{"id":60,"date":"2013-06-20T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/20\/perry-is-out-setting-stage-for-abbott"},"modified":"2013-06-20T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T20:21:00","slug":"perry-is-out-setting-stage-for-abbott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Perry is out, setting stage for Abbott?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gov. Rick Perry says he hasn\u2019t yet decided whether to seek his zillionth term as Texas governor.<\/p>\n

State Attorney General Greg Abbott says he hasn\u2019t yet decided whether to run for Perry\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t believe either man. They\u2019ve both decided. They\u2019ve talked it over. They\u2019re just waiting for the right time to spill the beans.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/20\/speculation-mounts-decision-nears-perry\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Abbott\u2019s already running for governor. He\u2019s out raising money and trying to position himself as the heir apparent to the longest-serving governor in Texas history. Perry, meanwhile, hasn\u2019t not been raising money and instead is touring the Northeast to talk about how business-friendly Texas is, especially to companies toiling in high-tax, high-regulation states such as New York and Connecticut. Those activities don\u2019t sound like someone getting ready to run for re-election.<\/p>\n

Perry\u2019s time as governor has run out. He reportedly wants to run again \u2013 that\u2019s right \u2013 for president of the United States. Apparently the humiliation he suffered during his first run in early 2012 wasn\u2019t enough to dissuade him of his high ambition. So, by stepping away from the governor\u2019s office in January 2015 he can spend time cobbling together a presidential campaign that he hopes will take him farther than the first one did.<\/p>\n

The Texas Tribune reports, though, that the early reviews for Presidential Campaign No. 2 aren\u2019t so hot. He flubbed a reference to Libya by calling it Lebanon when talking about the Benghazi fire fight that killed four U.S. diplomats in September 2012. <\/p>\n

To borrow a word: Oops.<\/p>\n

I am one of many Texans who has grown tired of Rick Perry. Actually, I was tired of him long ago \u2026 about the time he took office after G.W. Bush\u2019s election as president.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s hoping the tea leaves are giving us good news in the days ahead.<\/p>\n\n

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Gov. Rick Perry says he hasn\u2019t yet decided whether to seek his zillionth term as Texas governor. State Attorney General Greg Abbott says he hasn\u2019t yet decided whether to run for Perry\u2019s office. I don\u2019t believe either man. They\u2019ve both decided. They\u2019ve talked it over. They\u2019re just waiting for the right time to spill the … Continue reading Perry is out, setting stage for Abbott?<\/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-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}