Posted on 08/19/2011 2:42:11 PM PDT by HerbieHoover
Perry's announcement speech got positive coverage, but the media's approach has been growing increasingly negative. Perry has been very visible, voluble, and controversial, and the media have been portraying him as something verging on a loose cannon.
One example was his response to a question about whether President Obama loves his country. Perry said the questioner would have to ask Obama--which left the impression that Perry has doubts about the president's patriotism.
Another example came yesterday, when Perry called global warming "a scientific theory that has not been proven and from my perspective is more and more being put into question." This brought derision from John Weaver, a senior adviser to GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman. "We're not going to win a national election if we become the anti-science party," Weaver told the Washington Post.
His biggest gaffe was his comment that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke might be guilty of "treasonous" behavior for how he is handling economic policy....
Even Fox News commentator Karl Rove, the former political strategist for President George W. Bush (a former Texas governor who named Perry as his lieutenant governor), said Perry seems unpresidential and needs to choose his words more carefully....
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at least perry knows there are not 57 states in the u.s.a.
The speak your mind side of Perry is one of the benefits.
We don’t need another nuanced teleprompter reader pretending to lead.
Welcome to Free Republic.
I see that you appear concerned.
Your concern is appreciated.
I don’t like Perry, but I have no problem with any of those answers. I guess we aren’t allowed to have our own opinions anymore if they don’t jibe with the “accepted” ones.
This is not a gaffe.
I think his message is perfectly under control.
LOL, those are hardly gaffes, more like right hooks. Good for Perry!
There are a lot of us who like the fact that he’s telling it like it is. No more cowtowing to the establishment.
If Tokyo Rove and the MSM don’t like what he’s saying, then I suggest he keep it up!
What gaffe? Sure sounds like treason to me...
I agree with all of these things they call “gaffes”.
I do not see any of the statements this writer lists as gaffes.
Getting Rove’s panties in a knot is abonus.
That only means he can win.
Go away newbie concern troll!
That's why they're called "gaffes" by the media.
You American Government hating Tea Bagging, anti-Obama, partisan hack /sarc
This article is Horseshit, and anyone suggests that a candidate not speak his mind in telling the truth is working for Obama. As for the comparison to Newt, it’s ridiculous
If they don’t want to hear his answer then they shouldn’t ask him the question.
In other words, Romneybots are getting nervous.
Newt made an incendiary comment about Ryan’s Medicare Reform Plan. It gave the Dems a hammer with which to beat up Paul Ryan. He hurt his own side with his ill-chosen words.
That has nothing to do with Perry’s statements on these various things that have come up.
So far, I have no problem with them.
Rove/Weaver et al might want to consider that people might be sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual, instead of advising Perry to become more like what people are sick to death of.
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