Welcome To Our New Game Show. What Governor’s Name Starts With an R and Ends With a Perry and Finished Behind “Other” in the CPAC Straw Poll?
If you guessed Arnold Schwarzenegger, go back to your Republican seat in the 14th century.
Oh yeah, Rick Perry’s name was indeed listed on the straw poll ballot at the CPAC convention. He even went and gave a speech there, where he tried to one-up Ted Cruz’s disdain of people with Multiple Sclerosis by promising to go spit on the graves of World War II veterans.
But he finished behind Whoszit and Whatchamadoddle.
Click the little one to get the big one.
Maybe if they had a line that went the other direction, Rick could have gotten his name on the chart.
Rick, Dude!, listen up. You have two chances to be considered a viable Presidential contender, slim and none, and slim just saddled-up and left town.
Personally, I think the final tipping point was his little trip to California to steal jobs and all he came back with was a trailer of rednecks who were drunk and lost and three bottles of a nice Cabernet for under $10.
But that’s just my correct opinion.
Perry is just so pathetically funny! So self-deluded! The delusion can also be said of Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. And carneval cruz! Great way to get rid of my anxiety attack!
1You forgot to mention that in Perry’s case, the “nun” can be habit forming…
2Rick, you know you are done when you can’t even get past Sarah “Big Gulp” Palin in the poles
3Forgive my ignorance, but what’s that WWII thing about?
4Perry obviously needs to move further to the right.
5He will still run. It’s an excellent way to blow taxpayer money on security, get in some travel miles, and divert some cash to Perry from the campaign fund.
6Odds are he will “write” a book, and use the campaign to sell copies, like Newt did.
7Poor Rick is a lame duck and he doesn’t even know it.
8We will give you Rick Scott for backup there. First Goodhair, and then Baldo (or Skeletor by some fans). What better choices could Texas have? We also might ship you Rubio; he is Cuban and does NOT like those from other parts of Latin America.. You all might give him a wakeup call!!!
9Rand Paul could count on getting just about 25% of the total vote is my guess if he’s the nominee. Cruz would get even less than the 23% he got at CPAC.
10OOPS, I meant the 4% he got.
11Swig a bottle Rubio might do better than 23% due to his sometimes moderate stances.
Am I alone in thinking that it’s really scary that Rand Paul came in first? Why are all the toxic people percolating to the top?
12No Jan, you are not along. Those of us in the hills and hollars of Kentucky are just plain afeared. We keep hoping he will campaign at one of our Genuwine Righteous Serpent handling churches….and get bite. Alot.
Lindy aka Hippie in the Hollar
13Why wouldn’t he run?
He can get all that free money. Look how much fun he had the last time.
BTW I looked up the resolution that cruz wouldn’t support.
If that guy could not read this and support it on 2 days notice, then there is something wrong with him and his staff.
Too much hubris or hypocrisy, perhaps?
Anyway, he is the link.
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-resolution/396/text
He and the governor are nasty, mean men.
14Diane, thanks for the link to the resolution. Could Cruz have had a problem with the following part:
(5) recognizes and reaffirms the commitment of the United
States to creating a world free of multiple sclerosis by–
(A) promoting awareness about people who are
affected with multiple sclerosis; and
(B) promoting new education programs, supporting
research, and expanding access to medical
treatment;
A resolution suggesting EDUCATION, RESEARCH and EXPANDING ACCESS TO MEDICAL TREATMENT? That would make us ELITISTS or _____________ (you fill in the blank), and would make him human.
A proud elitist.
15Diane: Thanks for that link. I saw right away why Cruz wouldn’t support that bill. It was submitted by Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania.
16No card carrying tea party wacko is going to support anything a Democrat is behind, no matter how innocuous or positive it may be.
And by the way, Cruz announced at CPAC that he is proud to be called a Wacko-Bird. Well Perry is a charter member of that club.
There’s a certain poetic justice in the CPAC numbers for Perry. After all, he’s a man who has trouble with numbers.
17That’s what happens when you are on C-Span for hours, and hours, and hours doing the filibuster thing. Paul is the last guy these wonderful “conservatives” remember seeing on the teevee machine. That’s the important thing.
I see that the Senator (Vitter) from our neighboring state, Lousiana is going to put a “hold” on the nominee for Secretary of Labor…. because, as lawyer in the DOJ, he got into the business of our neighbors, who were trying to supress the vote. Mr. Vitter… please sit down, and shut the heck up.
And… the beat goes on, and on.
Will it ever end?
18Thanks for the link Diane. I think of Reagan and his squashing of AIDS research which would have given us such knowledge into body processes, so that MS and the terrible disease RA that I have as well as various cancers might be handled by now. Instead of Military and Sports spending, a “Manhattan Project” on the diseases that hurt so many would be a great way to spend our cash.
19The repugs are out to destroy our country. They have no shame, no decency, just greed. Ignorance in action is one of the most frightening things there is. Ignorance and stupidity in action has got me and mine talking about having a rifle in our home…a terrifying idea, for we don’t belong to any neighborhood militia–well regulated or otherwise…I am worried about my country and often embarrassed when I travel to have to claim to be an American–the world thinks we are all loud mouthed, stupid boorish pigs. Sigh…
@Jan, “Why are all the toxic people percolating to the top?”
The GOP is like a septic tank. The big chunks always come to the top.
20Not to worry much about this survey. All it did was take the temperature of a biased sample of warped minds who clustered in the same place. Start with a queered sample population and end up with queered results.
21Elise – I’m with you in embarrassment of this country. A week ago, I received the following email from a German friend:” Guns in schools in South Dakota? W@@@ the F@@@ !!!!!!!” Now I just read on breaking news “Assault weapons ban dropped from Senate bill.” Has this country always harbored so many crazy ugly hateful people? Were they traveling below radar, until Obama’s first election, at which point they crawled, oozed and slithered from every possible dark and ugly place?
22Umptydump……well said.
23Myrna–
24I grew up in poverty, and there were so many ugly people, bigoted people there,that I got as far away from them as I could…
They traveled below the radar because only the white “upper middle class” controlled everything in the good old days…TV-Print–music–movies-those people, by attrition and birth control, got lost ( they were not necessarily good people) into the immigrant and cost of living non survivable upturn, (going to college now, buying a home, feeding your family–health care takes 2/3rds of my income) so the fight for survival has turned the ugly underbelly up and white folks just can’t take it…if we honestly looked the nastiness has been in our culture from the beginning (slavery, no Irish need apply) but people other than whites never had a voice…and some of the finest people you would ever meet never spoke up in protest until things shifted enough for an Obama to win–I remember back when the upper class school that my children attended had a straw poll for the election and Jesse Jackson won…the mostly Repug parents were so confused…I laughed and laughed, the two most powerful people in my children’s lives (other than their father and I) were The lady who handed out candy at the tennis club and their Harvard educated headmaster, who were both black–of course the kids voted for Jesse Jackson –his first name was even the same as the headmasters…for me it was a blow for the future, for the other parents it was just confusing…9/11 had the ladies that lived in my care homes totally bewildered–trying to explain how we were not the good guys to a lot of the world simply scared them..sigh
While thinking some more about sample populations, it drove home the thought that the conservatives apparently are stumbling down the same statistical path that shocked them so badly in November. They decided to believe only the polls that gave them the sunniest picture, while folks like Nate Silver at the NY Times pointed out that their sampling methodology was just plain looney and statistically stupid. When I commented about CPAC attendees taking their temperatures, it hadn’t occurred to me that they were doing it with rectal thermometers.
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