Is Perry the most epic fail candidate since Fred Thompson?
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« on: October 03, 2011, 08:58:40 PM »
Hell yes.
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« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2011, 09:00:23 PM »
Since 2008? Wow...so many candidates to pick from in that time.
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« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2011, 09:11:22 PM »
Quote from: realisticidealist on October 03, 2011, 09:00:23 PM
Since 2008? Wow...so many candidates to pick from in that time.

Well yes actually. A lot ran this year.

I guess there was Pawlenty, but he was more like Tommy Thompson.
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« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2011, 09:14:37 PM »
Quote from: A Testament To Broken Walls on October 03, 2011, 09:11:22 PM
Quote from: realisticidealist on October 03, 2011, 09:00:23 PM
Since 2008? Wow...so many candidates to pick from in that time.

Well yes actually. A lot ran this year.

I guess there was Pawlenty, but he was more like Tommy Thompson.

Perry is the only candidate to run and lead national polls this year. None of the others are comparable.
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« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2011, 09:15:49 PM »
Actually in that sense Perry might be worse than Thompson because Thompson never led or was taken seriously once his campaign actually began.
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« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2011, 09:25:16 PM »
Whether he's failed remains to be seen.
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« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2011, 11:39:37 PM »
Perry hasn't exactly "failed" yet in the GOP primary.  He had his honeymoon period and it wore off
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« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2011, 01:50:17 AM »
John Edwards.
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« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2011, 02:51:00 AM »
Way, way way too early to know. Obama was getting crushed by Clinton at this point in 2007, and his first few debates were pretty bad too. Remember when everyone derided him when he said he would go into Pakistan to take out terrorists if he had the intel?
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« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2011, 03:32:10 AM »
Thompson never led the polls. If that is the metric your going to use.

Now Giuliani led the polls.

If you are going to by the size and breadth of fall, Bachmann's fall was much more profound.
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« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2011, 06:01:49 AM »
Pawlenty?
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« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2011, 06:10:07 AM »

For an epic fail, the candidate actually has to have been up at some point. Pawlenty never got off the floor.
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« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2011, 06:11:32 AM »
Even worse.
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« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2011, 02:49:53 PM »
He now seems to be consistently tied or behind Cain. I wonder how much longer the media can pretend this is a Romney-Perry contest.
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« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2011, 02:54:17 PM »
Yes/He still may get nominated.
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« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2011, 02:59:18 PM »
Given how insanely fickle the Anyone But Romney crowd have been I wouldn't be surprised to see Perry rebound and end up leading the national polls again at some point before collapsing. Again.

Newt Gingrich is also due his turn as shiny Tea Party darling for a month, so maybe he'll start making up ground in polls.
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« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2011, 03:07:30 PM »
Quote from: Gold Soundz on October 04, 2011, 02:59:18 PM
Given how insanely fickle the Anyone But Romney crowd have been I wouldn't be surprised to see Perry rebound and end up leading the national polls again at some point before collapsing. Again.

Newt Gingrich is also due his turn as shiny Tea Party darling for a month, so maybe he'll start making up ground in polls.

Yeah, I think it is still early to call it.  Romney has never polled above the mid/high twenties which is embarrassing for someone that has been in campaign mode for 7 years.  I wonder what that does to your self esteem.
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« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2011, 03:38:11 PM »
Maybe he won't be President, but inside his "nhead" retreat, Rick Perry is da boss!
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« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2011, 04:23:03 PM »
We have a long way to go before we can honestly judge the success of the Perry campaign.
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« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2011, 04:53:40 PM »
Quote from: Eraserhead on October 04, 2011, 02:49:53 PM
He now seems to be consistently tied or behind Cain. I wonder how much longer the media can pretend this is a Romney-Perry contest.

This.

The media really seems to be living in another world right now.
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« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2011, 05:13:22 PM »
Worse than Fred, about on par with Joementum.
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« Reply #21 on: October 04, 2011, 05:18:05 PM »
Quote from: Eraserhead on October 04, 2011, 02:49:53 PM
He now seems to be consistently tied or behind Cain. I wonder how much longer the media can pretend this is a Romney-Perry contest.

Cain hasn't been up in the polls that long, the media may be waiting to see if the Cain boost is more long term rather than a short term jump
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