Rick Perry suspended his presidential campaign today, telling a South Carolina audience that his candidacy had “no viable path forward” and endorsing rival Newt Gingrich. After rocketing to the top of the Republican polls and being heralded as the second coming of Ronald Reagan, the Texas governor imploded in the spotlight with repeated self-inflicted gaffes. Drawing only 6 percent in recent South Carolina polls — that’s Stephen Colbert territory, hoss — Perry had become a living, breathing parody of the slick Southern yee-haw Republican pol.
He now joins Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Jon Huntsman in Republican Exile Island — better there than...
He now joins Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Jon Huntsman in Republican Exile Island — better there than...
- 1/19/2012
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
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