15 thoughts on “Rick Perry suspending campaign.”

  2. Eh. He had his chance. That his judgement allows him to think junior Barbour is his friend says enough.
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    “Oops.”

      1. Right. Zen of Lane: “Yell at the Dems.” From whom Perry, and to a lesser degree Trump, would have been a marked improvement.

  3. assuming the country regains its sanity to some extent he’ll be picked. somewhere. commerce. maybe defense. or or Greg will appoint him to take over the Senate seat for President Ted.

  4. He was frozen out of the first debate, he going to be frozen out of the second, he hasn’t managed to gain traction of any type, and shows no sign that that’s going to change.
    Oh, and he’s surrounded himself with scumbags like Schmidt and Barbour the lesser.
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    He tried to buy into the establishment, it didn’t work.
    He burned a lot of bridges in the attempt.
    Now, he’s without a natural constituency.
    You buys your ticket, and you takes your chances. He gambled, and found himself holding a losing hand. He could hold on for pride, but there’s no percentage in it. His best option is to fold and try for a cabinet position.
    Of course, that depends on Schmidt not stabbing him in the back… (Which I venture is the reason he’s only suspending his campaign, rather than officially sticking a fork in it. It allows him to keep Schmidt on the payroll, for leverage.)

  5. And Walker’s campaign is circling the drain too. Damn this cycle. Great candidates getting bad advise from consultants who just move on to the next campaign to wreck. How do these guys keep getting work?

    1. There’s a lack of oxygen in the room because Trump.
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      Thing is .. once Trump flames out, we’re going to be left with the seriously marginal – Huckabee, Santorum – and the self-promoters and book-sales types to choose from.
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      Perry flaming out is .. disappointing, but if Trump flames out soon, Walker and a couple others could roar to light.
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      We’ll see what happens.
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      Mew

      1. I know you’re assuming Trump’s going to flame out, but at this point I’m really not sure he will. I think what people misunderstand is the reason gaffes don’t affect his support. When Perry had his oops moment last cycle, really nobody outside of Texas really knew him, so the gaffe defined him to a lot of people and he was done. There’s probably not a single person in the USA that can get his opinion moved much by any particular gaffe.
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        And if you don’t think he can win, I have a few words for you. Governor Jesse “the Body” Ventura. Or how about the Governator Arnold schwarzenegger. Or even *shudder* Senator Al Franken.
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        Now, I’m not a Trump supporter (my preference at this point is Cruz), but seeing the Trump Derangement Syndrome at NRO has been quite amusing to me. I mean, we were force-fed a crap sandwich with McCain and then Romney and told to like it, and there’s not much more than a paper-width between the positions Trump claims to hold and those that Romney claimed to hold, and neither one has claimed to hold them very long. If Trump is too far and Romney wasn’t, then you’re voting against the man, not the positions. If we’re going to be stuck with that, then I say it’s good that the DC guys get the indigestion at the unpalatable thing they’re having to do at the polls this time around. I’d much rather have Cruz (or even most of the other candidates except for Grahamnesty, Kasich, Bush or Carson), but if I can’t? Screw ’em.

        1. So .. if neither of us believe politicians can be taken at their word, especially at this point in the cycle .. why do you assume I’m rejecting Trump based on his stated policy?
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          Because, y’see, I reject Trump, Cruz, Graham, Carson, and Fiorina – all for the same reason. *NOT ONE* has any more experience heading an executive government than Obama had in 2006.
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          I expect Trump to flame out because, while his blowhard schtick (and I take E.E.’s word, before their falling-out, that it’s a schtick..) is attracting those who are disgusted with D.C., it’s not serious.
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          At this point, in the last cycle, this very blog had posts by people who thought Newt Gingrich was doing great because he went after the moderators .. where is he today? People on this blog wrote positive things about Herman Cain because he had a plan and didn’t take crap, where’s he now?
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          No .. I think Trump will flame out because it’s September 2015. Most of the country aren’t paying attention yet .. and the folks who are can easily shift alliances once one or more of the others shift their tactics from attracting big-money to attracting actual support, eh?
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          Mew

          1. Oh, I don’t assume you’re rejecting him for that reason, my amusement stems from, say, Jonah Goldberg’s recent columns where he just can’t take Trump, and he more or less said it was because Trump was a fake conservative. But fake conservative clearly isn’t sufficient for him to forgo support – he supported Romney after all, whose conversion to conservatism was to me even less believable than Trump’s.
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            And yeah, it is September, but historically by January or so things have usually stabilized and you can tell who the eventual nominee is going to be. And I’m not sure I see that happening this year. What happens if we get to the convention with Trump with a plurality, but not enough to get the nomination outright? I can’t see him getting through the backroom deals.

          2. For me, it’s like hiring someone for a job.
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            Has this prospective person successfully worked in a related field? No? Not hiring … unless I’m prepared to do on-the-job training .. and the last POTUS we tried that with has, thus far, stunk on ice at Mt. McKinley.
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            It is September 2015 .. the general election is in 2016 .. over a year out. Most of the country isn’t interested until after the conventions…
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            Speaking of which, as you brought ’em up, remember that neither the Dems nor the GOP nomination procedures are purely based on voters – both give enough votes to other party members. (Dems call these “superdelegates”, not sure what the GOP equivalent word is)
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            The point to this is to prevent an actual “brokered convention” – it can’t really happen short of a major split in the “superdelegates” which just isn’t likely to favor an insurgent.
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            Trump needs to win *big* .. or he gets frozen out of any deal-making.
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            Mew

    2. If Walker was a great candidate. He wouldn’t be circling the drain.
      Pretty much all his wounds are self-inflicted.
      (Don’t get me wrong, I’m well aware that Jeb partisans are actively degenerating his chances in every channel they can access. But his stumbles are his own.)

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      Now, I have no doubt that he’s a good man, who would be a good President.
      But you’ve got to win the job to have the job.

      1. The Walker who’s shown up so far hasn’t been the Walker who went a’viking on the Wisconsin skirt-unions.**
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        Should that Walker show up .. could get interesting. If not, then ..
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        Mew

  6. I planned on voting for him before, and I plan on voting for him still.

    I have thoroughly enjoyed Trump making people go insane this early, but polls are non-binding resolutions. His support is a mile wide and an inch deep. For crying out loud, let’s have an election somewhere before we start giving up and flipping out.

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