low will he go? i meant it in both senses. he s down as you said. he s at fifth or sixth in iowa. his poll numbers are sinking. he s gone into the sewer of birtherism with donald trump. i suppose for rick perry at this point in his campaign, a donald trump endorsement would be a big deal. he s flailing. he s embarrassed himself. now this is really humiliate to say this, that donald trump doesn t know so he doesn t know either. this is the rick perry way. a strange scenario playing out for perry. here s a guy falling in the polls when he has plenty of money. we all know candidates with money don t leave the races. no. would donald trump help this guy out? i don t know. you know, donald trump was kind of laughed off the stage. people took him seriously for a little while and the more he says, he doesn t even believe the president now, the more ridiculous he becomes. i mean, perry today did hire president bush s first campaign
president bush s first campaign manager, joe alba, but, you know, joe supported in 2008 his big savior candidate was rudy giuliani. i m starting to wonder if rick perry is kind of the rudy giuliani figure of 2012. where he s the guy who everybody thought was going to come in and be the big savior, knock off the front-runner in the end he finished third in his best primary and i think he got one delegate. this is not at this point a winning campaign. you know, we had the rock story at the perry hunting spot that they rented years ago. and now we have this confederate license plate. why can t the governor of texas come out and say unequivocally that he thinks the confederate license plate is a bad idea? well, he could and he should, obviously. i mean, if he were looking for an opportunity to really distance himself from that awful camp name and to reassure americans that he really stands for fairness, that s what he would do. but instead, you know, he s
he s at fifth or sixth in iowa. his poll numbers are sinking. he s gone into the sewer of birtherism with donald trump. as those courting donald trump is a big catch. i suppose for rick perry at this point in his campaign, a donald trump endorsement would be a big deal. he s flailing. he s embarrassed himself. now this is really humiliate to say this, that donald trump doesn t know so he doesn t know either. this is the rick perry way. a strange scenario playing out for perry. here s a guy falling in the polls when he has plenty of money. we all know candidates with money don t leave the races. no. would donald trump help this guy out? i don t know. you know, donald trump was kind of laughed off the stage. people took him seriously for a little while and the more he says, he doesn t even believe the president now, the more ridiculous he becomes. i mean, perry today did hire president bush s first campaign manager, joe alba, but, you know, joe supported in 2008 his
manager, joe alba, but, you know, joe supported in 2008 his big savior candidate was rudy giuliani. i m starting to wonder if rick perry is kind of the rudy giuliani figure of 2012. where he s the guy who everybody thought was going to come in and be the big savior, knock off the front-runner. in the end he finished third in his best primary and i think he got one delegate. this is not at this point a winning campaign. you know, we had the rock story at the perry hunting spot that they rented years ago. and now we have this confederate license plate. why can t the governor of texas come out and say unequivocally that he thinks the confederate license plate is a bad idea? well, he could and he should, obviously. i mean, if he were looking for an opportunity to really distance himself from that awful camp name and to reassure americans that he really stands for fairness, that s what he would do. but instead, you know, he s taking it s a page from the
rick perry is taking a mulligan on the last two months of his campaign, new staff, a new man at the the top, joe alba, the man who directed the bush cheney campaign. can the same lightning strike the same place in texas twice? joining us the man who helped break the story, paul berka of the texas monthly. good day to you. nice to see you. hello there. so you have been covering the story. when did rick perry say, enough is enough. we need to get new blood in there? well, it was sunday. what i was told, that he picked up the phone and called alba and asked him to come over to his house. they had a conversation. i really think that anita perry was also a big player in this. she saw where things were going and didn t like it and said they had to do something. so it was a decision that was done pretty much in the perry