Absolutely wrong.
The facts are these; Romney had a poll surge across the entire South. He was leading Gingrich everywhere and including the Southern Tier.
Some Southern Republicans had begun to buy the Romney is inevitable...only he can beat Obama...crud that was propagandizing everyone from the establishment GOP.
Perry’s own viability as a Presidential candidate was its own seperate issue, but it was happening with the backdrop of Romney’s giant tsunami surge everywhere and including the South, which is normally not Romney country. It should have been Newt country or in a perfect world, Perry country, but for it to become Romney country was truly scary.
Again, not a Texas phenonomenon. Not at all.
Anyone who ignores that truth is spinning trying to put a bad light on Rick Perry’s decision. And that includes you, no dems. You came on a positive Perry/Newt thread and did just that.
The Perry disapproval in Texas was made clear...it was because people in Texas were tired of his running for President with only getting trashed in return and not fairing well, results wise. They do approve of him as their Governor. But as the facts show, at the same time, Romney was surging across the South including Texas Surging against Newt. Surging, period.
Rick Perry was focused like a laser beam on South Carolina and then on to the general election campaign. He hoped to help Newt against Romney, and he hopes to carry his small Federal Government Cause forward after helping Newt to the extent he could.
With Santorum still in, if Romney had won SC, even by a squeaker, and with Newt’s ex wife trashing him on the eve of SC, that would bode very ill for Newt against Romney, going forward.
It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that to help Newt against Romney in SC was critical, and that’s what Rick Perry did.
The Texas Poll was not responsible for it. The situation between Romney, Newt and Santorum in SC, and then going directly into FL where Romney is trying to take it by storm and finish Newt for good, coupled with Perry getting low numbers in SC polls, made that decision a given. It would have been the same decision if there were no such Texas poll.
Too bad you have to go here, no dems.
I don’t know how many people you are fooling in your grudged congratulation of Perry while harping on this turkey of a point, but I am not among the fooled.
I think you’ve hit most of the points correctly but there may be, (and I live in Texas) one additional factor for Perry’s lack of traction in Texas? My “feel” for the Texas electorate is, “Never Again” a Texan in the White House due in part to a growing sentiment among many Texans that they’d rather see the state secede and due in part to a growing disaffection with anything having to do with the Federal gov’t. I’m seeing that sentiment expressed, oddly enough, among the upper and middle income groups and across racial lines. I detect a serious decline in support for these “Federal” elections and more people tell me they’ll stay home or only participate in the local races.
Newt said last night that Perry’s support was “very helpful”. For Perry’s numbers being so low, it sure seems in retrospect that he had broad support.
Perry isn’t the glorified person across the political specturm as you proclaim. True he has been gov. over 10 years and will have 14 years when this term is up.
Perry only won the GOP primary by a 51.14% margin in 2010. He won the 2006 governors race with a 39.02% plurality.
Perry has about spent his political capital in Texas and time for him to move on and let someone else provide leadership to this state.
It looks like Newt benefited mightily from Perry dropping out and endorsing him. All Newt supporters should be grateful.