This is going to sound really weird, but I had a dream that former Governor Rick Perry was at my home last night for a barbeque. It was a great barbeque but Perry, in the dream, was a vegetarian, and there wasn’t much he could eat. He even eschewed the potato and egg salad because he said he was toying with the idea of going vegan, and the eggs looked like little chickens all rolled into a ball and he just couldn’t bring himself to eat them anymore.
I offered to make him a salad and while I was doing that, he grew impatient and ate it before I could put the organic cherub tomatoes and good bleu cheese on it. Then he asked if he was expected to make his own ice cream cone or was there someone to do that for him. I started to make one but he left before he got it.
He seemed like he was having a great time at first, then just grew impatient.
He apparently grew impatient with where he stood–or didn’t stand–in the line of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination as well, because he quit the race yesterday. Maybe it was because he was polling low enough that he, along with Rick Santorum, George Pataki and Bobby Jindal, were left out of the upcoming CNN presidential hopeful’s debate. Maybe the idea that Mike Huckabee was doing better than he was simply crushed him. It might even be that he’s made a deal to throw his weight, for whatever that’s worth, behind one of the leading candidates in exchange for a Cabinet post or Ambassadorship if he helps that candidate win the presidency.
Whatever it was, he’s gone. In a speech to the conservative Eagle Forum in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 11, Perry said he had no regrets, then said, “It has been a privilege for me, it has been an honor to travel this country, to speak with the American people about their hopes and their dreams, to see a sense of optimism being prevalent despite this season of cynical politics.”
I’m not going to beat a man when he’s down, so I’ll just say, see you later, Rick.
And yes, the dream was still weird!
