""By those basic measures of fitness for office, Rick Perry once again failed to deliver. He was languid. Passive. Half-hearted. Listless. Just like he was during the 9/23 debate.
I’m really, really trying to be nice.
Looks like Team Perry’s plan to have him sleep more isn’t working.
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Other reax:
Dana Loesch on Perry’s botched Romney attack: “Perry had a golden opportunity to put the screws to him and fumbled.”
Philip Klein: “Perry makes Pawlenty look like a world champion debater.”
Chris Miller: “I am a huge Perry fan. But he blew it on the chance to take Romney down with Healthcare question. Disappointed.”
David Freddoso: “Perry played it safe and lost.”
John Hinderaker: “Rick Perry, during the half of the debate that I saw, bordered on invisible. I don’t know whether the pundits who say this was make or break for Perry are right, but it certainly was not a strong night for him. One thing that strikes me as odd is how little mileage Perry gets out of his job creation record in Texas. He mentioned it a time or two, but, as in prior debates, he didn’t use it effectively as the foundation of his claim to be the strongest candidate.”
See also: Perry #fail.
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Here comes the CYA:
After a two-hour debate on the economy, earnest GOP operatives headed straight to the spin room to tout the merits of their respective candidates.
As for Texas Gov. Rick Perry,he headed straight to the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house.
“Debates are not my strong suit,” Perry told about 100 fraternity brothers gathered to see him at the house, a few blocks from the debate site on the campus of Dartmouth College.
Swell. Just what Obama ordered…""
“Yeehaw O’Bummer I can be a good ole fratboy too!”
Not that there’s anything wrong with visiting the old haunt, but did he have to do it while a million eyes were on him?
"I'm in trouble. I just talked to the Jewish house and every one of my answers in the debate was wrong," Perry told about 100 fraternity brothers gathered to see him at the house, a few blocks from the debate site on the campus of Dartmouth College.
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