He has screwed himself regarding his bowing to illegals and foreign policy.
If it doesn’t work out for Rick maybe he can try running for president of Mexico.
a revealing night.
What Perry can’t do in the debates, he will succeed in doing with MASSIVE ads.
No worries, we are electing a president, not a debate captain.
Announcing that conservatives that don’t want in-state for illegals are “heartless” is sure to help in the primaries. lol. His opponents should use that in their commercials.
Romney is now the prohibitive favorite. We lose even if we win.
The GOP has screwed itself again.
He simply acts like he is in pain. He was the same last week. He had back surgery the end of July and this is still too early for someone who had recent back surgery to stand up front for two hours. Severe pain also affects your thought processes. I am not excusing him, just believe that I have made the correct observation. I also saw him at a major speech in Virginia, and there was no problem. Some people are not debaters. That does not mean that he would not do a good job. I simply can’t vote for Romney and don’t think the others could beat Obama. So Perry it is for me, come hell or high water.
Perry must be saying to himself-Can I take my toys and go home!? How he ever thought he could win the base???????? Anyone but Obama, must be the logic, I guess. He is just another branch of Rove’s compassionate conservatism.
One of my first thoughts after the debate was, that the beltway people were toasting after seeing Perry come to the crash and burn. Sure, he’s not out but he is no conservative. Newt is great, brillant but he worries me that he will fall right back into his old patterns of giving his liberla friends some of the power-to be fair crap and allow them to set the issues.
I’m a native Texan. Those of us who know him best, know he’s a light-weight. HE WILL NOT BE THE GOP NOMINEE.
I live in Texas. I have friends that know GWB and Perry both - and they say the same thing about both of them. Talk to them in private, one on one, and they are lucid, direct, and make sense. Get them under TV lights with microphones shoved in their faces and they start stammering and fumbling around.
I remember sitting with a friend of mine that knows GWB very well. We were watching TV and they showed a clip of one of GWB’s famous aaaa, eer, stumbling bumbling answers. My friend nearly jumped out of chair and yelled, “who is that guy, if he talked like that in private I would have never given him a dime.”
The secret to Reagan was not his brain power, it was his ability to look straight into the camera, keep his thoughts together, and answer in a way that the average Joe on the street could understand. This is only my opinion, but while we have some smart people, and we even have a few reasonably conservative people, from a communication standpoint we don't even have a half a Reagan running. And as far as Perry's politics go (or any of the other candidates for that matter) if you can't communicate your ideas, it hardly makes any difference what your ideas are.
By all rights 2012 should be a cake walk for the Republicans. But the poor communicators we have are going to let it become a horse race - and one that could be lost.
Perry never followed up on his accusation that Romney wobbles on the 2nd Amendmend issue. Why did he not?
Very important issue for many Americans. Perry lost ground in many ways tonight, also on the immigration issue. He sounds less conservative than he makes himself out to be.
Ummmmm. Can someone remind me how many REAL debates obama engaged in? How did he handle the press during the primaries and more importantly after Hilly bowed out?
Perry has plenty of time to regroup and get prepared.
Lets all remember the terrible performance Reagan had in debate #1 against Mondale in 1984? He was an old man who recovered nicely. Perry can too.
Perry is not a Leader. He wants to educate all illegal children at bargain basement rates. Race to the bottom with Perry.
you have to keep in mind that we need the latino vote to win big,perry may be losing some of the white vote,but will still carry a chunk of the latino vote. I think it’s going to be very close in the end.
>>>Romney for being a flip flopper
I wish Perry would be a flip flopper on illegal immigration.
Especially during this time of HUGE UNEMPLOYMENT among legal citizens of all income groups.
Why is he not against illegal immigration? Why? Why?
Perry would go after Romney more effectively in real face to face campaigning with the voters, speeches, and of courses political ads. These have much more impact on winning elections and are much more effective than the debates.
I thought Perry might be the guy. Not so after his weak, stammering performance tonight. I’m getting a sick, sinking feeling in my stomach that Romney is going to be the nominee.