Considering the pathetic state of the field of 2012 Republican presidential candidates, it’s probably no surprise that Texas governor Rick Perry is considering jumping into the race:

A Texas pol who is close to Perry has been telling a few key strategists that the nation’s longest-serving governor sees a vacuum and is waiting to be summoned into the race. This source believes that could happen by late summer. Without fellow Southerners Haley Barbour or Mike Huckabee in the race — and with Newt Gingrich’s early troubles raising further doubts about the current lineup — there could be a glaring niche for Perry to fill.

Perry is probably a more formidable candidate than, well, just about anybody else in the race on the Republican side. But he’s got a bunch of flaws that would be evident in the general election, including his railing against federal funds until he took federal funds. Also: A white state’s rights guy from Texas battling with a black man on the national stage is going to be all kinds of tricky.

13 replies on “Run, Rick, Run!”

  2. I hate Rick Perry so much that I can’t even think of anything clever to say about it. People often banter about how the world is run by sociopaths; I don’t think that’s true, but I’d be surprised if there weren’t at least some of them in various governments, and I’m pretty damn sure Perry is one.

    He really did accomplish something amazing, though, I’ll grant. Dubya was a hard act to follow, but Rick Perry managed to be an even worse Governor.

  3. Oh please, it doesn’t matter if republicans do racist shit, they can say they’re not racist and it’s apparently true because they said it.

  5. I’m glad they can tell themselves apart and identify “vacuums”. I can’t tell Republican candidates apart when I have only their words and platforms to go by.

  9. Sorry, but I don’t trust in Republicans vying against each other for the nomination. I think it has been decided amongst them and all this jostling is mere theater. At first, they bring out the clowns to entertain and then send in the star next to closing to save the day. Puppets all.

    The slimy cheeseballs who apparently run almost everything are more interested in replacing Obama than they are saving what was and should be America. They believe in a plutocracy where very few have all the money and the rest of us struggle in service and look on in envy and worship while entertaining ourselves with shit like Dancing with the Stars.

  12. Yeah I think the fact that he’s embraced secession-groups and even used heated secession rhetoric is going to be a tougher sell. How do you run for the office of the Presidency of a country you want to break from?

  13. If y’all think he was actually serious about that secession talk, you don’t understand Texas politics. Conservative Texans like to use secession like they use handguns: they keep them ostentatiously on display to make sure you stay intimidated and know your place. Rick Perry was never once sincere about courting the nominal secessionists, any more than the Republicans are sincere about pandering to the anti-tax idiots in the Tea Party.

    Liberal Texans sometimes do the same thing, that is, the intimidation bit. Witness LBJ and the way he used his “big gun”* to bully legislators into giving him his way.

    * – Yes, that is a euphemism for huge dong. Look it up.

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