Rick Perry Drops Out of 2016 Presidential Race
Source: ABC News
The former Texas governor told the Eagle Forum on Friday afternoon that he is suspending his presidential campaign.
We have a tremendous field the best in a generation so I step aside knowing our party is in good hands, and as long as we listen to the grassroots, the cause of conservatism will be too.
"That is why today I am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States," he said, adding that he has "no regrets" about his run.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rick-perry-drops-2016-presidential-race/story?id=33696891
I'm shocked!
renegade000
(2,301 posts)I'm sorry, I seriously couldn't get past that opening...
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)It speaks to the generation, though.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)So, yeah . . .
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I stopped in my tracks and burst out laughing too!
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I wonder who the first democratic candidate will be to drop out. I can't imagine any until after Iowa.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...the baseball equivalent of a manager looking down the bench at a solid line up of .115 hitters.
PEACE!
brooklynite
(94,571 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)demilib
(100 posts)for comedians
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)sarcasm, just in case
thereismore
(13,326 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Some are good friends of mine. Many are not. They are stupid. I won't say which ones. I will build a fence. It'll be huge.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)The best field, the absolute best. The other party is stupid and losers.
Peace
Sam_Fields
(305 posts)24601
(3,962 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)14 Republican clowns in the car, 14 Republican clowns,
If one of those clowns decides to bow out, 13 Republican clowns in the car.....
ashling
(25,771 posts)About Face, Christian Soldiers!
Mike Nelson
(9,956 posts)...there are so many other clowns to follow!
4lbs
(6,855 posts)Same with Perry.
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)Your whole campaign was a big oops, perry.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)JCMach1
(27,558 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)JCMach1
(27,558 posts)+1 for Gov. Perry... the smartest thing you have do in... errr... like ever.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Its still Rick Perry under there!
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)several more to go.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Disco Inferno
(7 posts)Soon? Is that why he's dropping out?
Kotya
(235 posts)But I think his .00001% polling and scrounging under the sofa cushions to pay his staffers had more to do with it.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)The biggest Buffoon ever. I predict Perry's going to start a trend, yet all of the single digit percentages will probably go right up to the front runner. What to do...be humiliated now or later?
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The rest of the "tremendous" field are but tremendous losers.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)will be historic. Hasn't been done in half a century. So exciting that we will break the trend.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)His ego won't let him flame out this fast. There's several low runger's that'll go before him.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)The clown car lightened by one.
pugetres
(507 posts)is directly related to his legal proceedings. I wonder if the court system has ruled against him and the prosecutors can proceed with charges of felony abuse of power. I heard that the decision could be coming soon.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Now he is an after thought and former governor going to jail doesn't have the same dramatics.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)underpants
(182,803 posts)It's GilMORE rising!!!!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)They call themselves the "Gilmore Girls".
underpants
(182,803 posts)We are actually watching Gilmore Girls on Netflix RIGHT NOW.
I suggested it to my wife when was pregnant due to a recommendation from people here on DU. My daughter is now 10 and she LOVES the show. She used to kick in the womb when Carol King sang the theme song.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)At least he's exceeded mine. I was guessing he'd be the first to go.
Congratulations to Governor Gilmore on outlasting someone!
underpants
(182,803 posts)Our standardized testing began when Gilmore was Governor. They are called then Standards of Learning....yes SOL's.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)pnwmom
(108,978 posts)classof56
(5,376 posts)Well, somebody had to say it!
Attorney in Texas
(3,373 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)So down to 15.....they are allowing 11 at the big table to allow Carley into the debate. So the child's table will only have 4 candidates? Seems that one might even give the candidates more time to talk.
callous taoboy
(4,585 posts)Too bad he ever entered politics in the first place. Just think of where Texas might be had he never darkened the doors of the capital.
Gman
(24,780 posts)Archae
(46,327 posts)If so, God sure has a lousy track record in picking republicans.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)"Oops. I dialed the wrong brain in which to put the crazy thoughts."
procon
(15,805 posts)So he doesn't even have balls to man up and say he quit?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Something to do with FEC regulations about what happens to whatever campaign funds he has left.
olddots
(10,237 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)and several countries south of the border.
underpants
(182,803 posts)Wonder if they'll let him have 1 round for the big "Illegal shootin'" gun?
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Freak show!
They_Live
(3,233 posts)If only he had worn two pairs of glasses.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)will have 4 people? (CNN yesterday announced their main debate would feature 11 candidates, number 11 being Chris Christie. Originally they only slated 10 but I guess they want Christie's bluster on stage)
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Martin Eden
(12,867 posts)walkingman
(7,616 posts)about Perry dropping out. On one hand the more he opens his mouth the crazier he seems which is kind of entertaining but on the other hand he makes it very embarrassing to be a Texan. I am totally glad that finally after what seems forever he will no longer be in the news.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)vacation.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)navarth
(5,927 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)1. No one likes him.
2. He has no money.
3. America prefers its crooked politicians wait till they're elected before they go bad.
navarth
(5,927 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)turbinetree
(24,701 posts)now when you climbed out of the clown car ...........................
Honk------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)1. Donald Rump has the racist/teabagger primary vote sewn up.
2. The glasses really DIDN'T make him any smarter like Jebbie told him would happen.
3. Errr,... Ummm,... ahhh,... OOOPS!!!
PEACE!
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)... but that might inadvertently convey the wrong impression about Perry's intelligence.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)a bottle of syrup.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Well, Gov'na, I do believe you mistook an insult for a compliment.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)now take a fucking hike
NBachers
(17,110 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you on the way out.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Didn't even make it to this year's "Oops" moment, I was looking forward to that!
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Didn't even make it to this year's "Oops" moment, I was looking forward to that!
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)OakCliffDem
(1,274 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Because if not, the GOP is fresh out of "the usual."
And at the same time, the three top GOP runners are a former liberal friend of the Clintons, an African-American brain surgeon, and an asshole with an Hispanic last name.
Let's just pull off the mask for the knuckledraggers and tell them the Democrats were behind it all the whole time, hahahahaha!
Botany
(70,504 posts)briv1016
(1,570 posts)Assuming he's not in prison.
Paladin
(28,261 posts)Within four years, Texas A&M will have designated Perry as God Almighty---as well they should, given all the countless millions of dollars he's channeled to that school over the last few years. They'll give Perry the on-campus office building and salary to go with that title, and Perry will be able to finish out his days consistently---as a government worker......
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Lychee2
(405 posts)How could he not know that his goal was impossible? Is his egotism so great that he disregards his own miserable record of failure? There has got to be something wrong with a guy like this. No disrespect to Rick, and I do not mean this in a bad way, but you were absolutely batshit nuts to run again.
P.S. I recently read a book about psychopathy by self-styled psychopath M.E. English. She says that psychopaths have a kind of blindness to the downside of every choice, and that's why they screw up their own lives and the lives of other people.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I just went through the list of (now) 16 candidates. I forgot a few of these idiots. It will be interesting watching them drop one by one. Unfortunately, there isn't a single republican running who doesn't make me sick. I tried to find the least bad one and I couldn't. They are all so awful.
Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida (19992007)
Ben Carson, former Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital (19842013)
Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey (2010present)
Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator from Texas (2013present)
Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard (19992005)
Jim Gilmore, former Governor of Virginia (19982002)
Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator from South Carolina (2003present)
Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas (19962007)
Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana (2008present)
John Kasich, Governor of Ohio (2011present)
George Pataki, former Governor of New York (19952006)
Rand Paul, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (2011present)
Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator from Florida (2011present)
Rick Santorum, former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (19952007)
Donald Trump, Chairman of The Trump Organization (1971present)
Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin (2011present)
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)Not really.
eridani
(51,907 posts)http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Gilbert_And_Sullivan:As_Some_Day_It_May_Happen
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed who never would be missed!
There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs
All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs
All children who are up in dates, and floor you with 'em flat
All persons who in shaking hands, shake hands with you like that
And all third persons who on spoiling tête-á-têtes insist
They'd none of 'em be missed they'd none of 'em be missed!
(Chorus
He's got 'em on the list he's got 'em on the list;
And they'll none of 'em be missed they'll none of 'em be missed.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)He's next though...
NCjack
(10,279 posts)1. He's an idget.
2. He's a featherweight.
3. Oops! I forget what #3 is.
DFW
(54,384 posts)I see his judgment is as intact as it ever was. Just consider their front-runner:
Everyone who remembers the theme song from the Micky Mouse Club sing along:
Who campaigns like he cares
Not for you or me?
D-O-N
A-L-D
T-R-U-M-P!
Who spouts off, has no clue
On foreign po-li-cy?
D-O-N
A-L-D
T-R-U-M-P!
Mickey Mouse (Donald Trump!)
Mickey Mouse (Donald Trump!)
A helicopter just to get him
High, high, high, high!
Come along and sing his song
Toss poor folks in the street
D-O-N
A-L-D
T-R-U-M-P!
Go and trash all Mexico,
Repeat it in a Tweet!
D-O-N
A-L-D
T-R-U-M-P!
Mickey Mouse (Donald Trump!)
Mickey Mouse (Donald Trump!)
A helicopter just to get him
High, high, high, high!
M-I-C
.see all that hair?
K-E-Y
..why? Because you cant see anything else!
T-R-U-M-P!
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)Or maybe he's losing money on the deal?
Bucky
(54,013 posts)Enthusiast
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