I've heard about putting lipstick on a pig but this is ridiculous.
Good for him...
Perry seems to have gumption...
Yep, 1st she makes a completely ignorant emotional attack on Cain then she posts this?
I see facts are utterly irrelevant this this propagandist at BI.
At least he isn’t accusing the Cain campaign of slipping him a roofie.
I am of the opinion that the reason the lame stream media is pushing this meme so hard is that they are trying to keep the bottom tier of GOP candidate in play. If those canidates see Perry “fall” then they will hope to pickup some of Perry’s voters and then possibly surge to victory or perhaps a brokered VP slot.
What needs to happen is the bottom 3 need to drop out now, and if Perry voters are going to leave him, do so quickly and go to their next favorite candidate quickly.
“Hey, I’m only human. Everyone seeking to run the largest and most complex organization in the world has memory lapses from time to time on national television during debate. Come on. I just forgot ONE OF THREE multi-million dollar agency that I want to eliminate. So what. I bet you housewives forget to get milk at the supermarket too.”
Good for Perry! I’m all for anyone breaking out of the Liberal elite straight jacket!
I cannot stand that every candidate and campaign is ridiculed and castigated if it does not follow the elite’s strict guidelines. Fooey! This is America. Why must we follow the Liberal’s script... because then we get a candidate like Obama.
I’m not sure I would have survived that moment. Not if God answered my prayer with a “yes.”
Perry must be cutting into some of Romney’s support, and the establishment knows he is going nowhere. This is how they eat their own.
I’ll take two Perry brain freezes over one of Obama’s stutter blunders.
Go Cain!
Perry is my governor and a good guy (most of the time). But he is not ready to be President, he knows Texas issues and Texas politics, but he does not know national issues (well) or national politics. I consider (and he should too) his bid this year as a learning experience. He’ll be much better prepared next time.
Amazing how people keep posting Business Insider articles here despite the fact that its founder is a hard-core Democrat and has given lots of cash to Obama.
I have to admit, I felt sorry for him too.
Perry’s gaffe was the best thing that could have happened to him?
And the best thing that ever happened to Captain Smith was hitting the iceberg.
What choice does he have? He can’t deny it, he can’t dismiss it.
I have no idea if he could come back from this, or if he could have come back from his prior debate performances. That is for the electorate to decide.
But I do agree with this article on one point. Perry has NOTHING left to lose. If he’s been trying to “play it safe”, there’s no point anymore. He might as well just go out and have some fun. If it turns out that everybody loves the free-spirited, fun-loving, say what you wish version of Perry, he might come back. If not, at least he gets to be free.
From what I’ve seen, I’d prefer the wacky, free-to-be-me Perry a lot more than the stiff, I’m scared of my shadow Perry.
As to this being an absurd idea — well, for two weeks we have heard that getting (falsely) accused of sexual harrassment was the best thing that could happen to a candidate. So I guess anything is possible.
The author has no perspective. No one has accused Perry of years of morally reprehensible behavior because of a gaffe. And on the flip side when a bunch of women accuse you of sexual harrassment you can't just say "oops" and laugh it off.
Perry basically lived out the onstage-in-your-underwear nightmare last night”
Almost...need to add detail that the elastic band on the underwear went bad all of a sudden.
Funny, that's what the black knight said when he was down to no appendages.
"Mr. Churchill, you admit that Mr. Attlee is a humble man?"
"He is a humble man, but then he has much to be humble about!"