Texas Governor Rick Perry, the longest serving Governor in America, and the longest serving Governor in Texas history, announced today that he would not seek a fourth term, after 14 years in office.
Instead, Perry will seek “divine guidance” over the idea of running for President again in 2016.
Isn’t it wonderful that Rick Perry consults God, and is convinced that God and Jesus Christ are Republicans and conservatives, with their mean spirit and desire to control women, promote minimum wage jobs to keep corporations dominant over labor, deny voting rights to large numbers of people who might vote Democratic, and work to keep Hispanics and Latinos from having an impact on the dominant GOP monopoly of Texas politics.
Except for the fact that Texas will see an emergence of an alliance of women, labor, and Hispanics and Latinos that will transform the state over the next decade, with even a possibility that Mayor Julian Castro of San Antonio or State Senator Wendy Davis may be able to bring a Democratic victory to the Governorship in 2014, now that Perry is leaving the scene.
And anyone who wishes to take a bet on a President Perry in 2017 is totally delusional and looney, as Perry already made a fool of himself in the primaries and debates in 2011-2012, and will NEVER be President, and has zero chance to be even the GOP nominee.
For one thing, he has to compete with ego maniac fellow Texas Senator Ted Cruz, along with Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, and other “fresh faces” in the Republican Party!
Being Governor of Texas is not as great as it sounds, as the state constitution gives little power to the office of Governor, just about the weakest in the entire nation.
Rick Perry will have as much influence on the future as another Rick, another moron, Rick Santorum, former Senator of Pennsylvania, who also came across as divisive, stupid, and actually, like Perry, totalitarian oriented in his views of women.
The Ricks will make for lots of humor and controversy, but neither Rick Perry nor Rick Santorum will even be the GOP nominee for President in 2016, let alone the occupant of the White House, on January 20, 2017!
Perry said that three things will determine whether he will pursue the Presidency in ’16–God, family, and uh, uh, uh…..
I love your sarcastic humor, Paul! LOL
List of Progressive lies about the past.The essential attitude of the progressive towards the past is that of contempt and hostility. What do we see in the past? A crime list of vices and stupidities. Very often we place upon our forebears the worst imaginable construction, or ascribe to them vices they did not possess and crimes they did not commit. It is not true, for example, that the Puritans of Massachusetts were prigs who hated the body. It is not true that women of the Middle Ages could not own property (they did, plenty of it) and could not exercise political authority (Eleanor of Aquitaine, Bridget of Sweden, Margaret of Hungary, Matilda of Tuscany, Margaret of Scotland, and so forth). It is not true that Catholic missionaries hated the Indians and their customs. It is not true that people at the time of the American Revolution were largely illiterate (the exact reverse was true; Protestants read their Bibles, and The Federalist Papers were pamphlets intended for a broad readership, not to struggling political science students in graduate school). It is not true that the restriction of voting to males was attributable to misogyny. It is not true that the framers of the Constitution agreed to count a black slave as three-fifths of a person because they believed that that was what he was.
It is not true that people in the Middle Ages believed the earth was flat (they all knew it was round). It is not true that “millions†of witches were burnt at the stake before the Enlightenment.
We could go on with this. The hostility is applied also to stupendous human works. The Constitution is old and musty; we’d be better off with one of those spanking new ones such as Canada has. Who can learn anything from that woman-hater Milton? Shakespeare was clever, but he really wasn’t any cleverer than a decent writer for a crime show on television is now. Dante should be banned from the schools because he believed that sodomy was sinful. We have progressed beyond tonality in music – in fact, in “rap,†we’ve progressed beyond melody itself, and grammatical sentences. We have progressed beyond meter and rhyme in poetry. We have progressed beyond harmonious and beautiful structures in architecture. We freely “revise†the texts of hymns, translating them from powerful to drab. Everything that happened before one o’clock yesterday afternoon belonged to the Dark Ages, including an appreciation for such hoary old virtues as steadfastness, modesty, chastity, loyalty, and simplicity.But what is left of a truly human life? The commitment to change is like a ride on a roller-coaster, with one important reservation. We can enjoy a roller-coaster ride because we know that it will soon end, and we can put our feet back on the trusty solid ground. Imagine, though, a roller-coaster ride that does not end. Imagine a ride that has all the inconveniences of a bad journey – frenetic pace, confusion, dislocation, loss – and none of the consolations: no end of the journey, nothing but death, which is not now like arriving at a destination, but is instead like being at last tossed out of the car.
It is a horrible life, an inhuman race from nowhere to nowhere.
” Imagine a ride that has all the inconveniences of a bad journey – frenetic pace, confusion, dislocation, loss – and none of the consolations: no end of the journey, nothing but death, which is not now like arriving at a destination, but is instead like being at last tossed out of the car.
It is a horrible life, an inhuman race from nowhere to nowhere.
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Juan,
You used the same paragraph to describe the first five years of the Obama administration.