Rick Perry is out

[Charmonium]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/11/rick-perry-drops-out-republican-presidential-election

Former Texas governor Rick Perry has announced that he is dropping out of the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
Perry is first in the Republican field to exit the race. His campaign ran into financial trouble after did not poll high enough to participate in the first presidential debate.

 

[Spungo]

I thought this was a thread about gayness. My mistake.

 

[Moonbeam]

Good, Trump will get his supporters.

 

[ivwshane]

1 down, 23 more to go! It's surprising that he's out before some of the others though. Then again, this primary is nothing like anything I've ever seen before!

 

[Indus]

Damnit I lost a bet with buddies. I thought Jindal would be the first one out.

 

[shira]

The question is, which candidate will he endow with his 6 supporters?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Makes sense closed his offices, stopped paying staff and the final insult is sitting at the kids table again.

 

[JSt0rm]

rick perry WILL be your next president.

 

[JEDIYoda]

It took Rick Perry this long to grasp the fact that he had no chance in Hell or any other place of getting the nomination???

 

[JSt0rm]

It took Rick Perry this long to grasp the fact that he had no chance in Hell or any other place of getting the nomination???

He will pop his head up every 4 years to look for his shadow.

 

[Theb]

Who will be the new Republican Primary Pull-up Champion?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

So much for the smartening glasses.

 

[Paratus]

Oops!

 

[trenchfoot]

So who's next?

I wonder what the odds are in Vegas.

 

[shira]

This gem of a comment was to a conservative blog on the Washington Post website:

Rick Perry is suspending his presidential bid. That's a crying shame after all he's done. Like brought nuclear dumping to West Texas,gutted the Forestry dept and the fire fighting budget during a severe Texas drought,used religion to rationalize unfathomable logic. The list goes on. He will be missed.

 

[Charmonium]

This gem of a comment was to a conservative blog on the Washington Post website:

As Jesus said

"Truly I tell you," he continued, "no prophet is accepted in his hometown home country.

 

[UberNeuman]

Rick Perry's campaign sent out this final video....

 

[soulcougher73]

But i thought "Rick Perry WILL be the next president"?

 

[werepossum]

rick perry WILL be your next president.

. . . Of your local John Birch chapter. Assuming he runs unopposed - Bubba will be pretty hard to beat if he finishes his 11/29 for public intoxication in time.

 

[hal2kilo]

He was done a long time ago. He would never over come this F'up.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...onds-that-defined-rick-perrys-political-life/

 

[TheGardener]

Are you really in the race, if you never leave the gate.

Ya, those Harvard MBA glasses worked wonders for making him smarter. Just like Jenny McCarthy on The View.

 

[MongGrel]

Katy Perry had a better chance to begin with ...

 

[trenchfoot]

Touchy subject but nevertheless, because Perry heavily relied on the use of his religious faith to pander to his constituents for his personal gain, I think it fair game to ask him what he thinks this failure of his means from that point of view.

I'd really like to hear from him in this regard.

 

[Balt]

It took Rick Perry this long to grasp the fact that he had no chance in Hell or any other place of getting the nomination???

To be fair, there are 10 other candidates (at least) with no chance in hell who still haven't grasped it. Bobby Jindal has about as much of a chance of getting nominated as Donald Duck.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

He will pop his head up every 4 years to look for his shadow.

I'd say its safe to assume this is it. I doubt he'll even do news commentary because nobody is interested in him.