Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Friday he will consider a run for the Republican presidential nomination.
"I'm going to think about it" after the Texas legislative session ends on Monday, Perry told reporters in Austin after a bill signing. Perry added, "But I think about a lot of things."
Perry's remarks come on the heels of a Fox News interview this week in which he admitted that he is "tempted" to run for president.
"Oh, I can't say I'm not tempted, but the fact is this is something I don't want to do," Perry said.
A spokesman for Perry's office immediately sought to walk back his comments, noting that the governor has said he has no plans to run and that his position on the matter "remains the same."
And it will remain the same for a very long time. He's not running for a reason, and that reason is simple: his Presidential ambitions died in April 2009 when he said this:
Texas is a unique place. When we came into the Union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that.
We got a great Union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it, but if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what may come out of that.
You cannot suggest that a viable solution to fix Washington is secession from the union, and then later take it back and decide to run for President. Rick Perry may end up Senator from Texas someday, but he will never, ever run for President, and that quote there is absolutely the reason why any effort to recruit him would be doomed within hours of announcing he'd be running. A sitting governor advocating secession? The opposition research would have a field day.
Rick Perry has less of a chance of being President than Herman Cain, people. Herman Cain.
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