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Rick Perry is calling it quits on his 2016 White House bid.

The former Texas governor told the Eagle Forum in St. Louis, Missouri on Friday afternoon that he is suspending his presidential campaign.

“We have a tremendous field – the best in a generation – so I step aside knowing our party is in good hands, and as long as we listen to the grassroots, the cause of conservatism will be too.”

"That is why today I am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States," he said, adding that he has "no regrets" about his run.


He also took what appeared to be a veiled swipe at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. "Demeaning people of Hispanic heritage is not just ignorant, it betrays the example of Christ," he said.

In recent weeks, Perry has been particularly vocal in his criticism of the real estate mogul, calling him a "cancer on conservatism."

It seems though that Trump has at least buried the hatchet, tweeting today wishing Perry well and that he "will have a great future."


"My second warning is this: we cannot indulge nativist appeals that divide the nation further. The answer to our current divider-in-chief is not to elect a Republican divider-in-chief," Perry said, adding that the nominee "must make the case for the cause of conservatism more than the cause of their own celebrity."

In August, reports came out about Perry not having enough money to pay his campaign staff. Perry’s campaign chairman Sam Clovis quit from the former Texas governor’s campaign in late August and went to work for Trump.

Perry, whose White House bid started on June 4 and lasted 97 days, has been polling in the low single digits throughout his campaign - most recently at 1 percent in the crucial first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa. He was slated to debate for the second time in the lower-tier debate on CNN next week.

"The answer to a president nominated for soaring rhetoric and no record is not to nominate a candidate whose rhetoric speaks louder than his record," he said in his speech. "It is not to replicate the Democrat model of selecting a president, falling for the cult of personality over durable life qualities."

He also ran in 2012, briefly polling at the top of the pack before falling to eventual nominee Mitt Romney.

Fellow 2016 contenders Bobby Jindal and Rick Santorum, both polling in the bottom tier, expressed their support for Perry.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

I liked rick perry so in that regard, its sort of a shame, but at the same time, I think there's too many people running and am a little glad for the winnowing.

dana perino (major crush) was just suggesting similarly, and that if after the next "debate", the candidates aren't in the top ten, they'd do well to drop out also.

greg gutfeld was expressing some dismay at having so many people and not being able to hear what they think more in depth because the coverage is necessarily limited.

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr


I wasn't a huge fan of Gov. perry in the top spot but I thought (and still think) he'd be a great SoD



Michael

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ORIGINAL: bounty44
I liked rick perry so in that regard, its sort of a shame, but at the same time, I think there's too many people running and am a little glad for the winnowing.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44
dana perino (major crush) was just suggesting similarly, and that if after the next "debate", the candidates aren't in the top ten, they'd do well to drop out also.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44
greg gutfeld was expressing some dismay at having so many people and not being able to hear what they think more in depth because the coverage is necessarily limited.

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greg gutfeld was expressing some dismay at having so many people and not being able to hear what they think more in depth because the coverage is necessarily limited.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr


I wasn't a huge fan of Gov. perry in the top spot but I thought (and still think) he'd be a great SoD



Michael

He wasn't my first choice either, I would like to see him in DHS, although I think it should be part of DoD.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

its interesting how so few, if any at all, candidates end up in the next administration in some way.

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr


Usually, during the primaries, candidates spend a fair amount of time, running the other candidates down (especially if they have no gravitas of their own).

While some "attacks" (debate) are fine and considered par for the course for politics, some of them get down-right nasty.

I remember a debate between Reagan and Mondale (not a primary but it offers an example of "fair" debate). Mondale was asked a question and he replied: "Well, one has to be careful, when quoting President Reagan. If you quote him accurately, you are accused of mud-slinging."

It was PRICELESS!

Unfortunately, I'm also reminded of Mario Cuomo (D), sending vans through New York City neighborhoods with a loud-speaker blaring: "Vote for Cuomo; not the homo!" (referencing Ed Koch {D} who was probably gay).

That's an example of why Cuomo never wound up in Koch's administration.



Michael

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr


Usually, during the primaries, candidates spend a fair amount of time, running the other candidates down (especially if they have no gravitas of their own).

While some "attacks" (debate) are fine and considered par for the course for politics, some of them get down-right nasty.

I remember a debate between Reagan and Mondale (not a primary but it offers an example of "fair" debate). Mondale was asked a question and he replied: "Well, one has to be careful, when quoting President Reagan. If you quote him accurately, you are accused of mud-slinging."

It was PRICELESS!

Unfortunately, I'm also reminded of Mario Cuomo (D), sending vans through New York City neighborhoods with a loud-speaker blaring: "Vote for Cuomo; not the homo!" (referencing Ed Koch {D} who was probably gay).

That's an example of why Cuomo never wound up in Koch's administration.



Michael

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

A Democrat campaigning with anti gay slurs? Can't be.