A Final Indignity Where the Crusade Began
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Year after year, the legend grew, in election night parties that always ended the same way — in victory.
But Rick Perry’s winning streak has finally come to its inglorious end, and the magnitude of the loss is easily as big as the almost 30 years of unbroken triumph.
On Thursday, when he announced his “strategic retreat” from the 2012 presidential race, Perry was standing in a plain conference room at a Hyatt hotel near the Charleston airport.
The Hyatt was a last-minute substitute for the luxurious and more expensive downtown Marriott, its cancellation a final ...
Comments (7)
Texas Bob
What is the Texas Tribune going to write about if Perry decides to lay low? There are other issues in Texas besides Perry's political future..
Samdavis
Shouldn't Perry's campaign have to reimburse the State of Texas for all they had to pay David Dewhurst and for all the extra security during this pathetic excuse for a campaign? It certainly did nothing to help the state's image; it only reenforced the image of stupidity and incompetence that was laid in place and firmly cemented during George Bush the lesser's time in DC.
I have no hope he will try to make amends for this debacle, after God told him to run and it's hard to argue with divine guidance, even when it's leading one off a cliff.
I agree with Texas Bob that there are many other issues facing Texas. The whole problem is that as long as Perry and the radical wing of the GOP and TEA Party are running the legislature and every state agency, very little will be done to steer our state in the right direction. It'll still be pro-business and to hell with the rest of citizens.
Jalapeno Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
How can the campaign of an inglorious simpleton not come to such an end?
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I certainly hope Texans are really dumb enough to elect this man as Gov. again. Yikes.
Jalapeno Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Shoulda been the City Dump!
Michael R. Wyatt via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And then his big endorsement of Gnewt got trumped by the ex-wife's salacious allegations. Pobre Ricky, can't even get quitting right.
Leon Drozd
There is a similar good story today at the Austin Statesman website:
http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/rick-perry/perry-campaign-hurt-by-internal-turmoil-2116438.html?viewAsSinglePage=true#.Txw0XG-KY4k.email
Political contributions seem to enrich a bunch of political hacks who work in staff and consultant positions. Their snouts are grounded to the money trail and who knows what all they promise as they move their candidate along the primrose path to fame and glory. Oh yes, those contributions keep the hotels, airlines and phone companies flush with cash.
Where are the days when people volunteered and candidates were in the news because they had something truly important to offer, not because they were pushing some contrived and vitriolic message to gain advantage with a particular voter group. .