Given a lot of Republican's unhappiness with the current field of candidates for the GOP presidential nomination, as Karoli already pointed out, it looks like Governor "Good-Hair" Rick Perry of Texas is considering throwing his hat in the ring. During his first interview since hinting that he might be willing to run, Fox's Neil Cavuto asked Perry about his unpopularity in his home state.
As Think Progress noted, he got a rather bizarre answer out of him -- Perry: Texans Don’t Like Me Because ‘A Prophet Is…Not Loved In Their Hometown’:
In his first national TV interview since presidential rumors surfaced, Perry answered Fox News’ Neil Cavuto question about why he’s so unpopular in his home state by suggesting he’s a “prophet”:
CAVUTO: You have kind of like the Chris Christie phenomenon: very popular outside your state, still popular but not nearly as popular within your state. There are even Tea Party groups within your state who like you but don’t love you. [...] What do you say?
PERRY: I say that a prophet is generally not loved in their hometown. That’s both Biblical and practical.
As they wrote in their post and as we've been following here at C&L as well, there's a long list of reasons Texas voters might not be too thrilled with Perry.
As the state’s longest serving governor in history, Perry has faced persistently low approval ratings as he’s pushed through a radical right-wing agenda that has left Texas with a record budget deficit, the third highest poverty rate in the country, and the highest percentage of uninsured residents in the country. As Think Progress has documented, Perry has a history of ducking tough questions by invoking religion, and has suggested in the past that he’s just implementing God’s will on Earth through his irresponsible governance. Perry may be answering Republicans’ prayers if he enters the race, but it’s still pretty self-aggrandizing to call himself a prophet.
Neither is a crook, a pedophile, an idiot, or a governer.
WWFSMD?
The GOP is already pushing a false story they're dubbing "The Texas Miracle" that "37% of all jobs created in the U.S. since Obama was elected were created in Texas."
Not only is this a total falsehood based upon a passing comment by the Texas Fed Chair to a WSJ blogger friend, but nearly half of Perry's "Miracle" jobs were GOVERNMENT jobs paid for with STIMULUS FUNDS.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
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I saw a clip this morning of Perry,who was a stand in speaker for Trump at last night's Lincoln dinner. The first thought to hit my brain was, he sounds just like bush. Using that good ole boy drawl. Also just like bush he seems to think he's cute when he does this stuff. Oh god, please not another bush reminder in the white house. I don't think any of us can take that.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Can I suggest it would be logical to suggest perhaps someone should nail him up, just to make him happy?
Or would that violate C&L's strict code against advocating violence?
It could be done non-violently, in a loving expression of our sincere desire he reach his life's fulfillment.
Or ya gonna deep-six this post?
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
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Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Best laugh I've had all week!!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
only in the nicest possible way.
Nah... I think they'll give you a pass on this 'un, man... this is, after all, the sanctimonious, closeted homophobe who doesn't even rise to the quality of 3-day-old Santorum
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
I wish my dick was as big as his ego.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
I was drinking coffee! Give a guy some warning. LOL.
Not me , would be a real drag having to push a wheelbarrow around .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Looked like he was ready to drop-down on the spot.
People who know Perry don't know Perry. No one living today knows Perry. Not even Perry's mother knows Perry. It's impossible. Only the people of the future can truly know Perry.
So get in line with Dubya.
to curse his memory and the day he was born.
if perry considers himself a prophet, aka jesus christ, then he should know how his story is going to end, don't you think? after all he is a prophet. prophets can see into the future. his future isn't looking so pretty
People like Perry believe that Christ is God made flesh. For them a prophet would be Moses, who lived a long ass time and got to smite all the evil-dooers.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
No, Rick Perry is not your normal maniac. He is the most dangerous type, a maniac with religious delusions. Remember David Koresh?
How I despise these deluded, sanctimonious, messianic dipshits.
If you're going to quote the Bible, at least you could get it right.
The Mark 6 version: "4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.”
The Luke 4:24 version: “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown."
Loved? Yeah, Jesus talked about love a lot, like loving your neighbor and loving those in need and taking care of them. I don't recall that he ever talked about loving the prophets
BTW: "Governor, I know Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ lives in my heart. You, sir, are no Jesus."
So this isn't presumptuous or arrogant at all!
Messianic Maniac, anyone?
me-oww!
Typical corporate christian: Talking about Jesus as he screws the poor, infirm, helpless and struggling working classes, so that he can funnel even more of their money to millionaires and billionaires.
Sure sounds like the teachings of Jesus I remember? NOT!
I truly loathe these religious nazi's.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
You are not alone TR .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Sitting on 4 billion bucks given to the state of Texas for education and students have to stand out on street corners selling bottles of water to support extra-curricular, and the teachers of core classes have to spend hundreds of dollars each year out-of-pocket... classes are increased in number, teachers with less than 2 years on the job are fired, accomodations for the disabled students, mandated by NCLB have to be consolidated at schools quite a distance from the residences of those students...
But Jeebus loves us and wants us to be prosperous... and ol' Rick's doing his best to help ol' Jeebus out and make himself so.
Since Texas is the South, I guess I've got to follow this rant up with:
"Bless his hawrt."
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
I wonder if he is going to declare his run for the President on his prayer day in Aug. Maybe he will tell us that god told him that day to run. Anyone wanna bet?
Hey, I just attempted to predict the future. Does that make me a prophet too?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Check with your hometown folk.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
they lock people up in rubber rooms for saying things like you.
Well... for saying things like you - and - your a Democrat, or Female, or Black or Muslim or Gay or Asian or ANYTHING that ISN'T a White privileged well-healed GOP Lawmaker monomaniacal Sociopath.
But Hey!...Since the Koch Bros and their fellow Christian corporate-fascist racists have your back and Rupert "Electric Jesus" Murdoch gives you precious time on his omni-present TV machine -
Dude! You're Golden!
Wouldda thunk it?
Just think for a minute about the reaction on Fox News if President Obama dared say such a thing. They would be jumping on the whole "he thinks he's the messiah" crap they tried to pull out when he got inaugurated.
IOKIYAR
He won by 12 points last time and even refused to debate Bill White. I don't think it was closer than 10 in any election. And he would win again - huge. What the heck is Cavuto talking about? Maybe the Tea Party doesn't like him, but so what? I loathe Perry but the guy is a good politician - very good, actually. (Yeah, I know, it's the FOX news crowd, but, still, he knows how to work that demographic. Heck, even that HPV vaccine fiasco didn't hurt him, or the Trans-Texas thing with a fer-in' company building it.)
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
against their best interests, hence the super-majority of right-wingers in the legislature.
Anyone running for office as a republican can say that he wants to kill all kids in Texas, they would win the election. I live in Texas and I know that the majority of Texans are just plain nuts. There's just a very few of us who have an inkling of how to think for ourselves and vote Democratic.(heavy sigh)
Is he really a good politician? How much of this is just the ignorance of the American people? I mean, Bush was a bumbling fool and got elected twice to the Presidency of the United States. There's no way he was a good politician. I know about the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the first election and voting shenanigans in the second election, but how on God's Earth did Bush even get close enough that those machinations would have an effect?
-- obsess5, whose head has been in a continuous state of explosion for the past 10 years.
of grandeur......how original.
Keep the fucker talking.
So, who's your messiah now?
in her oh so perceptive discussion of Perry's wide unpopularity in Texas is that he has won six straight statewide elections. In four of those races his opponents included incumbent statewide elected officials of both parties.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Ricky... a bit of thought would help you to realize that that says less about Mr. Perry than it does the Tea Party faithful LIV that live in this state.
Just sayin'
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
To sum up, that means either 51% of the state are bone fide morons, or they seriously rig every election. Either way, not looking good in Texas.
far left loon >.<
Perry smart, voters dumb.
Or at least Perry is smarter than the dumb voters.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Perry is not loved because he is a snake, a crook, and a hypocrite. He is a cancer on the state of Texas.
...the most powerful nation on earth, and in history, can entertain the idea that a delusional Jesus pimp like Perry could actually be the leader of such a country?
Oh wait... I forgot about the last Governor of Texas that got there....never mind.
"we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and [to] bid defiance to the laws of our country." …..Thomas Jefferson
A report from the Texas Legislative Study Group found that Texas is ranked:
1st in a number of areas of hazardous and toxic waste emissions.
1st in percent of children without health insurance.
1st in percentage of people without health insurance.
2nd in # of students enrolled in public schools, but only 33rd in average public school teacher salary.
5th in income inequality between the rich and middle class.
9th in income inequality between the rich and poor.
34th in percent of children who have received full immunizations.
43rd in high school graduation rate.
44th in average state funding per pupil.
45th in SAT scores.
49th in both the percent of low-income population covered by Medicaid.
49th in per-capita state spending in Medicaid.
4th in the percent of children living in poverty.
50th in percent of people over the age of 25 with at least a high school diploma.
50th in workers compensation coverage.
Umm... Governor Perry, we don't dislike you because you're a prophet... rather, we dislike you because you're a useless putz.
Slinging bible verses around when they seem to suit your political agenda, or rather, sir, the agenda of your handlers, is singularly unattractive. Were you a Muslim and quoted the Qur'an, the Hadith, the Nahj, or any other scripture that you've never bothered to even learn about, you would have been roasted on a spit, after, perhaps, some visits to your home and office by DHS.
We don't like you because you're a sanctimonious, closeted homophobic shill for your corporate masters and you've never met a business proposition you didn't like, and you've never met a social program that you did.
In short, sir, we dislike you because you're a useless piece of shit who'd be more suited to being a deacon in some blab-it-and-grab-it church in East Texas somewhere.
Just thought I'd clear up that little matter.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
is not the voice of the Almighty
Get a brain, you dolt!
He heard it said that Bush, Jr. was crashing and burning and figured, "Close enough... I'll wear that mantle."
Auuuuuugggggghhhhhhh!
(and the governor is a moran)
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
So now Perry is a Prophet huh?
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
And since Rick Perry advocated the secession from the union for TX, it would be highly unlikely that his leadership would be approprite to the union and in particular to a democracy. Perry is far to accustomed to his self righteous dictums from his throne, he would hardly have the patience to govern for all the people. Stay in TX, Mr. Perry, you can execute people without mercy and deprive the hungry and starve the children and nobody notices.
CarmanK
"Middle class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action." Paul Krugman.
For crying out loud! This guy might. might have a shot at the primary, but no one would ever give him the pass Texans give him in the general election. He has at best, a very slim chance at running for the presidency, much less winning it.
As for his 'prophet' line? Well, any who has ever read the bible know that it warns of 'false prophets' leading people astray. Treat Perry in the same vein.
I must be a fecking prothet then. As i obviously am, here are my statements.
Drink beer every day, if you do not you'll die a horrible death.
Only drink wine from a pint glass. You don't want to look like a posh Frenchy.
Metal is thy lord.
So it is writen, so it be done.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
All hail Prophet Alerta, Peace upon him!
Only thing, oh Prophet, is that you didn't address the... ummm... other "burning bush"
If beer is a sacrament, am I a heretic for asking for an additional to be added to the list? Pretty please?
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
prophet, or tea party puppet? my money is on puppet.
doesn't he. A prophet is generally not loved in THEIR hometown. Did this leader of men even attend college?
What a dipshit.
I have no words
NOBODY 2012
Just ask him what he was doing in Istanbul in 2007, dining with the Masters of the Universe...
'Big Dawg' Clinton met with them in 1991. He became Prez. We get shafted with 'Free trade', NAFTA and GATT
Lil Georgie meets with them in 1999. He became Prez. Detailing the horrors since then would take too long.
Obama met with them in 2008. He became Prez. Might as well call himself 'Bush 2.1', as he's not only continued Junior's insane policies but gotten us involved in Libya.
And now Perry. Another tool willing to pimp himself...to the international banksters who created and profited so handsomely from the wars and the economic dislocations they created. While the country falls apart.
Yes, Perry is a Christianist nutbag who has made it clear he actually hates the United States of America with a black Democrat in the Oval Office. He would like nothing more than to make our country a theocracy ruled over by Evangelical clerics, large corporations and the fossil fuels industry.
As far as the Republican base goes, these aren't bugs—they're features. That's why Perry will cruise to the GOP nomination once he declares. The Teabaggers and the Christianist wingnuts who are disproportiately powerful during the GOP primaries will never accept Romney because of his religion.
"I say that a prophet is generally not loved in their hometown." Ricky--prophet, his hometown or prophets, their hometowns. I think I knew that by like 3rd grade.
Janek
Their followers did not fare so well.
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