How did this guy ever get elected governor in Texas ? and twice ?
Well I just heard him tell Wolf Blitzer that he wouldn’t accept the vice presidential role on the Republican ticket because it isn’t “worth a bucket of warm spit”.
Well Rick, suppose you do get the nomination ? Who are you going to tap for your vice-president ?
What a fucking clown.
Three times.
But a lot of it was luck. He got the job without running the first time when Bush II went to the WH. Then got to run in a very good year for Republicans in 2002. In 2006, he probably would’ve lost but the opposition vote got split between a bunch of independents. Then in 2010 he had a strong primary challenger that would’ve defeated him any other year, but she was slightly to his left and 2010 wasn’t a good year to be even slightly moderate in a GOP primary race, so he won again.
ha ha, are you familiar with some of the people we elect down here?
Every time I see Perry answering a question from a reporter, interviewer or moderator, he looks as though he doesn’t even understand or believe a word of what he is saying and he hopes to dear God that his BS will be bought by his intended audience. He looks as though he is anticipating being called out for his true ignorance on the issues at any moment.
Well I thought Ann Richards was kind of cool. But ya, I was getting a sense of deja vu .
He’s quoting the popular, bowdlerized version of John Nance Garner’s comment. Garner was a Texas Congressman who became Speaker of the House and then ran as FDR’s vice president. Something that a Texas governor might know.
Considering that just about every vice president in history who didn’t become president has said exactly the same thing I can’t fault Perry on this. He’s completely right. Which is why the last couple of veeps have been older men who ended their careers in the position.
Interesting. so its just a cliche.
You didn’t think Perry had an original thought, did you? :eek:
I’m pretty sure that in one of the debates he suggested that his preferred option would be a Cain/Gingrich hybrid.
The Dems who’ve run against him have really been just the most generic and dull candidates possible. Kinky Friedman ran against him in 2006 as an Independant and was actually somewhat popular just because he had some semblance of a personality. He knew fuck all about any issues but the fact that he appeared to be an actual live human being got him a lot more attention than he deserved. If our Democratic party ever finds somebody with any kind of charisma Perry is out.
I’m not going to hold my breath.
It’s really easy to be republican governor of Texas. The democratic party is a joke statewide (they have actually been pretty successful in the cities the last few elections), the only real opposition is a motley rotating group of fellow republicans who don’t like republicans running the show. The republicans in power are fat, stupid, and yet strangely powerful.
Rick doesn’t even bother to participate in the gubernatorial debates. State officials recently re-gerrymandered the 36 US house districts so that 72% of the seats would be republican when only 55% of the state is. It required them to stretch the districts out so much that an (expected) change in the racial demographics of the state (i.e. more Hispanics) might topple the whole thing and accidentally turn the state blue.
Ricks failure on the national stage is just a reflection of how lazy and stupid the party as a whole has become in the state. With no opposition, they’ve gorged themselves till they are too fat to compete outside their base. Someday they may even get too lazy to compete in Texas.
Talk about a guy who can’t function without a teleprompter! Whenever I see this guy talk, it seems he can’t get 3 words out of his mouth before he has to pause and check his script. But everyone who meets hims says he’s a charming guy. I guess that goes a long way in Texas.
Those pauses are real funny, too, because it can be on something so obvious you have to wonder what’s going on in his brain: * As president I will… pauses as he looks at script… lower taxes!*
Well, I’d accept a VP nomination from Rick Perry. Middle-class salary, state-subsidized housing, a minimum of duties, doesn’t sound too bad.
Call me, Rick!
I’m always intrigued by some people’s definition of “middle.”
The VP makes $230,000 a year. According to the US Census Bureau, in 2010 there were 118.6 million households in the United States, and 4.6 million of those earned over $200,000. That means that, even if his or her spouse has no income at all, the VP’s income put the family in the top 4% of all American households.
It seems to me that any definition of “middle” that includes the top 4% of the population renders the term effectively useless.
I said middle-class, not** middle-income**.
Fine. Comfortable salary.