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Perry gaffe … one more short take

By: politicalwoman (Diary)  |  November 10th, 2011 at 09:47 AM  | 

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Rick Perry made a big-time gaffe last night on the CNBC debate.  So?

Perry’s debate skills are keeping him from returning to Tier 1 candidate status.  Oh?

Do you think last night’s debate will hurt him long term?  No.

Do you think he should just pack it in and return to Texas?  H–l, NO!

But what I do think is that we witnessed one of the worst debate moderator panels to date.  Combative and downright rude.  Perry actually handled the gaffe pretty well with humor and spontaneity, and it could have ended right after the EPA comment, but the whatshisname? moderator was intent on adding to the embarrassment quotient.

While I’m on file lately as leaning Newt, if it were Perry v. Obama on the 2012 debate stage, the contrast would be remarkable, and ya know, I think we’d all be in for a pleasant surprise.

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  • iidvbii

    but can you imagine the three day state of the union addresses?

    • http://www.itsaboutliberty.com IronDioPriest

      is someone with the character, leadership, AND rhetorical skill – to decisively take out Barack Hussein Obama.

      It is becoming painfully, painfully clear that Rick Perry would become mulch for Barack Hussein Obama’s lawn. He cannot possibly stand toe-to-toe with Obama and come out the winner in a comparison.

      And like it or not, a vast swath of the general electorate will make their decision based on the aesthetics of debate performances.

      Perry needs to move on.

  • izoneguy

    • David123

      If I were John McCain I would have been furious at Obama. In 1968 John McCain was putting up with months and years of torture because he won’t badmouth the greatest country on God’s green earth – America.

      And here’s Obama throwing money in the collection plate for 20 years so he can hear America get cursed. If I were John McCain I would have relentlessly criticized Obama for doing that, and I’d have told Sarah to criticize him as well (she probably wouldn’t have needed much prodding).

      I would not have said that America would be fine if Obama was elected. I would have told the truth and said that America would be in great danger if we elected a far-left extremist like Obama. I might have turned the knife a little too, and quoted Obama’s running mate about how America would experience a crisis if Obama was elected.

      I would have talked a lot about patriotism, and I would have contrasted that with the Obama-Wright-Ayers troika.

      So my question about Perry is, is he willing to tell the truth about Obama? – and with Obama, the truth hurts. Is Rick Perry willing to be falsely accused of being a raaaacist for telling the truth about Barrack Obama? I know Rick Perry is a patriotic American, and an Air Force veteran. I don’t think forgetting the DOE for 20 seconds or so is a big deal – I think going to a hate-America church for 20 years is a big big deal.

      • nativetexan41

        I will continue to support him and he will overcome this and win.
        Perry 2012!!

        • cheetah2

          as long as he doesn’t give up, I won’t either!

    • windwaker24

      Obama is pathetic. Great orator, indeed!

  • conservativeparrothead

    Conservatism must be articulated and sold well in placed where it is not the dominant political ideology. Rick Perry is not that salesman. He is a good solid conservative and a great governor but he doesnt win purple states.

  • Scope

    Yes, whoever the guy with the hair was was determined to make the moment last as long as he could so that they could come out with their 54 seconds soundbite, and youtube video.

    There was a Republican woman this morning on CNN as a guest and she said that the questions asked of the candidates last night were so inconsequential as to be meaningless. She mentioned a few of them, and shook her head in disgust.

    We’ve all been talking about the debate moderators here since the beginning with the thin or thick crust insanity. I know that Perry is not good in debates, but despite the charges of coward to him if he backed out of the debates, he should have been encouraged to spend his time on the road, not mocked. Everyone agreed that he needed to do the one on foreign policy, but, after that he should put his time and money into campaigning.

    Whoever doesn’t see that the left is trying it’s best to make a mockery of all of our candidates, so that they somehow make the walking gaffe machine Obama look good, is missing the entire leftist agenda.

    • cheetah2

      Perry’s forgetful moment might never have been noticed if John Harwood hadn’t kept after him about it. Perry jokingly grabbed at the suggested answer of EPA, and it would have ended there if Harwood hadn’t pressed him further. And of course Perry then was honest enough to admit he was not planning to cut the EPA entirely. And then Harwood insisted that he say right out he couldn’t remember his third agency. Harwood made it just as awful as he could for Perry. I wouldn’t want that on my conscience if I were him.

  • noodle

    Are Perry’s supporters as steadfast as Cain’s? When I look at the field, Perry is the one I would trust most with the stewardship of my country. Early on had rooted for Cain, Pawlenty and even Newt, but Cain lost me well before the lastest issues (decided he was too shallow). Newt is beginning to get on my nerves as too smarmy, though he’d be my second choice, he doesn’t have my trust and seems too wrapped up in minutia.

  • paulplantowin

    Cain supporters are sending a message to the media – they are so slow to notice they have lost a lot of their former hold on American politics.
    Obama makes far more gaffs than Perry (or Cain) and they NEVER had a non-stop blooper day for him the way they did today.
    If the attack IMPROVES Perry’s numbers because his supporters push back – we ALL win.
    Who thinks Obama could do what he does without the media?
    The media is the enemy.
    PUSH BACK – stand by anyone who is attacked unfairly.
    THX