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Posted on 11/10/2011 12:14:37 PM PST by Driftwood1
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, looking to bounce back from a recent debate gaffe, doubled-down in his own defense Thursday by admitting debating is not his strength.
“If we’re electing the Debater-in-Chief, don’t elect me,” the Texas governor said on Fox News, repeating his previous criticism of President Obama, who he calls a “great debater.”
Earlier in the day, Perry called President Obama “sleek as a mink” over his debate-style on conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham’s show.
Perry stayed on message in his latest appearance, part of a media blitz Thursday following a debate misstep the previous night in which he forgot the third federal agency he plans to eliminate as president.
He acknowledged the extended stumble was “brutal.” Perry laughed it off on Thursday, however, turning it into a joke on his website and Twitter feed.
“I hope they don't lose the feed before the third question!” Perry tweeted when announcing the Fox interview. In a follow-up tweet, he used the hashtag “#forgetmenot.”
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Perry admits he sucks at debate. He then says Obama is a great debater. Why would anyone want this halfwit to be the Republican nominee when he all but admits he would get killed in a debate with Barry?Minus the term "halfwit", which I consider rude and unfair, I agree with your main point.
And anyway, it doesn't even matter if he admits it or not. We all know it's true.
Obama would cream him. Turn him into Powdered Perry.
Perry is GWB w/o the brains. You're free to characterize that any way you'd like. I'll stick to the facts.
I’m not real good at sparring.
If you want someone good at sparring, I’m not your man....
The way Perry has been looking Biden would kick his ass. Perry needs to find an excuse and get out.
President Obama, who he calls a “great debater.”
Well just the fact that he thinks Obama is a great debater shows he is pretty darn slow.
Obama sucks without a teleprompter and it seems like all his lies would make it pretty easy to play gotcha if someone knew stats, etc.
You are a hard-core in your hatred of Perry. That’s not sticking with the facts, that’s sticking with your gut feeling, which you are entitled to have, of course.
Perry’s going nowhere in this race. That’s obvious to most people by now. He’s 5% in some polls, and that’s before yesterday.
He just doesn’t have what it takes to compete in the national political arena.
But that doesn’t mean he’s the worthless piece of crap that you and a few others (who I don’t want to name because I don’t want to get into an extended argument about this) continually portray him as.
Perry is not going to be the nominee. I agree.
Perry should not be the nominee. I agree.
But I disagree with your characterizations of who he is and what he stands for.
You have a right to make those characterizations. Do I have a right to disagree with them?
And forget about “facts”, ok. We all think we’ve got “facts”, when what we really have, all of us, are “opinions”.
And Clint Eastwood said it right about opinions.
So you have yours, I have mine, we agree on the main points that Perry is not our man... and that should be good enough for both of us.
No?
Oye. I think he should shut up for a few days.
He really is done. It will just take a few days for his supporters to realize it. I’m sorry to say, but Cain is too. Not for the allegations, but for not getting rid of that idiot, Block. Also for jumping the accuse gun and blaming Perry for the sex harassment charges.
Rush sure was pimping him today.
And yes, we can agree that he is going nowhere. But why? According to his followers, he's a brilliant politician who has done wondrous things for his home state of Texas. He's not going anywhere because when compared to other candidates Perry comes across as a stammering imbecile.
Thankfully, the only way Rick Perry ever sees the inside of the White House is if President Cain invites him in for a visit.
As for "facts"... it is a 'fact' that Rick Perry cannot speak in a debate and to a national audience w/o coming across as a complete bozo. You're free to call that opinion all you'd like. But if it is opinion, it is the opinion of an overwhelming majority of the American public.
I'm outta here; I've got to go pick up my boat.
Cheers.
Is he even the Master of His Domain?
Ha! More proof he's NOT the Master of His Domain.
Well I’m sure all would agree with Perry on one thing he said “Earlier in the day, Perry called President Obama “sleek as a mink”.
That’s actually a pretty good line and is on-point.
I don’t think I could stand to watch those debates anyway, with Perry flubbing everything and Obama just going “uhhh...uhhhhhh...uhhhh” through the whole thing.
It’s a “Hail Mary” Pass for Perry, but it’s his only shot.
Apparently, he isn't too good at not "stepping in it" either.
I think he may have forever immunized himself against debate gaffes. If it works, it’s brilliant. It’s been his biggest weakness, IMO.
I’ve been saying for a long time that we do our Presidential selection process all wrong. These “debates” aren’t even really debates. They’re just a time for each candidate to serve up slices of their stump speech.
Even if they were real debates... debating is not a skill that a President needs. Presidents don’t need to be encyclopedic experts on every possible issue, either. That’s not how the job works. Presidents don’t debate their advisors. They listen, learn, and decide. What a President needs to have, more than anything else, is the ability to listen and assimilate information quickly— and more than anything else: *recognize* good advice when he hears it. He needs a gift for knowing when he knows enough to make the right decision. Then he needs to act decisively and forcefully, and then move quickly to the next item of the day.
That’s what the job of President is. Nothing about our process really tests for any of those skills— and they are the most important part! Yes, a President needs to be able to deliver a speech and they do that on the campaign tour but that’s just a small part of the skill set. Frankly— we have a better process for selecting an American Idol than we have for our President.
I’m not sure what the answer is, but what we’re doing now is wrong. Wouldn’t it be interesting to set up some kind of complex war-game that they’d compete in? Some type of virtual environment... and have the candidates role-play as the CINC with real-world types of events, pressures and decisions? Give them all a standard set of advisors and experts. Set up a scenario and have them each game it out. Put them in Captain Kirk’s chair and see how they handle the Kobyoshi Maru test. (just kidding about that part, sort of...)
No Perry is not GWB. Perry is much more conservative. He is smart and governs well, just not a good debater. One to one with obama he would show obama up for the dimwit obama is. We all no that obama is just a puppet.
Given that Obama can't speak w/o his teleprompter, maybe. But La Raza Rick can't speak w/o one either. In fact, La Raza Rick can't even remember 3 important facts about his own policy plan. You may call him 'smart', but to America, he's a punchline. He's definitely not president material. Americans can see that and it is why they have kicked him to the curb.
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