Fred Karger
The latest Suffolk University/7 News poll shows Texas Gov. Rick Perry tied for dead last in New Hampshire with, of all people, openly gay candidate Fred Karger. A screen grab from the poll is above (click to enlarge), and you can view the full PDF here. Karger and Perry are both at 0 percent — or just two out of 500 likely New Hampshire voters. From the Austin Chronicle:
Both were beaten handily by former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer, a protectionist flat-taxer who wants to end corporate tax loopholes and dismantle superPACs. Roemer’s five votes actually measured on the polls enough for him to be registered as getting 1% of the vote: His campaign site says that he is aiming for a whopping 5% in New Hampshire on Jan. 10.
Then, as if things could not get worse for Perry, he came in behind Michele Bachmann (four votes) – and she’s suspended her campaign!
So, where in that data do you think Perry’s people started sobbing into their “I miss ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ corporations are people too!” memory book?
And yet Perry is soldiering on! He must have som consultants who figure they can get a few more weeks fees from his campaign yet before it finally dies. Ain’t capitalism grand?
Darned tiny keys on this iphone. “some consultants”
Dubya assumed office (notice I didn’t use the phrase “was elected”, as that is still highly debatable) by simply appearing to be smarter than he really was. I suspect Perry thinks that if such a campaign tactic worked for good old Dubya, it’ll somehow work for him as well. What he fails to realize is that we have already been down that road once, and we’re not going back that way again.
This story is awesome on so many levels.
After JS: And as a recent cartoon reminded us, the first time plays as farce, the second as tragedy.
I’m absolutely no fan of Rick Perry (and certainly not a fan of Rick “Frothy Mix” Santorum, but come on, are we still pretending Gerorge W. Bush wasn’t elected – 12 years laters?! I umpire baseball, and when coaches come out yelling saying, “that wasn’t a strike,” or “he wasn’t out,” I always say, “look at the scoreboard, coach, as soon as I called it a strike the little strike light came on on the scoreboard, so it musthave been a strike.” George Bush was the 43rd president of he United States. Love it or hate it, get over it. Stop trying to rewrite history. The dispute was made and resolved more than a decade ago. Surely those sour grapes have fermented into wine by now.
This story is about the elections in 2012. Can we keep the comments related to is decade?