{"id":422,"date":"2013-03-29T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/29\/end-in-sight-for-perry-era"},"modified":"2013-03-29T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T16:41:00","slug":"end-in-sight-for-perry-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"End in sight for Perry era?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Alexander Burns, writing in Politico.com, posits an interesting theory about Texas Gov. Rick Perry.<\/p>\n

The end of his political career may be at hand, given the absence of who he calls the \u201cpolitical knife fighters\u201d who helped him become Texas\u2019s longest-serving governor.<\/p>\n

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Perry\u2019s spectacularly brief foray into national politics in late 2011 and early 2012 gave rise to a lot of questions about the product of Haskell County, Texas. Those questions centered on just how it is that he became such a political force in Texas while proving to be such a profound embarrassment beyond our state\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n

He entered the 2012 Republican primary contest and became an instant favorite to win his party\u2019s nomination. But it all came crashing down in January 2012 when, after a series of amazing stumbles, gaffes and ghastly pronouncements, he dropped out of the contest.<\/p>\n

Perry is now trying to decide whether run for an umpteenth term as governor and whether \u2013 and this one is beyond belief \u2013 whether he wants to make another run for president in 2016.<\/p>\n

But as Burns points out, the hired hands who\u2019ve been Perry\u2019s brain trust have bailed on him. One of them, Burns reports, is former campaign manager Dave Carney, who reportedly has met with Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who\u2019s considering a run for governor himself in 2014. He might even challenge Perry in the primary if Gov. Goodhair (to borrow the late columnist Molly Ivins\u2019s legendary label) decides to seek another term.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so hoping that Perry has had enough. He\u2019s been governor long enough, since December 2000, when he succeeded George W. Bush after Bush\u2019s election to the presidency. That\u2019s 13-plus years.<\/p>\n

I keep remembering the comments I heard from many of my Republican friends when Perry entered the 2012 GOP presidential primary campaign. They told me they were pulling for him to win the presidency \u201cif only to get him out of Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

And this, mind you, came from those who live and work in the heart of Rick Perry\u2019s Republican base.<\/p>\n\n

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Alexander Burns, writing in Politico.com, posits an interesting theory about Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The end of his political career may be at hand, given the absence of who he calls the \u201cpolitical knife fighters\u201d who helped him become Texas\u2019s longest-serving governor. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/03\/rick-perry-texas-governor-staff-consultants-89430.html?hp=t1_3 If only \u2026 Perry\u2019s spectacularly brief foray into national politics in late … Continue reading End in sight for Perry era?<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}