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Rick Perry's campaign fell hard and fast in 2012
Austin Chronicle 1/27/12
Rick Perry's campaign fell hard and fast in 2012
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1) Iowa Owie: If the Jan. 3 Iowa caucus used Texas school accountability standards, count Perry as "Presidentially Unacceptable." He limped over the line in fifth place with 10.3% in a state where he had been leading in August.
2) Will You, Won't You?: After his Iowa drubbing, rumors were circulating that his staff were sitting in bars as if the campaign were already over, and Perry himself was telling everyone he would decamp to Texas to consider his options. Instead, he just went for a jog and decided, yup, he was staying in for the long haul – which turned out to be a grand total of 16 days.
3) Iraq the Third: What's a Texas Republican presidential hopeful without a Gulf War? At the Jan. 7 ABC debate, Perry announced that he would send troops back into Iraq. Really, he actually said that.
4) No, No, New Hampshire: Accepting that the Northeast was always stony ground for his brand of good ol' boyism, Perry announced he was bypassing the Granite State's Jan. 10 vote and heading straight to South Carolina, which he declared to be his Alamo. The result? A mortifying 0.7% showing in the nation's first primary.
5) Perfect, Immobile Hair: On a Jan. 13 trip to the Squat 'n' Gobble in Bluffton, S.C., the governor seemed to take a question from a store mannequin. There was back-and-forth among the press whether Perry was joking or not, but the discussion just proved that no one took him seriously.
Rick Perry's campaign fell hard and fast in 2012
(snip)
1) Iowa Owie: If the Jan. 3 Iowa caucus used Texas school accountability standards, count Perry as "Presidentially Unacceptable." He limped over the line in fifth place with 10.3% in a state where he had been leading in August.
2) Will You, Won't You?: After his Iowa drubbing, rumors were circulating that his staff were sitting in bars as if the campaign were already over, and Perry himself was telling everyone he would decamp to Texas to consider his options. Instead, he just went for a jog and decided, yup, he was staying in for the long haul – which turned out to be a grand total of 16 days.
3) Iraq the Third: What's a Texas Republican presidential hopeful without a Gulf War? At the Jan. 7 ABC debate, Perry announced that he would send troops back into Iraq. Really, he actually said that.
4) No, No, New Hampshire: Accepting that the Northeast was always stony ground for his brand of good ol' boyism, Perry announced he was bypassing the Granite State's Jan. 10 vote and heading straight to South Carolina, which he declared to be his Alamo. The result? A mortifying 0.7% showing in the nation's first primary.
5) Perfect, Immobile Hair: On a Jan. 13 trip to the Squat 'n' Gobble in Bluffton, S.C., the governor seemed to take a question from a store mannequin. There was back-and-forth among the press whether Perry was joking or not, but the discussion just proved that no one took him seriously.
Oh damn I do sure love making fun of Perry. That's the only thing I will miss about his huge national landslide failure.
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Austin Chronicle 1/27/12
Perry hands the torch to a kindred spirit
There aren't too many good ways to admit you committed the fatal turnovers and lost the big game.
Saying farewell to his bungled presidential campaign, Gov. Rick Perry called on (in order) Newt Gingrich, God, and Sam Houston, and suggested his national embarrassment might be only temporary. "As a Texan, I have never shied away from a good fight, especially when the cause was right," Perry said. "But as someone who has always admired a great Texas forefather – Sam Houston – I know when it is time for a 'strategic retreat.'" In fact, Perry hadn't known that at all. He first decided to quit the race after the debacle in Iowa, then undecided (reportedly after a morning jog and a family chat), then vowed to fight on through South Carolina (while ignoring New Hampshire, which returned the favor), then redecided that South Carolina wasn't worth the good fight after all.
Somehow, I don't think that's the way Gen. Houston would have played it.
Perry hands the torch to a kindred spirit
There aren't too many good ways to admit you committed the fatal turnovers and lost the big game.
Saying farewell to his bungled presidential campaign, Gov. Rick Perry called on (in order) Newt Gingrich, God, and Sam Houston, and suggested his national embarrassment might be only temporary. "As a Texan, I have never shied away from a good fight, especially when the cause was right," Perry said. "But as someone who has always admired a great Texas forefather – Sam Houston – I know when it is time for a 'strategic retreat.'" In fact, Perry hadn't known that at all. He first decided to quit the race after the debacle in Iowa, then undecided (reportedly after a morning jog and a family chat), then vowed to fight on through South Carolina (while ignoring New Hampshire, which returned the favor), then redecided that South Carolina wasn't worth the good fight after all.
Somehow, I don't think that's the way Gen. Houston would have played it.
Another good Chronicle piece by Michael King - priceless!
