Texas Gov. Rick Perry pulled out of conservative straw poll
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/09/18/art.0918-1.jpg caption="Gov. Rick Perry is currently battling Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison for the GOP nomination."]
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry was originally included on 2012 Presidential Straw Poll ballot at this weekend's Values Voter Summit in Washington, but his staff requested that his name be removed.
A spokesman for Perry's re-election campaign told CNN that the request was made because the two-term governor is not thinking about running for President, but is instead "focused on running for governor." Perry is currently battling Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison for the GOP nomination.
The governor, however, is still attending the conference and is slated to speak on Saturday.
The potential Republican candidates on the straw poll ballot are: former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
Four of the Republicans on the ballot will actually attend the event.Pence, Huckabee and Pawlenty will address the conference on Friday morning, while Romney will deliver remarks on Saturday.
Out of that bunch, Pawlenty and Romney are the only two with even a slight chance of winning the election.
That is too bad. Certainly anyone who promotes seceding from the US would be a top candidate from the party of wingnuts.
Please none of the names they just named, stand a snowball chance in he!! to win against President Obama.
Given a year in which basically everything Ron Paul predicted either happened or is showing signs of being about to happen, it will be interesting to see how he fares in in the poll.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is running against Perry for the governor's seat. I hope she wins. We'll have a better governor and hopefully a better Senator as a result. The good citizens of my native state have a strong preference for not-too-bright leadership.
Where is Steel name or why isn't it in The potential Republican candidates on the straw poll ballot are: former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
straw poll? should be re-named BOOB POLL
Perry was afraid he would get 0 votes. What a wimp. Perry is a career politician seeking vanity and self-glorification. He needs to retire and get a regular job like everyone else.
Republicans are looking to that snarky Rick Santorum to get them back in the White House?
He lost his Senae seat by 20 points in 2006.
They must be worse off than anybody thought.
No wonder they're running around, screaming all this radical nonsense...
Perry is a total dud and will loose to Hutchison.
My god is this the worst of the worse..Hypcrites all of them..Pence in my opinion is a pure and simple idiot, some of the crap that comes out of his mouth is unbelieveable, unless that is what you believe. This list is good fodder for SNL.
No Palin? Too busy with Facebook and Twitter, I suppose.
What a blister on the state of Texas. Well, they deserve this right-wing nut. They keep voting for hime.
Talk about the usual low-life, no-morals, can't-speakie-d-English suspects. More a like car full of clowns. They could'nt spell leadership between the lot of them, much less execute it.
Republicans crack me up. LOL.
For which country would he be running for President, the United States of America, or the new country he wants to form when Texas secedes from the rest of the union?
I didn't vote for him for Governor, and I certainly won't be again. I wouldn't vote for him for dog catcher. Even though I know a Democrat has little chance of winning any high political position in Texas, at least I have the satisfaction of knowing this idiot never got my vote.
Joe Wilson is missing from this list. Palin-Wilson 2012. Would'nt that plain talking duo scare the crap out of people!
He gone be the new czar for the Mexican Government
Wackos all!
Atta boy Rick...The world thinks your a right-wing nut job already so there is no sense giving them any more ammo by going to a "Values Voters" conference made up flat-earther, white evangelical crazies.
Besides, there will be plenty of jeezuz freaks from below the Mason-Dixon line there already, one more like you will just get lost among all the bible thumpin' vigilante groups anyway...
we want Kay Kay Kay
not Rick Parry, she will take it from him this March 2010
Conservative?? But everyone mentioned in the article was a big-spending, foreign-interventionist, privacy-rights bashing, free-choice despising, extremist left-wing so-called Neocon. Very few Republicans are Conservatives.
We don't want him as Governor, either! I intend to work very hard that "foot-in-mouth" Perry does NOT get another term!
Texas Gov. Rick Perry was originally included on 2012 Presidential Straw Poll ballot at this weekend's Values Voter Summit in Washington, but his staff requested that his name be removed.
SMART MOVE. He know he don't have a chance with his seccsion statement.
A very impressive lineup. I hope it's kept clean fron the start. the administration taking over in 2012 will need to be a well oiled machine, a team ready before the election and already working stratigy, not for the race but for the damage control needed to save what's left of the USA. Without that our best chance will be that the doomsday profits are right about 12/21/12. God help us all.