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Perry 2016?
“2016 is way down the road, but I’ll assure you one thing, if I decide to run for the presidency in 2016, I’ll be way in before the summer of 2016; 2015, even,” Perry said.
Perry said he loves America and he would “give it a good examination” as long as he stays in good health and his family remains supportive. He said he doesn’t have to make the decision yet.
There’s also been speculation that Perry wants to run for governor again in 2014.
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Why would he want to challenge Romney for the nomination? It is almost impossible for someone to bump a sitting President for the nomination. The point is, why are these Republicans already conceding the election to President Obama? Obama has a lot of reason to be worried. In fact, I sort of wonder if he hopes he loses because he does not enjoy the job so much.
duggersd on April 19, 2012 at 8:12 AM
Nice man – no thanks.
The GOP needs to be taken over by conservative WOMEN…
Enough with the white man already.
Women are ready to straighten out this nation.
Come on ladies – step up and take over this inept party’s leadership.
Please
jake-the-goose on April 19, 2012 at 8:12 AM
These kind of articles are just mean
SIGH – what could have been!
gophergirl on April 19, 2012 at 8:13 AM
Alternate Headline: Perry assumes that Romney loses to Obama this year?
ShainS on April 19, 2012 at 8:14 AM
It is reassuring that Perry loves America.
Pablo Honey on April 19, 2012 at 8:15 AM
What the hell is with all this 2016 speculation? Can these guys at least pay lip service to the possibility that Romney actually wins this thing? He is leading in every poll that doesn’t use a heavily skewed sample.
Doughboy on April 19, 2012 at 8:15 AM
Is this really “Republicans”? I think it’s more how SeeBS wrote the story. To them, Obama’s re-election is a done deal because “nobody they know” would vote Republican.
rhombus on April 19, 2012 at 8:16 AM
^– This –^
eforhan on April 19, 2012 at 8:16 AM
It’s going to be Romney again in 2016 unless we need to primary him out of office…
wildcat72 on April 19, 2012 at 8:18 AM
The reporter asked him a specific question about running in 2016 in a one on one interview. His response started with “2016 is way down the road…” the article ends with him complimenting Romney for getting in early.
Goodness, you Mittbots get your knickers in a twist over nothing. No one is threatening your precious.
bitsy on April 19, 2012 at 8:19 AM
Don’t get me wrong, I love my Governor, but 2016 or 2020 belong to 2016 or 2020. Four years is a whole lot of time for stuff to happen that could totally negate the reasons for getting behind him that looked so good back in 2012. I’d be happy if he runs, but nobody had better be figuring which skids to grease and which primaries to make into a forced-choice. Let the bodies hit the floor, let 2016 or 2020 be an honest fight, and people will be much more accepting of the winner.
Sekhmet on April 19, 2012 at 8:20 AM
If he has time. The Republican party may be in the wilderness for a long time after Romney.
rickv404 on April 19, 2012 at 8:24 AM
Pauline Kael-”Nobody I know voted for Nixon”
Rick Perry-”I don’t think Romney will be elected”.
Clink on April 19, 2012 at 8:27 AM
Texas, Arizona, and the Gulf Coast are number one on Obama’s enemy list. It has felt like a cold war down here since 2009. He has attacked our economy, our healthcare, our voting, and he is arming bloodthirsty drug gangs on the border. What on earth is he going to try if he gets re-elected? The only thing left is predator drones over Houston and Dallas suburbs.
I don’t think Perry is thinking about Mitt at all when he makes those comments about 2016. He is thinking about Obama and how is going to defend Texas from him for four more years. Mitt is a decent guy, but he does not have a lock on the next election. We all want him to win, but Romney doesn’t exactly have a winning election record. Perry is a leader, and as a leader, he is planning for worst case scenarios.
bitsy on April 19, 2012 at 8:39 AM
I don’t believe conservatives will ever take the party back, despite some gains in Congress and local elections. We will always be useful idiots to the GOP and we are wasting valuable time wishing and hoping. The GOP will always seek to destroy conservatives and foist more Romneys on us. We need a national Conservative Party and we need to shake the dust of the GOP from our sandals and never look back.
swinia sutki on April 19, 2012 at 8:40 AM
The only reason the mainstream media continues to run these “will so and so run in 2016″ stories is to push the idea that even leading Republicans consider the 2012 election already lost to President Obama. That I understand, and we can’t expect different from the liberal media.
What I can’t understand is why these prominent Republicans are so easily falling into the trap. Are they really that naive to not realize what is being done? Or do they actually want to see Romney lose to Obama because they perceive that defeat as setting them up for success in 2016? Either way, it needs to stop.
The only answer a Republican should be giving right now is something along the lines of “Our party needs to unite behind Mitt Romney, our nominee, to defeat Obama this year, which I am confident will happen, and not be focused on future elections.”
Shump on April 19, 2012 at 8:42 AM
Breaking news:
Chuck Colson has died. RIP
ToddPA on April 19, 2012 at 8:46 AM
My only problem with this kind of talk is the 2016 part…because it assumes we’re going to be stuck with Dear Leader for 4 more years.
Other than that, I’d love to see Perry run again. I still say he was the most qualified candidate running this year. If he ever runs again, he should stay off the pain killers, though.
DRayRaven on April 19, 2012 at 8:49 AM
Do you really think Romney will run again …. I mean he has been running since 06 there abouts …. I kinda figured he would quit after this time … /
conservative tarheel on April 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM
Is this really “Republicans”? I think it’s more how SeeBS wrote the story. To them, Obama’s re-election is a done deal because “nobody they know” would vote Republican.
rhombus on April 19, 2012 at 8:16 AM
We’ve been hearing this for quite awhile now, and not just in this story. Ace acknowledged it (and firmly rejected it) in an April 13 post awhile ago. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/328399.php
The meme among Republican insiders, supposedly, is that Obama is invincible and we need to focus on capturing the Senate. The meme further states that Romney was selected as nominee primarily to stem the bleeding from the expected loss of the presidential race.
One can conclude from this that the Republicans think Obama’s policies are popular. I will leave it as an exercise to you folks to consider why this is, despite the years of polling data to the contrary.
Careful not to fall into the “nobody I know voted for Nixon” trap. There’s really only a small minority of politically plugged in people who understand how much damage Obama has done and just how bad he really is.
Also don’t forget that Romney’s only been in the lead a short time. Lots of other Republicans were ahead of Romney at one time or other in the primary as well. Obama has not yet really begun deploying his campaign warchest.
Doomberg on April 19, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Romney is going to win. But what everyone has figured out is that we are in a depression which might last longer than the great depression. Obama held off the worst of the deflation with massive gov’t spending. If Romney stops that spending then the economy will tank in 2013. It will take 2 to 3 years of misery before prices find their market clearing level.
On the other hand Romney could continue the easy money/big spending ways of Obama. With either scenario Romney will be vulnerable for a challenge from the right in 2016. Reagan nearly did it during a time when the economy wasn’t nearly as bad.
Romney’s biggest challenge will be getting reelected.
Bill C on April 19, 2012 at 9:09 AM
If Romney actually cuts spending and shuts down the money printing, I would crawl over broken glass to vote for his re-election and I suspect most of the rest of the political right would as well (unless you mean his primary challenger would be a RINO who promises to turn the spending spigot back on, which is entirely possible). But, if he is elected, your second scenario is far more likely to happen.
If Romney is elected and the economy hasn’t collapsed by 2016, get ready for a primary battle that will make this one look like a day at the fair.
Doomberg on April 19, 2012 at 9:15 AM
PERRY/WEST 2012
America needs you both!
Pragmatic on April 19, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Pretty much the way I see it. The only thing that could save Romney would be some terrible consequence of 0bama’s foreign policy striking in an unmistakeable manner in the next four years—-which has happened before.
Most sane people understood that George W Bush, his Administration and staff had barely found the restroom keys to the Oval Office when 9-11 hit. The plot was obviously put together before a statistical tie of the 2000 election had taken place. 9-11 Trutherism was just a pathetic attempt to find a way to blame George W Bush instead of Bill Clinton.
But most folks who use tinfoil to wrap baking pans instead of headgear could see that the failures that led to 9-11 were by and large the fault of the Clinton Administration, and saw nothing from the Left but the same denialism that would lead to another 9-11 if given another chance. THIS is a big reason Bush won in 2004.
Sekhmet on April 19, 2012 at 9:39 AM
Um, no thanks!
Valkyriepundit on April 19, 2012 at 9:40 AM
jake-the-goose on April 19, 2012 at 8:12 AM
I’m a woman and I couldn’t disagree more.
I’m not gonna vote for someone just because we have similar anatomy.
I want QUALIFIED people.
I don’t care what they look like.
annoyinglittletwerp on April 19, 2012 at 9:40 AM
PERRY/WEST 2012
America needs you both!
Pragmatic on April 19, 2012 at 9:17 AM
West pandered over Martin/Zimmerman.
Pass.
annoyinglittletwerp on April 19, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Breaking news:
Chuck Colson has died. RIP
ToddPA on April 19, 2012 at 8:46 AM
I’m Jewish, but Mr. Colson was a good man.
RIP Sir.
annoyinglittletwerp on April 19, 2012 at 9:43 AM
He just wants to be in the news. This isn’t the 20s.
Machine hacks with little political skills like Perry can win statewide elections in very red or very blue states but they have no chance whatsoever in the big league.
joana on April 19, 2012 at 9:50 AM
Nah…this was his best shot, and he wasn’t up for it. Oh well.
changer1701 on April 19, 2012 at 9:58 AM
It certainly contrasts with President God D*amn AmeriKKKa!
CorporatePiggy on April 19, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Let’s hope we still have free elections in 2016.
Elisa on April 19, 2012 at 10:23 AM
Career politician?
MeatHeadinCA on April 19, 2012 at 10:23 AM
That’s how I feel.
It just wasn’t meant to be.
If Perry didn’t have that back surgery last summer, I am convinced he would have done very well and been our nominee and our President.
but it wasn’t in the cards.
God help us.
Elisa on April 19, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Too bad.
Good man.
May he rest in peace.
Elisa on April 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Where is our Kasich?!?
MeatHeadinCA on April 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Buck up, Joana. Maybe Lincoln Chaffee will run in ’16/’20, and you can go support him.
Sekhmet on April 19, 2012 at 10:41 AM
joana:
It appears that you prefer a wimp (Romney) vs. a real man (Perry).
You are entitled to your choice. But for me. .
Perry/West 2012
…..Some of us are willing to wait for the good stuff
Pragmatic on April 19, 2012 at 1:17 PM