{"id":7564,"date":"2014-12-21T03:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T03:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7564"},"modified":"2014-12-21T03:30:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T03:30:55","slug":"perry-to-aggies-im-thinking-about-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7564","title":{"rendered":"Perry to Aggies: I'm thinking about running"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here’s a news flash: Texas Gov. Rick Perry said some other things to college graduates\u00a0besides declining an offer to have a building named after him at Texas A&M University.<\/p>\n

Such as — he’s thinking about running for president of the United States of America.<\/p>\n

That’s kind of a big deal, yes?<\/p>\n

Perry spoke at the Texas A&M convocation. He told graduates the school from which he graduated shouldn’t name the Academic Building after him. Then he went on to say that he’s pondering another run for the White House.<\/p>\n

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He ticked off his credentials as someone who governed a state with the world’s 13th-largest economy and oversaw a group of individuals who “bicker a lot,” referring to the Legislature.<\/p>\n

He told the A&M grads he’ll be looking for a job in about 30 days, just as they will.<\/p>\n

Is this a precursor to a presidential run? Yes, it sounds like it to me.<\/p>\n

I hope he jumps in. I’ve already spoken out in favor of Mitt Romney getting back into the game. I’m inclined also to welcome Jeb Bush into the Republican presidential field.<\/p>\n

Why not — to coin the late Molly Ivins’s term — Gov. Goodhair?<\/p>\n

He’s got the look, the charisma, some governing experience and he’s developing a pretty good gift of gab.<\/p>\n

Perry’s ideas about the role of government, though, don’t quite set well with some of us out here. He’s inclined to be anti-federal government, which is sort of an\u00a0dubious stance for someone who wants to oversee<\/em> it.<\/p>\n

But what the heck. He gave us a few laughs the last time he ran for the White House in 2012. Maybe he’s got a few more gag lines up his sleeve the next time around.<\/p>\n

Bring it, governor!<\/p>\n

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Here’s a news flash: Texas Gov. Rick Perry said some other things to college graduates\u00a0besides declining an offer to have a building named after him at Texas A&M University. Such as — he’s thinking about running for president of the United States of America. That’s kind of a big deal, yes? Perry spoke at the … Continue reading Perry to Aggies: I'm thinking about running<\/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":[14,18,1],"tags":[73,2429,3101,3951,4576,4653],"class_list":["post-7564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","category-uncategorized","tag-2016-campaign","tag-jeb-bush","tag-mitt-romney","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas-am","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564","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=7564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}