In an interview with The Shark Tank, a Florida politics blog, Gov. Rick Perry said he would decide whether to run for re-election in June, and then make a decision on a presidential bid "sometime later in the year."
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Comments (37)
Felipe Gutierrez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
LOL!!!!! He might forget.
Debbie Mason via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Gov Perry we did not want you last time and we sure don't want you in the next Presidential election.Nor do we want you as Gov of Texas any more. You have showed us who are you time and again and no thank you. You stand for what the majority are against.
Kim Wilson Campbell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ugh!
Kathy Kennemer Genet via Texas Tribune on Facebook
arrogant fool
Christine Kearney via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He has 3 reasons to run: 1. He really wants to; 2. He thinks he can win; 3. ...wait, oh golly, OK, wait a minute, it'll come to him...he just can't remember the third one. ;-)
Steve Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Dummy, brain dead, excellent representative for the GOP
Cate Sitton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Oh, I hope he runs. He'll ruin what's left of his reputation.
Matt Treat via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The man is power hungry. He wants to be Governor again, and he wants to be President. The Latter will NEVER happen. The prior will probably happen, because the majority of Texans are either clueless or glutton for punishment.
Neil Moyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We pay for a fulltime Governor; if you run, resign!!
Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I guess he didn't learn the first time that the country doesn't want him.
Eric Young via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Oh christ. Moron might run again and embarrass the state?
Nancy Bryant via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Don't make me laugh!
Robert Rister via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Go, Perry, go! He's the perfect nominee for the GOP in 2016. (I'm a Democrat.) The secret is not have an injection of those buttocks fat stem cells in locations that can migrate to the brain in the weeks before a debate, no doubt.
Sydney Janes Berg via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Can he run without the states financial backing
Go back home out schools and state don't need you
Frank Kenisky via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Please run but do so with your own money and not the States money like you did last time. Please.
David Alan Turchen via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He will run because he's in a tight race with Ted Cruz over who is the biggest moron in Texas.
Sergio Jaramillo via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Lmao please run. It willl be nice to see him make a fool of himself
Martha Lampley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He should have to take a pee test first.
DeAnn Fisher Kiser via Texas Tribune on Facebook
GAG!
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hell yeah Rick. Run.
(That will finish the Republikkkan party once and for all)
Pun Nio via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ego is a terrible thing to waste.
Dave Beavers via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And once again, I won't vote for him.
The Republican party is dying a slow death. The future lies in the LP.
Marisa Brodie via Texas Tribune on Facebook
SPEW
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And at the taxpayers expense.
David Theis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
just run, rick, and keep on running.
Tom Sweazea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hell Rick....get that Sarah Palin woman to run with ya. You are just two peas in a very weird ass pod.
Terri Pooley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Lol!
Carolyn Bruton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Please no way..
Jo M. Pierce via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Well said, Terri
Susan Parker Mitchell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Oh no.
Mel de A via Texas Tribune on Facebook
God please save us! We do NOT need this man in office any where. Here in Texas or the WH. He is a black stain in Texas.
Weldon D. Glenn via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You said it Mel
Elizabeth Hart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Somebody stop the embarrassment, please.
Denise Allen Mitchell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Oh god....not again, please
Andrew Goldberg via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He's going to run for president in 2013? Sounds like GOP research to me
Dot Pate
I wont be voting for him after Gardisill, buying the Green Party ballot access, the fiasco of the last legislature when the TSA bill should have passed, toll roads, ad finitum! Perry should have enough money by now made off the backs of the Texas people!
We should have dumped him a long time ago...
Tim Hurst via Texas Tribune on Facebook
bahahahahaha. run ricky run