“Perry turned off a lot of conservatives last night.”
Count me as one.
Not knowing Perry from Adam, I gave him 3 debates now to introduce himself to me and show me what he’s got. Conclusion – he has Nothing. He totally comes across as a buffoon, and the least prepared candidate on the stage. Even though he knew what questions were going to be targeted at him, his answers were horrible.
How he handled the in-state tuition question was shameless. It sounded like advice taken from the book, Rules for Radicals. “When under attack accuse the attacker of something more outlandish and indefensible (even if not true), taking the spotlight off you.” Accusing opponents of his policy as being heartless for not wanting children to have an education is just the sort of outlandish accusation that would make Saul Alinsky and Obama proud.
Then there was the 3 am question. How pathetic
Governor Perry, if you were president, and you go a call at 3 am telling you that Pakistan had lost control of is nuclear weapons, at the hands of the Taliban, what would be your first move?
PERRY: Well obviously, before you ever get to that point you have to build a relationship in that region. That’s one of the things that this administration has not done. Yesterday, we found out through Admiral Mullen that Haqqani has been involved with — and that’s the terrorist group directly associated with the Pakistani country. So to have a relationship with India, to make sure that India knows that they are an ally of the United States.”
And I don’t even want to think about the embarrassing ‘Romney is a flip-flopper’ answer that Perry gave because it was nearly unintelligible. Went something like this, “First he was against it before he was for something that he was against before, but now he is for it” I actually started feeling sorry for him on that one.
Count me as two. You’ve written out what I felt about Perry after last night’s debate. It’s his coming across part... buffoon, indeed.