It Ain’t His Fault, Y’all
Oh Rick, it’s so nice to have you home where nothing is your own damn fault.
AUSTIN – Former Gov. Rick Perry is blaming his early exit from the GOP presidential campaign in large part on the felony charges that continue to hang over him from his attempts to get the Travis County district attorney to resign.
Speaking to Fox News on Monday, Perry said he knew going into his White House bid that he needed to take care of the indictment, which he described as the result of Rosemary Lehmberg – that “drunk DA” – using her office for “political purposes.”
“It had a real corrosive effect on our ability to raise money,” he said.
No, being stoopid is what kept you from raising money. It is not the Travis County DA’s fault that you can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
But, here’s the other side of that coin, Rick.
Your Super PAC is overflowing with money and now they won’t give it back. There’s $13 million in your Super PAC and the guy who gave you $5 million wants his money back.
The son of one top donor to the PAC, Doug Deason, said his father – tech magnate Darwin Deason — anticipates that contributions will be returned and the committee, dubbed the Opportunity and Freedom PAC, will shutter. But Austin Barbour, a senior member of the PAC’s leadership, said he’s still discussing options with the group’s lawyers.
Yeah, Austin Barbour is Haley’s nephew. I wouldn’t count on seeing any of that money back.
Thanks to Kyle and Steve for the heads up.
Funny, I thought republicans liked their candidates stupid and corrupt. Perry just didn’t have that extra oomph to distinguish him from the rest of the sociopathic clowns so he ended up at the bottom of the barrel.
1On with the transition Governor Oops to Prisoner Oops.
2Frankly, I always thought his whole campaign was all about raising money for legal fees to begin with, those lawyers are costly, particularly since getting Rick off is shaping up to be quite the uphill battle. Hell, even the majority Republican Court thinks he’s guilty and they should know, they have him on videotape, and in writing threatening to veto her office’s budget and her salary ($7.5 million) if she didn’t resign (if memory serves, didn’t he initially try to bribe her with a different job if she’d quit).
Nope, wouldn’t count on seeing that money any time soon.
3See that’s the deal. When a gazillionaire like Darwin Deason buys a boy, he expects him to stay bought. I wonder if Deason’s people break knees?
4So if you die in an incredibly stupid manner you get a Darwin Award.
I guess if you donate in an incredibly stupid manner you get a Darwin Deason Award.
5The ex-governot is counting on that money, by God. It will be interesting to watch the finagling that will be going on. Hope our contact over at the Dairy Queen keeps us apprised of the money trail.
6Doing my usual bouncing around odd — and sometimes even-handed — blogs, I actually came across an article in Think Progress from Sept.13 of this year that makes the seemingly valid point that, for all his many faults and stupidities, one thing actually does Perry credit, and that is a consistent support for Civil Rights Laws, which he would exempt from his calls for ‘smaller government’ and even ‘state’s rights.’
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It was a surprise, but it gives one rare good thing to say about Gov. Goodhair. (Ironically, when it compares him to the Donald, it doesn’t use Molly’s famous nickname.) And you can say the same about his predecessor — not so sure about George’s dumber brother, though.
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And it doesn’t mean they did not support policies that were disproportionatly affecting black people, but none of the three ever seemed to have the (rare — see Sandersistas) skill of foreseeing the actual results of their actions.
Oh LynnN, well done!
8Using her office for political purposes…. Gee, I’ve never seen anyone else do that, certainly not in Texas.
How did parents with (I’m guessing here) enough intelligence to name their child after Charles Darwin end up with said child donating $5 million to make Rick Perry president? I guess it’s an example of reversion to the mean: no matter how brilliant or how stupid you are, your kids are likely to be a bit closer to the average. In this case, below it.
9I guess you could say that Darwin’s opinion of Rick Perry “evolved.” Ba-dum, ching!
10And to think farmers are required to bury their BS underground,not spew in the air.
11PACs – a voluntary tax on st00pid.
12What’s this guy crying about $5,000,000 is just walking around money you know in case he needed to buy a yaght or a new Limosine.
13Maybe I should try proof reading before posting sorry forthe spelling.
14LOL no more weed today
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