FORMER TEXAS GOVERNOR CAN’T AFFORD TO PAY HIS STAFF
|| By FITSNEWS || Former Texas governor Rick Perry vowed to run a smarter presidential campaign in 2016. Unfortunately for him and his supporters, it’s looking as though his second bid for the White House will be far shorter-lived and much less successful than his first, which flamed out in spectacular fashion after a brief flirtation with frontrunner status.
According to National Journal, things have gotten so bad on the financial front for Perry that he has stopped paying his Palmetto State staff. In fact Perry’s financial woes reportedly extend beyond the “First in the South” primary state – to Iowa, New Hampshire and his national headquarters in Texas.
Nonetheless, Perry’s fearless South Carolina leader is marching onward.
“Nothing has changed with South Carolina as far as the mission at hand of helping the governor become the nominee of the party,” former SCGOP chairman and Perry 2016 South Carolina leader Katon Dawson told National Journal. “Nothing has changed.”
Well, nothing has changed except Dawson is now getting paid what he’s worth … (tssssss, burn).
Perry is polling at 2.5 percent in South Carolina according to the most recent data (.pdf here) – ranking him eleventh out of the sixteen candidates polled.
His 2016 campaign simply hasn’t caught fire – anywhere. As a result he’s been forced to attack higher-polling candidates – neglecting to realize, apparently, that those candidates are polling higher for a reason.
Yeah … that strategy didn’t work either.
After failing to rank among the top ten “Republican” candidates in recent national polls, Perry missed out the first GOP presidential primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio last week.
Making matters worse, his participation in a forum of second-tier candidates was virtually ignored – as former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina dominated the exchange and the ensuing headlines (and received a nice bump in the polls as a result).
This website has never been keen on Perry. From a post this spring …
… we simply cannot get behind Perry’s candidacy. While we can appreciate his “tough guy” stance on border security (one of the few functions government is called up to perform), his rampant crony capitalism cannot be overlooked.
And he’s a sanctimonious moralizer to boot …
Frankly we look forward to his exit from the race … which from the looks of it is likely to be sooner rather than later.
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Perry doesn’t have a shot. People love an underdog, but his speeches were horrible last election and his glasses eek of trying to look smarter. He’d be better off with same look. I know this sounds silly, but those glasses IMHO are hurting his campaign. They are making a statement and not one people want to read.
We agree on that.Perry and his glasses are a problem as a Republican because the majority of our candidates aren’t ugly people like Democrats.However Obama has dumbo ears and looks like a monkey, in my opinion, and got elected 2x. Anything is possible. If Perry was for abortion genocide and gay marriage he would be a cult hero in those glasses-in the Democrat Party.
Why you picking on a Republican? I know why.Like Megan Kelly, you are a Democrat.You must be a real ‘fox’ to judge others and their looks.
I pick on both parties. That is the beauty of being an Independent. While I typically vote Republican, a sense of humor is necessary. If Republicans had a better sense of humor (like Obama), they might be more popular?
Humor wins the day. People are more likely to listen when you are funny v. some angry _____.
Both are powerful motivators, but it is time the Republican party found a sense of humor IMHO.
With politicians like Grahamnasty, Christie, Rand Paul, and Poot Hockey how could anyone be a Republican without a sense of humor? I get a laugh just reciting their names. LOL As for Perry, he was looking at old movies and saw where Barry Goldwater had a pair of glasses just like his. LOL Someone sent me a picture of Obummer kissing Pelosi . The caption was : A Muslim kissing a pig. Gotta love politics.
LOL – that was pretty good ;)
Oh sh$$! ;)
Rick is clearly Dubya without a Rove.
LMAO – I don’t have a clue what Dubya means, but that sounds really funny!
http://www.dubyaspeak.com/international
To a fucking moron, a monkey fucking a football would sound funny. So I’m not surprised.
Actually that would be funny. And Monkey’s like to throw crap, another one of your big fetishes. So what would be really funny wyould be you, in a monkey suit, screwing a football, while throwing feces. That would sooooo funnny – you loooza.
I looked it up “Slang term for the most inept president the United States has ever had. George “Dubya” Bush”
Still funny :)
‘W’ got elected president TWICE, you FUCKING idiot.
Not a poli-sci major I take it. I’d be surprised if you even got a GED, as fucking stupid as you are.
We know who you are, it is obvious timing on replies. Good night flippy/pOgO — may your dreams be as sweet as your comments.
A hacker would. No surprise.
Obama got elected TWICE (and he even got more votes than the candidate he ran against, imagine that), you FUCKING idiot.
Not a poli-sci major I take it.
Aren’t you the same Political Scientist who predicted a Romney landslide in 2012? Ooops? Got it wrong on that one. And Walker is going to win the nomination – didn’t you predict that a couple months ago before the Dono jumped in?
so did Obama.
So did Clinton and Obama. Hey, didn’t W win re-election by a slm majority, versus Obama’s landslide? Are part of the 47%?
Good point……….
Only thing is Dubya has better photogenics………..
But they have one thing in common(as do most native Texas males)—–they are as full of shit as an Easter turkey……………
The country thrived, economically, and we had some sense of justice and morality, under W. He really was a very good president. Low unemployment, low energy prices and we were proud as a nation.
We’re in a fucking MESS, now, on every level.
You’re not very smart, are you?
On his last day of office George W Bush looked out from the Capital, over a country with 10.5% unemployment, highest foreclosure rates since the Great Depression, the economy shrinking every day, shedding nearly 1 million jobs a month, and he smiled. Mission Accomplished!!!
OT: Tomorrow is Daughter’s Day! Mine asked why we had Mother’s and Father’s Day and no Daughter’s Day? We looked it up. It is tomorrow. So hug your daughters — tomorrow.
What a STUPID fuck. You only pay attention to your kids one day out of the year, because the media tells you to.
Get your head out your ass. Raising a child is a FULL TIME job. It’s not meant for some Dumbass who only gets involved because the liberals and the marketers tell you it’s time.
YOU ARE THE FUCKING PROBLEM in this country.
And you know because you are posting on FITSNEWS non-stop? SMH. Get a life outside harassing me. I thought it was interesting, no one celebrates that, and thought I might share. Hey – at least I know you read it – I seriously doubt you ever observed it.
He, or she, must have knocked the crap out of you with that post. But I have to say, you did walk right into it, like an idiot.
I’ve got three fingers, can you guess which one is for you?
It’s said to see a person so addled, by your own ignorance, you are reduced to obscene gestures.
It’s a sure sign you’re playing out of your league.
See above. I’m out. Sweet Dreams.
It’s said? Who said? You said? Type much? I thought you were a journalist? Didn’t they teach you how to check your spelling?
He seems to have latched onto “knocking the crap/shit/whatever as a substitute for punctuation cuss words. I’ll have to start carrying something in my pocket again that I haven’t carried in years, on the off chance that I might meet him somewhere. Years ago, I took the occasional delight in approaching friends, family, or even the occasional stranger and saying, “I’ve got sonething in my pocket that will knock the shit out of you”. I would get the usual apprehensive or confused stare and then produce a small box of Ex-Lax from my pocket. Never failed to get a chuckle.
LOLOL
he’s quite repetitive
“Slap the shit out of you”
“must have struck a nerve to make you thisb angry”
“hide from what you are”
“black dick in your mouth”
“suck off Obama”
“Dumbass”
“You repeat the same things over and over”
“No imagination”
etc…
in a fairly tight loop.
I learned years ago that “his” (for they are legion, but only the one personality) hell is deeper and hotter than anything I could create – even with my extremely gifted imagination, high on vengeful inspiration.
It’s his only opportunity for interaction – his fascination with homosexuality and empty rants is his substitute for intimacy.
No, you’re the problem in this country. Now go back and blow Trump.
LMAO! So he’s a Trump fan too? Go figure.
I always look forward to daddy-daughter date nite at Chicfila. It usually comes around valentines day. This year my daughter had just turned 11 about a week before. Her taste in thing is getting more expensive. I know that because she told me that I was goin to have to do more for her than a crappy drink and a chicken sandwhich if I expected her to put out that night. They grow up so fast now.
I have one that just turned 11, another is 16. Expensive tastes? You ain’t seen nothing yet. For the 16 year old, King Street is off limits if it’s my money.
My 6 year olds favorite foods are salmon and crab? They had a retirement party for my husband at a really nice restaurant a week. She was the only kid there, all adults. She not only ordered Salmon with rice and veggies, but wanted to bring the tiny bit of left overs home LOL.
That brought a tear to my eye…
They grow up too fast!
I most certainly will.
I would hope Katon gets the $40,000.00 check to the SCGOP before Perry flames out.
Only after Katon gets an $80,000 check for himself! (In addition to all the other checks he has gotten!)
Perry leaves, Graham may not make it to the SC Primary. I think the GOP field will thin real quick.
Let’s hope so. I hope a lot of these nuisance candidates like Perry, Graham, Huckabee, and Santorum (Old Frothy) finally figure out that we don’t want them and they don’t have a chance in hell of winning.
Instead of licking Santorum’s froth, you might better worry about Hillary. That Dumbass implodes more each day. If you’re not shitting yourself over the prospect of Biden getting in, you’re a very dumb Democrat fuck.
As I have noted many times before, you kind of expect stupid stuff from Democrats i. genr
You left out Cruz………..
NBC actually has Cruz at 13% after the debate….right behind Trump…r u the only queer in Moore?
and Trump
Old Frothy?!?!?! Holy sh….ugh. ;-)
Hopefully the rest of Haley’s friends will be out soon and she will be left high and dry in 2018.
I will be glad to see the “candidacy” of this gutless, nutless, wonder finally shut down. Too many Bozo’s running who never had a chance and should have known it.
I disagree my friend. His efforts on the border have helped this nation.
The US has a majority of GOP governors. Perry was one of the best in a very prosperous state. Texas has done well even in a horrible national economy.
And Perry all but killed the Democrat Party in his state.
So many good GOP governors that not one can even challange Trump.
Do you mean his posturing at the border? These roaches are big on talk and photo ops but way short on action. Have you forgotten how he tucked his rail between his legs and ran when Jackboot Janet Napolitano threatened to shut down air travel over Texas if Texas passed a felony groping law that would apply to TSA agents who got too frisky with the peasants they were searching?
How many illegals has Perry bagged. Not banged. Bagged.
Yet Perry stuffed his DICK down your throat in Texas, and you filthy Democrat pieces of shit Choked on it.
Remember how you swore Wendy Davis – or whatever that dumbass abortion queen’s name was – would take the country by storm. She was a fucking joke, and made you look like a Fucking imbecile. And NO, we have not forgotten you ignorant fucking moron. So STFU, and go think about what a fucking idiot you, and the Democrats in Texas, are. Dumbass.
Sucking dicks sure is a thing with you. Wassamatter, is your butt too sore to handle your other pastime, today?
Don’t start with butt, you’ll get him running his mouth on his fecal poop fetish. Too early for oral and fecal fetish of Grand Bango.
You’re right, Rocky! Sorry.
Grand Bango
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LOL!
Loving the pic.
Great Gov. Did wonderful things in Texas. He pressed the Democrat Party asunder with good government. Good gov’t always makes the Ds look like the miserable waste they are.
But Perry never could translate it into a national persona. Best of Luck, Gov. Rick. You’ll do well whatever is next.
What’s funny: Hillary is just as “nigh” but these stupid Mofo ass-kissers are loathe to admit it. And she’s ALL you got. Sucks to be YOU!!! (:
You got it. While Democrat abortion lover Wendy Davis ran to replace him by focusing on partial birth abortion and mocking the NEW gov for being handicapped and in a wheelchair, Perry continued to try and close that border and expose American hater obama.
Good post.
Another former Democrat trying to run for President as a Republican, just like Trump. Now this one is a 2-time loser. Remember when you guaranteed he would be elected prez last time? Can’t tell if it’s the crazies or the GOP candidates who get dumber and dumber, but one thing is for sure, your blog failed.
Reagan was a former Democrat, and he slapped the FUCK out of you. And all you could do was STFU sit there and take it like the ignorant Fuck you are.
And he was the best president of the last 100 years, if not more.
Perry shows us that the GOP can get Hispanic votes. He got 54% of the Hispanic vote in Texas. Hispanics marry and the fathers take care of their children. That’s not common in Democrat voter households.
Democrats thrive on deadbeat dads and mothers who sleep w/ lazy-ass, selfish, irresponsible Democrat-voting men, then look to the gov’t (or us working people) to clean up the mess they made.
People don’t come here to live in a country that’s 3rd World, like the kind of America Obama and the Democrats are creating. We can get the Hispanic vote. Thanks for showing us that, Gov. Perry.
THe NEW gov Abbott got 40%.
I’m sure Trump will help the GOP win Hispanics. He’s leading the GOP polls, right?
If you mean the Hispanics who are here as citizens because they went through the proper processes to become citizens, are descendants of those who were legally here and/or were born here (such as Puerto Ricans), right on! If you are talming about the illegal invaders who have no respect for our laws and our country or their apologists, then piss on them. They aren’t supposed to be able to vote, any way.
They don’t vote.
Funny, they vote for Perry, but not for Romney. Bet they won’t vote for Trump either. And Perry, well, he’s out. Like Trump said, “he started wearing those glasses to look smarter, but he’s not very bright.”
Seems like you’re contorting yourself to where you look ignorant worrying about the GOP.
Yet no mention of Hillary and how her campaign is going. That speaks VOLUMES about the Democrat Party, and your predicament. I LOVE IT!!!!
She’s doing just fine. In NH she’s 10 points ahead of Trumpito, still sweeps the field in MN, and head to head 8 to 15 points ahead of the GOP field nationwide. The only party that needs to worry it seems to me is the GOP. Here’s what happens next – Oct 1 Donaldo quietly begins laying the groundwork to get on all 50 state ballots as Reform or Indepenent. He leaks that just before Christmas to up the ante with the GOP “Give me the nomination or I hit the button” – March 7 he realizes he can’t get enough delegates because of whinner take all, March 15 he announces his independent bid. Game over.
Texas this and Texas that. Don’t mess with Texas.
F?k Texas. Srsly
Dear Rick: Give it up. Nobody sees you as presidential material. Maybe you can still get a refund on the eyeglasses?
Reagan on Messicans
“When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But it makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won’t do? One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the field for lack of harvesters.” – Nov. 29, 1977, radio address.
“Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas — how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.” – December 1979 responding to conservative columnist Holmes Alexander.
“I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.” –Oct. 21, 1984 debate, on an immigration bill being considered in Congress.
“For one, we very much need in any immigration bill — we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not become citizens, for example, that they are protected and legitimized and given permanent residency here. And we want to see some things of that kind added to the immigration bill.” – Sept. 13, 1985, interview with the Spanish International Network.
“We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world who seek legally to come to America. The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans.” –Nov. 6, 1986, signing statement for Immigration Reform and Control Act.
“I believe we must resolve the problem at our southern border with full regard to the problems and needs of Mexico. I have suggested legalizing the entry of Mexican labor into this country on much the same basis you proposed, although I have not put it into the sense of restoring the bracero program.” – “Reagan: His Life in Letters,” page 511.
Tiresome, mindless gibberish
How dare you call the words of Lord Reagan gibberish!
Hasn’t Obama compared himself (and said he is like) Reagan.
I know it’s stupid Bullshit, like most of what Obama feeds you ignorant fucks, but how can you suck Obama’s Dick, and hate Reagan, when Obama so much wants to be as meaningful as Reagan?
Trump said in 2009 that Obama was “a strong guy who knows what he wants,” a person with “the mark of a strong leader,” and “totally a champion.” He even bestowed the greatest Trumpian honor upon Obama, saying, “I would hire him.”
Reagan on paying their “fair share.”
“We’re going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allow some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share. In theory, some of those loopholes were understandable, but in practice they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying ten percent of his salary, and that’s crazy. Do you think the millionaire ought to pay more in taxes than the bus driver or less?”
Reagan on separation of church and state
“We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate.
All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to to speak of and act on their belief.
At the same time that our Constitution prohibits state establishment of religion, it protects the free exercise of all religions. And walking this fine line requires government to be strictly neutral.”
Reagan on gun control
“There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons,” said California Gov. Ronald Reagan in May 1967. Reagan said guns were “a ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will.”
“You do know that I am a member of the NRA and my position on the right to bear arms is well known,” Reagan said, speaking out in support of the 1994 Brady bill to create new background checks and a waiting period for gun buyers. “But I want you to know something else, and I am going to say it in clear, unmistakable language: I support the Brady Bill and I urge Congress to enact it without further delay.”
“This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety … While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.”
–Ronald Reagan, in a May 3, 1994 letter to the U.S. House of Representatives, which was also signed by Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.
“I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.”
–Ronald Reagan, in a speech at his 78th birthday celebration in Los Angeles on February 6, 1989.
“Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.”
–Ronald Reagan, in an August 28, 1986 signing statement on a bill that banned the production and importation of armor-piercing bullets.
“With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.”
–Ronald Reagan, speech at George Washington University in a on March 29, 1991.
“Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.”
–Ronald Reagan, in a March 29, 1991 New York Times op-ed in support of the Brady Bill.
“I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.”
–Ronald Reagan, in a press conference in Toronto on June 21, 1988, suggesting that prospective gun owners should have to receive training before purchasing a firearm.
“Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.”
–Ronald Reagan, during a question-and-answer session with high-school students on November 14, 1988.
Poor guy was in the grip of Alzheimer’s at time. He was suffering from a form of brain damage, like most who would support those positions.
He’d been *shot*, for cryin’ out loud!
Reagan on abortion
While Reagan served as Governor of California, he made abortion legal there in 1967.
Democratic California state senator Anthony Beilenson introduced the “Therapeutic Abortion Act,” in an effort to reduce the number of “back-room abortions” performed in California. After some time of indecision Reagan signed the bill into law. Reagan was 55.
Mindless gibberish.
Lacking context or discussion,
Mindless gibberish, posted by the hateful, intended to sway the simple.
Good for him! I keep finding new reasons that I liked him all the time.
My dirty little secret – I voted for him first term – I had lived in California while he was governor.
Now I know how Ratzinger felt about being in the Hitler youth.
But when he repented (as I beg you to do) and became a Republican, he was the most-successful, most-Conservative and most-adored president in the last 100 years or more. He delivered from one of the WORST EVER.
God is good to those who do his work. Thank you Ronnie, and that you God for giving him to us, and guiding him to do your will.
And we need a RONALD REAGAN more than ever, right now. I pray we get one. You should too.
Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation – The Human Life …
http://www.humanlifereview.com/abortion-and-the-co...
The Human Life ReviewAbortion and the Conscience of the Nation · 03 Feb 1983. Ronald Reagan … Our nationwide policy of abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy …
Read it you lying POS.Reagan ‘penned’ one of the most poetic and spiritual defenses of LIFE that has ever been published.1983.
You have NO integrity, pervert.
I’m interested in the beginning of his prison sentence.
A quote from one of Rick’s old tricks
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–sSWU6xnb–/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1864awo5omf0hjpg.jpg
True?
Too fucking stupid to express yourself using your own words?
I wouldn’t be as harsh.I mean,yeah-he has a pencil dick,but he tries to make up w/his butt,and does.People should quit getting so down on him.He’s a lot better looking than , Lindsey
(‘Well’-
true)
The only question is: When Gov. and Defendant Perry drops out – – will he do so while wearing his newly adopted, glasses?
Perry is an empty suit.
Sadly, Obama is a suit full of Bullshit, and filthy bastards like you, eat it up.