It's because all of the idiots outside of Austin who actually voted for him have figured out he's an idiot.

I always picture him as Yosemite Sam.

/What a maroon!

I can pretty well guarantee that, as a result of this epic failure, Rick Perry will not run for reelection in 2014, which is fine by me, because there is no getting around what a spectacular idiot he is. Even the hardcore conservatives in Texas will look elsewhere.

Granted, whoever replaces him will likely be just as bad, and it saddens me that Rick Perry's last hurrah on the stage won't be a humiliating electoral defeat, but if we never have to look at that son of a biatch again Texas and the world will be better off.

While 40 percent of Perry's constituents approve of how he's doing his job, 43 percent approve of President Obama's performance.

Obama has a higher approval rate than Perry in Texas. Wow!

One thing the GOP has to worry about is that Texas will become a toss up state before California will!

My approval of Rick Perry is at an all time high. Keep helping Rick.

I guess that's what happens sometimes when you basically quit your job as leader of a state to run a super-crappy presidential campaign and proceed to embarrass everyone with which you have ever been associated.

I'm very happy. Let's hope these numbers translate into a new governor next election.

It's much easier for idiot republicans to pretend Rick Perry isn't an idiot when he isn't going around the country vocally proclaiming his retarded stances on everything on national TV.

Clearly what we need is to get the REST of the Republican party on national TV, so their idiot constituents can have it forced in their faces what ignorant, greedy, bigoted scum they have running their party.

Just think of the idiot Texas billionaires who gave him millions to run

Won't someone please think of the idiot Texas billionaires?

I was curious if this would happen.

Somewhat surprised in a way, but I guess that means there's hope yet for some of them.

Jacobin: Just think of the idiot Texas billionaires who gave him millions to run

Won't someone please think of the idiot Texas billionaires?

What I want to know... Do these guys REALLY consider him to have been a good return on their investment? Or is it they just have so much money they don't even notice and fark, why give it to charity?

Corvus: While 40 percent of Perry's constituents approve of how he's doing his job, 43 percent approve of President Obama's performance.

Obama has a higher approval rate than Perry in Texas. Wow!

One thing the GOP has to worry about is that Texas will become a toss up state before California will!

Take a look at all the blue in the 2008 county by county map of Texas sometime. There's a lot more than one would think

unamused: Calmamity: unamused: Democrats will run a gun grabber

A gun grabber like Obama?

No, a gun grabber like Bill White.

Call it shtick if you will, but like gravity pulls you down, a gun grabber won't win Texas.

P.S. Look up how many electoral votes Obama won in Texas in 2008.

... What?

unamused: Calmamity: unamused: Democrats will run a gun grabber

A gun grabber like Obama?

No, a gun grabber like Bill White.

Call it shtick if you will, but like gravity pulls you down, a gun grabber won't win Texas.

P.S. Look up how many electoral votes Obama won in Texas in 2008.

"Gun grabbers". Just as real and present a danger as vampires and Evil Santa.

Of course, that won't stop toolboxes like you from uncritically labeling anyone with a D after their name a "gun grabber".

Satanic_Hamster: Jacobin: Just think of the idiot Texas billionaires who gave him millions to run

Won't someone please think of the idiot Texas billionaires?

What I want to know... Do these guys REALLY consider him to have been a good return on their investment? Or is it they just have so much money they don't even notice and fark, why give it to charity?

Given that Rick's primary goal as Governor has been to funnel state money to his friends, I'd say yes.

For some strange reason, Rick Perry's approval rating in Texas has tanked was re-elected twice.

And that reason is because republican voters are stupid.

And yet he will probably still win re-election again in 4 years because the Texas Democratic Party is about as competent as a bag of potatoes.

Seriously, just how crappy and unappealing are the Dems down there? Even right-wing states like Kansas and Kentucky can elect Democratic governors every once in awhile.

The Republicans have had a good long run going on the strategy of "consolidate everything bad in American politics into one party and then cater to the evil and stupid" but they do seem to slowly be running out of steam.

unamused: Calmamity: unamused: Democrats will run a gun grabber

A gun grabber like Obama?

No, a gun grabber like Bill White.

Call it shtick if you will, but like gravity pulls you down, a gun grabber won't win Texas.

P.S. Look up how many electoral votes Obama won in Texas in 2008.



THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!!!

Texas gave more funding to Obama than McCain in the 2008 presidential election. That's something very interesting to mull over.

unamused: Bill White is a proven gun grabber.

Yeeeahhhhh....he owns guns but he didn't go out and shoot a coyote with them so he's a "gun grabber".

If he were running for governor of New York, Democrat Bill White would probably be considered a pro-gun enthusiast. He's got a shotgun and a 9 mm pistol, opposes any new laws on firearms and says he'd like to sign up some day for a concealed weapons permit.
But this is Texas, where incumbent Rick Perry recently shot a coyote while out jogging and enjoys hunting deer with a bow and arrow. The love of weaponry is so ingrained in state culture that having a legal permit to carry a handgun will get you waved through the Texas Capitol security lines without going through a magnetometer.
Against that backdrop, the former Houston mayor heads into the 2010 governor's race playing defense on a powerful political issue. The biggest liability for White is his past membership in a New York-based gun control group. White says he resigned after finding its positions too restrictive, but his participation in Mayors Against Illegal Guns riled up those who live to preserve Texas' pro-gun culture.
"Anywhere in the civilized world you would be able to make the argument that everybody should be able to be against illegal guns. But we're not in the civilized word. We're in Texas," said Southern Methodist University political scientist Cal Jillson.

IOW, you're a moran.

Well, it breaks down pretty simply:

Point the first: the governor of Texas has little to no actual power, a result of reconstruction politics. Since it can do nothing without the overwhelming support from the legislature, a governor can't really do anything to piss people off that the buck can't be convincingly passed on.

Point the second: This leaves the governor with basically two jobs, namely meeting with various heads of state and so on as a figurehead and not doing anything to embarrass us. Perry has always failed miserably at the second, but since he's always done so in a way that not a lot of people pay attention to, it's never been a big deal and people have always just voted by party.

Point the third: A national campaign for president is a lot harder to ignore than the state politics surrounding a relatively un-influential post. So now everyone's actually noticed that he fails hard at governor duty number two.

Voters refuse to save a pretzel for the gas jets.

And in related news Bachmann is so far back in her own district she's likely not going to get reelected.

Because Texans know the real power is the Lt. Governor, and the ONE THING we asked of The Hair is that he not do anything too embarrasing and not fark things up for us while we do our thing.

We were fine with him when he sat up there smiling and looking pretty like the figurehead he is. His job was to fill the spot so no one got in there that wanted to change anything. Just shut up, smile and keep that spot filled.

Now he's gone and made an ass of himself, and made the state look bad to people who don't understand that we don't really let the governor hold the steering wheel in Texas.

/not that most Texans give a shiat what anyone outside of Texas thinks in the first place, mind you :)

Jim_Callahan: Well, it breaks down pretty simply:

You said it better. But with purtier words.

the_vegetarian_cannibal: Even right-wing states like Kansas and Kentucky can elect Democratic governors every once in awhile.

Bet you didn't know that in Texas, 30% of governors in the last 22 years have been Democrats :)

(Or that since 1874, we have only had THREE Republican Governors, and you can only name two.)

unamused: I label gun grabbers gun grabbers.

Bill White is a proven gun grabber.

Barack Obama is not. Morally he is, but that has not been translated into action on his part. There is a chance I will vote for him this fall. I think he has sense enough to continue to restrain himself.

(voted for Radnofsky once)

So, when the Texas Dem party runs another big city gun grabber against Parry, they will get crushed.

Physics is physics.

favorited.

//that's Parry, with an A.

the_vegetarian_cannibal: THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!!!

It does in some states (Maine?) where they allocate based on districts.

cretinbob: Ummm....because people finally got a chance to hear him speak instead of just regarding him as the guy who wasn't a Democrat?

Ding ding ding ding!!! We have a winner!

BojanglesPaladin: /not that most Texans give a shiat what anyone outside of Texas thinks in the first place, mind you :)

Fair enough. But we can also forge an agreement that when Texans travel, no one else gives a sh*t about how great they think they are? It's a fair request.

Sincerely,

the rest of the USA

/"But I'm from TEXAS"

//"So? Do you want the medium or the large, sir?"