. It would bug me, too, except that I’m beginning to think that he doesn’t and never did intend to run, and it’s just the media who’s running away with the story and looking for excuses to keep running with it. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/225 "2011-08-09T01:20:43Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > It was free and early on he had 8000 people. They bused them in from everywhere to pad attendance. It looks like he got about 30,000 (max) to show up. That sounds…underwhelming. High school football playoffs get higher [attendance](http://www.texas4asports.com/index.cgi?board=records&action=display&thread=94) than that in Texas. If that’s the kind of grassroots attention Perry can dredge up after months of publicity, it doesn’t seem to bode well for a potential campaign. Of course, scheduling an event in the middle of a Texas summer is probably not a good way to get people to show up. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/226 "2011-08-09T13:02:31Z")
Seriously, folks, Perry will announce [this Saturday](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60884.html). > [@](#): > > Rick Perry intends to use a speech in South Carolina on Saturday to make clear that he’s running for president, POLITICO has learned. > > According to two sources familiar with the plan, the Texas governor will remove any doubt about his White House intentions during his appearance at a RedState conference in Charleston. > > It’s uncertain whether Saturday will mark a formal declaration, but Perry’s decision to disclose his intentions the same day as the Ames straw poll — and then hours later make his first trip to New Hampshire — will send shock waves through the race and upend whatever results come out of the straw poll. Kay Bailey Hutchison [isn’t full of praise](http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/05/7265833-hutchison-balks-at-praising-perry): > [@](#): > > “Well he certainly has government experience,” Hutchison said. For a conservative, particularly one running for president, a long resume of government work is not necessarily a compliment one wants. > > Hutchison added that her preference is for leaders who have private experience, saying: “I’ve always felt like we need people who have really been in the private sector, as well and have actually created jobs.” > > In fact, for a politician with such an anti-government lean, Perry has spent nearly his whole career as a government official. He has worked in government for more than 27 consecutive years since being elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1984. If Perry is elected president, he will have served 28 consecutive years doing government work, longer than any candidate ever elected to the White House. Of course, she’d hoped to follow her career as “the less insane Texas Senator” by becoming Governor; Perry stood in her way. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/227 "2011-08-09T13:12:32Z")
Heh, that’s the best backhanded compliment I’ve heard all day from Hutchison. Clearly she’s not in Camp Perry. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/228 "2011-08-09T13:31:28Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Of course, scheduling an event in the middle of a Texas summer is probably not a good way to get people to show up. From what I read, though, it was a free event at an air conditioned stadium. It’s not like they had to suffer through the heat to bask in his Jeebusness. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/229 "2011-08-09T19:32:55Z")
I’m beginning to think that “This will be the perfect time for Perry to announce” will be this cycle’s “This is just the break the McCain campaign has been waiting for”. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/230 "2011-08-11T17:08:38Z")
Well, the rabble rousers at _The Texas Observer_ have created [The Perry Trail](http://www.texasobserver.org/the-perry-trail)–ready if he ever does announce… Lots of material, even if it is rather nauseating. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/231 "2011-08-13T05:42:40Z")
you know I was joking with friends that I hoped Perry ran so he would have to give up governorship of Texas. Need to watch what I wish for. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/232 "2011-08-13T20:01:20Z")
> **[Opinion: Rick Perry joins the GOP fray: 'This is gonna be a fun ride!'](https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/top-of-the-ticket/story/2011-08-13/opinion-rick-perry-joins-the-gop-fray-this-is-gonna-be-a-fun-ride)** > > This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. > [@](#): > > Rick Perry joins the GOP fray: ‘This is gonna be a fun ride!’ Yet another Texan that wants to take America for a ride… Yes, I do include LB Johnson for making Vietnam worse. And for Dubya it was even a war that was done by choice in Iraq, Should we expect WWIII now? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/233 "2011-08-13T20:05:29Z")
Jeb Bush has backed him. that should fire up some Repubs. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/234 "2011-08-14T02:38:21Z")
Hog barf! Perry’s just Fred Thompson Lite. I doubt that he will last through the Iowa Caucus. Crane ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/235 "2011-08-14T03:14:28Z")
I thought Fred Thompson was Fred Thompson Lite. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/236 "2011-08-14T03:30:56Z")
From what I’ve been seeing, it looks like Perry kind of pissed a lot of people off by stepping on the straw poll. He comes off like an entitled, self-important cunt. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the field handles him. I actually don’t know why people think Perry is that much more electable than Bachmann. He’s just as ideologically extreme, plus he has that secessionist baggage he’s going to have to explain. Bachmann would be the perfect person to call him on that. There’s also that innocent person he had executed, but the teabaggers couldn’t give less of a shit about killing innocent people. That would have to be a general election issue. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/237 "2011-08-14T04:05:15Z")
> [@](#): > > There’s also that innocent person he had executed Which one? And has he officially announced yet like everyone was saying he was going to, or are we now waiting for some other significant milestone for him to announce at? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/238 "2011-08-14T04:09:31Z")
Perry announced for President in the last couple of days. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/239 "2011-08-14T04:11:21Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Which one? [Cameron Todd Willingham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Todd_Willingham) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589/240 "2011-08-14T05:28:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Perry announced for President in the last couple of days. Really? As of yesterday, the word was “He’s definitely going to announce tomorrow”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-to-jump-into-the-race/583589.md?page=13)