Rick Perry: "America needs me"

[RandySF]

The Texan with the slight Southern drawl who has called dozens of top Iowa Republican activists in the past few weeks sounds more and more like he’s about to run for president.

“I’m not ready to tell you that I’m ready to announce that I’m in,” Gov. Rick Perry told The Des Moines Register. “But I’m getting more and more comfortable every day that this is what I’ve been called to do. This is what America needs.”

Another big-name potential Republican presidential candidate who is still on the sidelines, Sarah Palin, told Fox News in May that she has “that fire in the belly” to run. It remains a question whether Perry does.

“I’ll be real honest with you, I don’t wake up in the morning – never did and still don’t today – and say, ‘Gee, I want to be president of the United States,’ ” Perry, 61, said by phone last week.

http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/07/16/texas-perry-starting-to-feel-called-to-run-for-president/

[donheld]

1. We need him like we need a kick in the crotch

[theaocp]

3. Or a bag on our hip.

He needs to keep prayin' for rain. Clown.

[Safetykitten]

11. Whole quote..."America needs me to take them to a gay bar".

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Since when does America need someone who was talking about

taking his state and seceding from America?

Sorry, Governor Goodhair. We need you like we need a case of hemorrhoids. No new Texans!

[YvonneCa]

5. "No New Texans!" LOVE it...

...:7

[Solly Mack]

4. lol

[chelsea0011]

6. Oh, great. Someone else with a "calling".

[yurbud]

7. America needs him to join W in political retirement--without the White House stop on the way

[somone]

8. Like a dog needs fleas

[Bozita]

9. When he does run, he's gonna say Gawd told him to do it.

Then, what will Michele Bachmann say?

[Dappleganger]

10. No, Texas. Please don't inflict yet another dumbass governor on the rest of the country.

[rustydog]

12. America needs Rick Perry like:

America needs to be anally raped by another Bush-lite republican hypocrite.

Take a hike you pseudo-christian zealot. We need you like we need to be kicked in the crotch every day for four years.

[Jazzgirl]

13. No Rick....we don't need you!

I don't want you here in Texas but I am sure the country REALLY doesn't want you either.

[tanyev]

14. Always room for one more in the clown car.

[WhiteTara]

15. Like a canker sore on a dog's ass is how much

we need The Goodhair.

[BeyondGeography]

16. Sorry, Goodhair, the quota on Presidents from Texas is one per century

And there's already a big push to have it revised downward.

[Wwagsthedog]

17. I think I'm going to throw up!

[Zorra]

18. ...to move to China" nt

[salin]

19. ... like a hole in the head

isn't he just asking for punch line?

[OHdem10]

20. God has called him. Here we go. He is setting up his stage.

I will give him credit. He knows that if he is elected
God Forbid) we are in a world of hurt in this country.
So get ready my friends for an old-fashioned Tent Meeting.
God has sent these woes upon us as a test. We must
live a good life and accept God's wishes. Suffer in
Silence. Do not be envious of your rich brothers and
sisters. God just meant for some people to be poor.

This way you cannot expect too much from him. It is all
in God's Hands.

Do not expect any of that New Testament--How you treat
the least among you.

To be honest, I do offer little prayers every day for
this country in the privacy of my space.

I do not want to give the impression that I am anti-
religion. No. No. I am very wary of people who wear
their religion on their sleeves and worse yet use
Religion to exploit and hope to get votes from unsuspecting
people.

[watercolors]

21. Need him like a hole in the head!!!! Dumb A-H

[xchrom]

22. God punks another republican. Nt

[CanonRay]

23. What an ego!

He's George Bush without the boyish charm (which was always lost on me)

[Safetykitten]

24. Rick Warren here...I smell a speech by me coming on!

[Uncle Joe]

25. Like a submarine needs screen doors.

Thanks for the thread, Randy.

[white_wolf]

26. Everytime I hear a politician say they've been called to do something I get scared.

I bet the leader of the Iranian Revolution felt called as well.

[Angry Dragon]

27. It sure sounds as if god as been making a lot of phone calls

Or Satan is just playing around

[LeftishBrit]

28. ..like a hole in the head.

[spanone]

29. what an ego. america doesn't need a deeper theocracy....stay in texas rick

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

30. Yeah like it needs gonorrhea. nt

[Orsino]

31. "Get me the fuck out of Texas before they find the other set of books!"

Yet another GOP governor needing to fail upward. They can't all be president next year, for fuck's sake.

[Zoeisright]

32. America needs you to go away, you dipwad.

[MilesColtrane]

33. He'll win the GOP nomination.

[spanone]

34. like an ass needs a cyst

[UTUSN]

35. Like an acute case of SHINGLES, which ought to be re-named "BUSH Disease"!1

Actually, without exaggeration, Goodhair is like Shrub without whatever Shrub's smartness and with more arrogance.

But my mantra, since the last ditch Rethug hopes for Goodhair to run, has been:


If he announces, the countdown begins to the day he WITHDRAWS!1

[dana_b]

36. yeah right

“I’ll be real honest with you, I don’t wake up in the morning – never did and still don’t today – and say, ‘Gee, I want to be president of the United States,’ ” Perry, 61, said by phone last week.

sure... we believe that. :eyes: