{"id":14437,"date":"2016-05-06T19:45:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T19:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14437"},"modified":"2016-05-06T19:45:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T19:45:26","slug":"political-alliances-are-shifting-rapidly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14437","title":{"rendered":"Political alliances are shifting … rapidly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rick Perry once called Donald J. Trump a “cancer on conservatism.”<\/p>\n

He then backed fellow Texan Ted Cruz, who — before bowing out of the Republican presidential campaign this past week — called Trump a “pathological liar.”<\/p>\n

Now the former Texas governor has endorsed Trump.<\/p>\n

I guess the “cancer” has been cured.<\/p>\n

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According to the Texas Tribune, Perry then offered up the obvious: “‘He is not a perfect man,’ Perry told (CNN). ‘But what I do believe is that he loves this country and he will surround himself with capable, experienced people and he will listen to them.'”<\/p>\n

There you go. Yesterday’s cancer becomes today’s panacea.<\/p>\n

This is part of what makes politics such a maddening thing to witness.<\/p>\n

Opponents are capable of saying the most horrific things about each other. Then, when opportunity knocks, they bury hatchets — and not in each other’s skulls — and make nice as if nothing ever happened.<\/p>\n

That’s what Perry seems to have done here. He also told CNN that he “wouldn’t say ‘no'” to Trump if the reality TV celebrity\/real estate mogul\/presumptive GOP presidential nominee offers a spot on the ticket this fall.<\/p>\n

For his part, Trump now says he’s going to stick with a true-blue Republican as his running mate. He wants someone with political experience. He’s also said something about selecting someone with legislative experience.<\/p>\n

Former Gov. Perry is a real Republican. He’s got loads of political know-how, although he has been unable to take the success he\u00a0enjoyed in Texas beyond the state’s borders. The legislative background is a bit sparse, as he didn’t serve all that long in the Texas Legislature before aspiring to statewide office.<\/p>\n

It appears, to me at least, that his willingness to endorse Trump after tearing the bark off of him before bowing out of the race himself, that he’s putting party loyalty first.<\/p>\n

As the Tribune reports: “Trump, Perry told CNN, ‘is one of the most talented people who has ever run for the president I have ever seen.'”<\/p>\n

Trump might have been a “cancer,” but he’s got talent.<\/p>\n

Go figure.<\/p>\n

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Rick Perry once called Donald J. Trump a “cancer on conservatism.” He then backed fellow Texan Ted Cruz, who — before bowing out of the Republican presidential campaign this past week — called Trump a “pathological liar.” Now the former Texas governor has endorsed Trump. I guess the “cancer” has been cured. https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/05\/05\/perry-endorses-trump-president\/ According to … Continue reading Political alliances are shifting … rapidly<\/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":[13,14,18],"tags":[1424,1941,3951,4537,4728],"class_list":["post-14437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-rick-perry","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437","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=14437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14439,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437\/revisions\/14439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}