Posted on 11/10/2011 7:29:54 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
Rick Perry said Thursday "it ain't a day for quitting nothing" after his big "oops" during the Republican presidential debate the night before.
"Oh, shoot, no," the Texas governor said Thursday morning during a series of media appearances, when asked if his debate gaffe would propel him to pull out of the race.
On Wednesday, Perry was on stage with rivals Herman Cain and Mitt Romney in Rochester, Mich., when the debate sponsored by CNBC turned into a comedy of errors.
Perry was discussing the three government departments he wanted to cut but forget one of them in a major flub that left some of his supporters declaring his campaign was over.
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LOL! That was a heartless thing to say...
former Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm and ex Detroit Mayor Kwamee Kilpartick, two examples.
Perry governs one of the most successful states, was an Air Force pilot. His public speaking is choppy, not a game killer.
He’s playing it up, along with the “shoot,” for all it’s worth.
There’s no such thing as bad publicity.
I’m still with him, too. The only real Christian in race, with no personal baggage,IMHO. Folks want perfect talkers, maybe they ought get Bill Clinton back!
LOL! You should have seen some of my early posts here about him.
I just figured there were so many government departments that need shut down, he couldn’t decide the top 3.
Shred the Pretender. Who among them is able? Cain? seriously - Herman "What's the Right of Return" Cain?. Mitt, maybe. Newt, yeah.
Well, that will certainly change the minds of people who think his a blubbering idiot.
On the one hand, it’s a cringe-causing performance that reinforces everyone’s idea that Perry is an idiot. Can you imagine him negotiating a treaty behind closed doors and saying “Uh, I was supposed to ask you something, but I forgot what it was”.
On the other hand, Perry is proposing to shut down three federal agencies. How many have Cain proposed to shut down?
This. I feel badly for the guy, but after several really baaaad debate performances and that weird show in NH, the guy is toast.
I didn’t know he had back surgery. Sure thing, meds would do it.
Typical media sophists. They think in soundbites and don’t like anyone who doesn’t - they believe that is smart.
The press is killing him because he forgot his debate notes....?It's not like he got lost in a long speech. It was a 3-item list. A very important 3-item list.
A 3-item lists he's been repeating (supposedly) in speeches in recent days.
It's like he doesn't really believe this stuff, just memorizes it.
I'm not saying that's the way it is; but that's the way it appears.
He's not ready for prime time.
He's a good guy, but he's not ready for prime time.
I agree with MNJohnnie that calling for him to quit now is premature. But after the first 3 states, when it becomes obvious that he has no support base, he probably will quit.
This is a hideous gaffe, not a reasonable one. Looking to abolish three cabinet departments is a huge campaign issue, and Perry should have been able to rattle them off readily, with a succinct argument for eliminating them. Instead he was befuddled.
Put a fork in Perry; he’s done.
Many observers may also have been put off by Perry’s aggressive delivery of his sound bites.....almost like a schoolyard bully intimidating you into giving him your lunch money. Perry musta been coached to gesture and mouth his responses bluntly and strongly——b/c he did a lot of that.
Perry lives in “Rickville”........it’s all about him 24/7.
He was the jovial, self-serving Perry on Fox and Friends this AM-—still not recognizing his debate failure was one for the history books.....but grabbing the opportunity to pump his antidiluvean tax plan.
God knows how he’d screw up in the WH. You can almost hear Perry saying with that goofy grin pasted on his craggy face:” I was an Air Force Pilot-—pilots make mistakes-—and that was a big one they made crashing into the WTC building. Pilot error, yup. That’s what it was.”
Perry mutsa focus-grouped and rehearsed that line a 1000 times ...........knowing that agency dumps appeal to limited govt conservatives.
That’s what he says-——this is what he does. Perry is the man who created numerous Txas govt agencies that turned out to he slush funds——one of Perry’s donors even got his own agency-—for a price.
Another magic moment——Perry pontificating about elected officials kowtowing to special interests.......Harwood jumped in and mentioned Perry’s serial crony capitalism.
Shred the Pretender. Who among them is able?Only Newt.
He's the only one.
Cain might be Able in many ways, but he's got a proclivity for "stepping in it", actually stepping in it.
What Perry did wasn't "stepping in it"... what he did was more like a Blue Screen Of Death in windows.
But Cain actually DOES "step in it"... he says sh*t that he WALKS BACK the next day. He's done it several times already, most recently blaming the Perry camp for the lying scumbag whores and then THE VERY NEXT DAY walking it back.
But there were other things, too.
Cain isn't as obvious as Perry, but in the long run every bit as vulnerable to getting steam-rolled by Obama and his army of media leftbots.
And I'm not talking about lying-scumbag-whore stuff. I'm talking about gaffes and forced errors... and unforced errors. You're going to see a lot of those with Cain, I'm afraid.
I hope I'm wrong, because I know right now he's the front-runner and he's looking good, but he worries me. He's always worried me.
His mouth out-races his thoughts, and that's a very difficult habit to break and a very dangerous habit to have when you are going up against a guy like Obama who has the entire media on his side.
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