Well, well, another candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination falls by the wayside.
Rick Perry will announce today that he’s going back to Texas to stay (for now).
Some might say good riddance but I say fare thee well.
After all, politics notwithstanding, Rick Perry is a likeable boob.
He's the kind of guy you’d happily loan your lawnmower to but you’d also have to be prepared to remind to put gas in it . . . or you just might watch him pull the starter cord for an awfully long time.
You know . . . sort of like a George W. Bush but without the rich parents.
Right?
I sort of hate to see the poor guy go.
It’s not like when Herman Cain ‘suspended’ his campaign.
Admit it, weren’t you absolutely dog-sick and tired of his stupid ‘nine-nine-nine’ mantra?
Did Cain actually think he had to keep repeating it, over and over, because, if he didn’t, we’d forget?
Or how about when Michele Bachmann quit?
Tell me the truth now; didn’t you feel a sense of relief when you realized you wouldn’t have to hear that shrill, nonsensical voice coming at you in every debate, at every campaign stop, and in every interview?
Puh-leeze!
But then, when Jon Huntsman left, didn’t you kind of feel like you knew what it would be like when the wheat was gone and only the chaff remained?
Didn’t that send a chill up and down your spine?
And, now, Rick Perry’s going back to Texas where he can be governor again, where he can talk about seceding from the union, where he can complain about but take millions from the federal government, where he can talk about having single-handedly created millions of jobs, where he can brag about being ‘commander-in-chief’ of that vast Texan army and all the rest of that rhetoric, true and untrue, but it won’t matter.
Why?
Because, down in Texas, they know the truth . . . even if Rick doesn’t.
So, it is not good riddance . . . it's fare thee well, Rick, it has been fun.
Hasn’t it?
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