Posted on 09/23/2011 6:25:35 AM PDT by Lakeshark
I mentioned Rick Perry’s DREAM Act debate blunder in my round-up post.
It gets second place.
The cringe-worthiest moment, by a hair, was when Perry botched what should have been his most potent attack on Mitt Romney’s chronic flip-flopping. As I noted on Twitter when it happened, any random high schooler at the CPAC conference in Washington could have done better than this.
If this is how Perry’s going to take Obama on in debates, we’re in trouble. Someone inject him with some Red Bull and a dash of Herman Cain’s personality.
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Perry said he’s in favor of making English the official language of the U.S. Perhaps he should concentrate on mastering it before the next debate
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“Ok, we agree, he is not physically able to carry out the duties of the office and should take his walker and go home.”
The duties of the office are a snap, it the campaign that’s a killer.
I reluctantly have to agree with my Freerepublic counterparts. Perry did not do so well last night and was not very articulate. If it came down to Perry vs Rombot, I would still vote for Perry. Honesty think Newt and Herman acted the most presidential. Maybe it’s time for SP to get in the race. The stakes are too high for another 4 years of Hope and Change.
That’s frightening. I had no idea.
When the issue is properly explained 99% of the people agree with Perry’s possition.
You have to remember that this passed the Texas legislature (one of the most conservative in the country) with all but 4 votes out of 150 voting for it. You couldn’t pass hardly anything with that kind of support anywhere much less Texas.
I’m with you on that.... I’m not a huge Perry fan but I was leaning in his direction... I had hoped he was going to take it to the next level and maybe ease some of my reservations.... but last night.... that was painful.
Video: Perry’s cringe-worthiest debate moment.
“He had back surgery on July 1st. That was almost three months ago. What’s his excuse now?”
He went back to the office too soon.
Perhaps he should take some time off.
If he thinks he will get the votes of illegal aliens/Hispanics, he should check McCain's pandering to LaRaza. Nobody pandered to Hispanics as much as McCain, and yet they still did not get their vote.
I think you are misreading that greatly. It's not joy, but relief that a man who has a suspect record as a conservative is being exposed by his own performance.
After a couple of months of PR on FR, his record is coming to light, and his inability to articulate and defend himself on his feet is being shown as well.
It's far better to see that now than to buy what he's being packaged as and have buyers remorse later.
“Perhaps he should take some time off.”
Maybe after the debates. Someone posted there is another debate in two weeks and then another in Vegas. Apparently the powers-that-be have decided this is the process that will be used to narrow the field, not the primaries themselves.
I wish each of these candidates were focusing on winning the primary campaigns in their own states, so we could have a convention where the elected delegates decide who would have the best chance to win against the Democrats and the Party could unite. But the 1964 convention did away with that process.
I only heard clips of Perry's debate responses on radio this morning, and they are indeed cringe-worthy. I felt so embarrassed for him, I just wanted it to end. I can't imagine how bad he must have come across on live television.
He's going to have to step up his debating game if he wants to stay in the race. After last night, I'm not sure if he can.
I strongly disagree with Rick Perry on some key issues, but he's my Governor, and I do not hate the man. I simply want a fearless, conservative reformer for president in 2012, and Perry is nowhere close to being that.
Perry was rehearsing for the debate by watching old Oz movies dubbed in Spanish.
ROTFLOL.
The time to unite is after we have a nominee. Perry is not yet the nominee, and hopefully, he won’t be.
Nothing says we have to unite around Perry.
But his medical problems would not explain his outrageous “heartless” comment.
I strongly disagree with Rick Perry on some key issues, but he's my Governor, and I do not hate the man. I simply want a fearless, conservative reformer for president in 2012, and Perry is nowhere close to being that.
Well said.
:) I’m not a Perry supporter, although for a few weeks I was looking at him closely, since Sarah has yet to declare and we still have the primaries to confront. Now? I’m shocked at how poorly he has done in the debates. Imho, he is NOT presidential. He’s not even adequately prepared to debate his own record.
It is. While he may have been right he struggled big time to articulate what it was he was trying to say. Not good.
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