{"id":10848,"date":"2015-09-04T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2015-09-04T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T13:00:20","slug":"perry-heading-for-the-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10848","title":{"rendered":"Perry heading for the exit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It isn’t supposed to end this way, but that’s where it’s headed.<\/p>\n

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the one-time TEA Party darling and conservative firebrand, is — shall we say — in a critical flameout.<\/p>\n

The former U.S. Air Force pilot knows of what I speak. His campaign “engine” has stalled and he cannot get it to reignite.<\/p>\n

I am not crying crocodile tears over this. Honestly, I was hoping he’d do better in this presidential campaign than he did in the previous one that was punctuated by the infamous “oops” moment.<\/p>\n

Perry campaign on the ropes<\/a><\/p>\n

Perry pulled the plug on his 2012 Republican presidential campaign, came back to Texas to finish his stint as the state’s governor; he rested up, cracked the books and studied the issues; then he returned to the campaign hoping to redeem himself.<\/p>\n

Being that I prefer political\u00a0redemption over condemnation in almost all cases, I was pulling for Perry to do better.<\/p>\n

He’s not. He has run into the buzzsaw aka Donald Trump. The TEA Party faithful have turned to others, such as Trump, Rick Santorum, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina … oh, I could go on, but you get the point.<\/p>\n

Perry has quit paying his campaign staff. He’ giving up on New Hampshire. Still, he calls the race a “marathon” and insists he’s in it for the duration.<\/p>\n

Well, it now appears that the duration<\/em> has arrived.<\/p>\n

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It isn’t supposed to end this way, but that’s where it’s headed. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the one-time TEA Party darling and conservative firebrand, is — shall we say — in a critical flameout. The former U.S. Air Force pilot knows of what I speak. His campaign “engine” has stalled and he cannot get … Continue reading Perry heading for the exit?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[59,73,1424,5433,3951,4531,4627],"class_list":["post-10848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2012-campaign","tag-2016-campaign","tag-donald-trump","tag-republican-campaign","tag-rick-perry","tag-tea-party","tag-texas-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10850,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions\/10850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}