Wow, the Perry presidential candidacy has to be one of the hottest political topics running the national spectrum these days. Yesterday, Peggy Fikac of the Chronicle/Express-News political reporting team wrote about the latest buzz on Perry’s non-candidacy. As Fikac quoted, Perry kept the buzz alive by saying he’ll “think about it.” Perry then went on to say “I think about a lot of things.” My favorite quote from the article was by Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “He’s taking a cue from Sarah Palin. You’ll know he’s serious when he gets a bus,” said Sabato. Sabato’s probably right. When we see the heavily decaled bus pull up to the rented governor’s mansion then we’ll know the Perry candidacy has official begun.
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Lately there has been a lot of buzz about the tea party movement in America, the latest being a move by Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-MN) to formally bring them into the Republican Party. There has also been some back and forth between Sarah Palin’s camp and Mitt Romney’s camp as reported by Politico. If you ask tea party movement organizers it’s not as formal as many would like to think, hence my reference in lower case. Movement organizers say it’s more about common ideas espoused by a segment of the voter population than an organized political party. But is it relevant in the overall political landscape? Read more…
Yesterday Sarah Palin once again grabbed headlines and the blogosphere with her announcement that she would not seek re-election and would resign as governor of the State of Alaska at the end of July. In that announcement Palin once again showed her ignorance of public service and what it is really all about. “I thought about how much fun other governors have as lame ducks. They maybe travel around their state, travel to other states, maybe take their overseas international trade missions,” said Palin in her press conference. Palin tried to use this as her excuse for why she was exiting early. Unfortunately no one bought in and speculation on Palin’s true motives has begun. Palin, for all her “soccer mom” honesty, demonstrated once again why she would be one of the worst choices for the presidency. Read more…
The Dallas Morning News reported yesterday that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has endorsed Rick Perry in his bid for re-election as governor of the state of Texas calling him the “true conservative.” The endorsement came in a letter sent to 10,500 members of the Texas Federation of Republican Women who, according to the article, have been crucial in the past to the support of US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Hutchison is planning a challenge to Gov. Perry’s re-election bid in 2010. Read more…
Wow, the Perry presidential candidacy has to be one of the hottest political topics running the national spectrum these days. Yesterday, Peggy Fikac of the Chronicle/Express-News political reporting team wrote about the latest buzz on Perry’s non-candidacy. As Fikac quoted, Perry kept the buzz alive by saying he’ll “think about it.” Perry then went on to say “I think about a lot of things.” My favorite quote from the article was by Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “He’s taking a cue from Sarah Palin. You’ll know he’s serious when he gets a bus,” said Sabato. Sabato’s probably right. When we see the heavily decaled bus pull up to the rented governor’s mansion then we’ll know the Perry candidacy has official begun.
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