And yet, despite all the factors auguring a run, Perry remains further from hurling himself into the fray than some assume. What that means, according to people close to the governor, is that Team Perry has not even started any rigorous evaluation of the elements that he would weigh in his decision—in terms of fund-raising, organization, and so on. Running for president is a hellish business, even for those who have wanted desperately, achingly to be commander-in-chief since they could lace up their shoes.
And that emphatically does not describe Rick Perry—a man who, unlike so many Republicans who claim to be anti-Washington but in fact would love nothing more than to call Pennsylvania home, genuinely seems to despise the place and everything it stands for.
Yet even if the governor does stay out, this moment of highly pitched pining for Perry has revealed something important. Not just that Republicans are unsatisfied with their current field but that one of the key things fueling that discontent is the absence on the part of the candidates of a set of prescriptions remotely commensurate, substantively or politically, with the scale of the jobs crisis.
Of course, as distressed as this makes Republicans, it is, no doubt, a source of comfort for Obama—except that he has no big ideas on jobs, either, which is why he continues to be at risk of winding up unemployed himself. E-mail: jheilemann gmail.
Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. It's got some gaps in it, but in Texas we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools. Because I figure you're smart enough to figure out which one is right," he told a young boy in downtown Portsmouth.
The voting age has been 18 since Texans wanting a break from Rick Perry are finding it increasingly hard to get away from the former year governor of Texas. On Wednesday, Perry published an opinion piece on HoustonChronicle.
To non-Texans who might not be familiar with Perry's unique style, weighing in on what the New York Times called "the most local of politics" might come as a surprise. But Lone Star State residents are no strangers to Perry, who has been a staunch and very outspoken conservative in Texas politics for decades. Less recently, Perry raised eyebrows when he was selected by Trump to run the Department of Energy, an agency he vowed to eliminate while on the campaign trail in But the best way for Perry to diffuse problems his cowboy image might cause him -- whether among GOP primary voters divided on foreign policy, or a war weary general electorate -- is to deliberately play against type.
Perry saw it from the cockpit of a C and left the Air Force with the rank of captain," Williamson wrote. He's been pretty tight-lipped on his foreign-policy views, but there is good reason to hope that his commitment to limited government and balanced budgets might put a damper on the Republican party's more adventuresome foreign-policy tendencies. Isn't it pretty to think so? But Perry supported Rudy Giuliani in "on the theory that Rudy would be a bad-ass commander-in-chief abroad and a reliable constitutionalist at home," in Williamson's words.
Strange to back Giuliani if what you want is a less adventuresome foreign policy, isn't it? Oh well, never mind that. If Perry wants to be a fiscal hawk who ends ill-conceived foreign wars, he can be -- especially now that Obama has given all his opponents an opportunity to skewer him for an illegal and strategically questionable war in Libya. Maybe only a cowboy can not launch foreign military adventures. Maybe Gov. Perry is doomed for the irrational reason that, when you listen to him speak -- ignoring the content, and paying attention to speech patters and accent only -- he can't help but remind you of someone else.
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