That was the old busted rumor. The new hotness 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.
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.
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.
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.
It looks like he got about 30,000 (max) to show up. That sounds…underwhelming. High school football playoffs get higher attendance 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.
Seriously, folks, Perry will announce this Saturday.
Kay Bailey Hutchison isn’t full of praise:
Of course, she’d hoped to follow her career as “the less insane Texas Senator” by becoming Governor; Perry stood in her way.
Heh, that’s the best backhanded compliment I’ve heard all day from Hutchison. Clearly she’s not in Camp Perry.
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
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”.
Well, the rabble rousers at The Texas Observer have created The Perry Trail–ready if he ever does announce…
Lots of material, even if it is rather nauseating.
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.
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?
Jeb Bush has backed him. that should fire up some Repubs.
Hog barf!
Perry’s just Fred Thompson Lite. I doubt that he will last through the Iowa Caucus.
Crane
I thought Fred Thompson was Fred Thompson Lite.
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.
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?
Perry announced for President in the last couple of days.
Really? As of yesterday, the word was “He’s definitely going to announce tomorrow”.