‘Oops,’ He Did It Again: Can Rick Perry Recover? (The Note)

This is crazy. If this is all politics / Republicans have to talk about, this country is in a lot of trouble. Especially, when you have other candidates such as Cain to talk about. This is the MAIN reason I’m a Democrat.

Sure he can.
At least he knows which government agencies need to be axed.
Education, Commerce and Energy.

Obama couldn’t name one agency that needs to go.
Pfffttt!

I was impressed by Rick Perry. I was expecting the familiar scowls and verbal combat with Romney. He was headed to his best debate performance. He seemed composed and then…..The gaffe scuttled the whole night for him.

Rick: Yes everyone has memory loss, but when you are running for such a high office and can’t even read your notes correctly! Perhaps we need someone younger then! Pres. Obama is alert, calm and has knowledge. Yes he too makes mistakes but when I compare him to these candidates he sure has my vote!

Rick Perry is like George Bush-lite, still with a drinking problem. Can you imagine the lite version of George Bush.

Sorry, but this guys major accomplishment so far is to make Bachmann, Palin, and GWBush look like intellectuals. Looks like we have so far: 1) A serial amnesiac/liar who can’t keep his hands off attractive blondes and whose foregin policy knowledge stops at “4 italian toppings” 2) A folksy Texan whose main claim to fame is that he can’t function under pressure unless he’s on painkillers but he did run the state with the most number of minimum wage jobs 3) An Ayn Rand acolyte who wants to return to the way things were in 1840 4) A flip-flopping hair-cream commercial who who “has hunted pretty much my whole life – squirrels and rabbits, mostly” and will say anything else he needs to to get elected 5) A pea-brained tea party babe whose husband makes money trying to “cure” gayness, and doesn’t know that the battle of Lexington and Concord wasn’t fought in New Hampshire or have a $2 a gallon clue about the laws of supply and demand, and the 1 guy who actually means something and knows where China is and that they’ve had nukes for 50 years is at %1. This is the cream of the Republican crop? Looks like it’s Obama time for another 4 ….

HopeSprings: That was a good one! :–) I cannot imagine!

I see some one here want to dismiss Perry’s episode as brief memory loss. Perry is running for the POTUS. he should know or (have it written down somewhere) which programs he would cut if elected POTUS. This is the best the Republicans have HUH. If some of you are so disgusted and fed up with Obama and you think this country is in trouble now,I say go ahead and vote one of these candidates in LOL trust you haven’t seen trouble yet. I see why they can’t come up with a jobs bill that doesn’t require spending and also one that will benefit ALL people. LOL RIDICULOUS

He is too much like president Bush, too many similarities outside the fact they are both Texans, pres. Bush a C student, Perry C-D student, both college cheer leaders, both stumble on words, he wants to send the military into Mexico, etc. I’m sorry but he’s not Bush lite, he’s Bush extra strength,

DD23: I hear where you are coming from but I see a bunch of incompetents on the GOP side and while Pres. Obama isn’t a saint, you just cannot blame him for everything. This is Global. Europe is in big trouble and it will affect us. No matter who is in office no one can fix things that have gone on for decades. We have many problems. We never should have gone into Iraq. There is fraud and greed all over. The Banks, Wall Street, big Corporations. It’s like the straw that broke the camel’s back. I would rather see Pres. Obama get in again than any of these circus clows. They know how to mudsling BUT they have no real solutions because there really are none except to do what we are doing, cutting back where we can. Companies promised employees all kinds of perks and early retirment… but that was long ago. Now they can’t keep their promises…so now what? See there is no easy solution to any of this. And we can’t keep taxing people either.

There was a GOP debate last night? Other than the media, political pundits, and the few groupies that will follow their candidate over a cliff, did anyone watch? Perry had another “oops” moment? Who cares! He has already proven himself to be dumber than a potato (no insult to potatoes intended). I am hoping for a “none of the above” option for the next presidential election.

How many Texas Governors does it take to screw in a lightbulb???? This guy has ALMOST the same amount of intelligence as gw. Go home Gov. Perry, this Nation needs people that CAN actually finish a whole sentence!!!

The guy never stood a chance. He’s more George Bush than George Bush. I dont think he has Bush’s integrity. All hat and no cattle. Being lucky in the right place at the right time isnt a qualification.

Wow, Obama can mention this when he campaigns in all 56 states!

KATE: 57 states is “alert, calm ……. ++++++++++++++++++ Shows how FEW mistakes our President makes because that 57 STATES crap was said BEFORE he even won the Presidency!!! With ALL these others and ESPECIALLY with gw bush, bigger mistakes were made EVERY WEEK!!! If only you Republicans were HALF as demanding when it comes to your OWN, because the present “Field” is a very sorry lot!! The BEST you have is Romney and most of the Right hates him!!!

He just needs teleprompter lessons/practice.

Demneme: Might I add: Romney’s healthcare plan is the same as Pres. Obama’s. :–) So I’ll assume the GOP cannot attack that!

Have you heard Obama when his teleprompter goes on the fritz? I mean seriously it’s strange.

I know there is fraud and corruption on both sides but the more I see of the GOP and their “clowns” the more the Dems look terrific. It’s very sad. They attack and go on rants just like some of these posters do but I do not see one real candidate…they all look like they’ve been let out on a day pass.

Posted by: Barb
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The more I see an unemployment rate of 9.1%, high gas prices and a lower national credit rating, the more terrific Obama’s opponents look.

As for rants, it seems to me you do just as much ranting as anyone else on this board.

granny…I think the point is the Dept of Education has been a breathtaking failure at its primary mission. Those primary functions should be handled at the state and local level at a much more palatable cost to those of us who pay taxes.

Wow, Obama can mention this when he campaigns in all 56 states!
Posted by: Kathryn | November 10, 2011, 10:30 am.

LOL! Kathryn, we only have 50 states. Most people know this, including the president. If you’re going to try and insult Obama by bringing up a gaffe he made four years ago, you should at LEAST get the details correct. His gaffe was ’57 states’, not 56 as you posted. And why bring up Obama at all? This story is about Perry and his gaffes. Gaffes that always get excused by the Right as simple, human mistakes. Yet when a Democrat makes one, y’all on the Right always portray it as proof positive that they are not smart. You employ the classic Republican double standard here…………

who is arkie vet?

“Reminds me of a female Sarah Palin.” – carole

I agree.
Yeah it’s nice to have a conservative with convictions running for President.
Kind of reminds me of Reagan.
Good catch there Carole

The problem with the Depts of Education (1979 under Carter) and Energy (1977 under Carter) is that they do a half-ass job, do that very inefficiently, and don’t give the taxpayer a whole lot of bang for the buck. If you are not aware of this you’ve been living somewhere other than the U.S. for the last 40+ years (or you’re not old enough to know any better).

So what if Perry has memory fade, we all have it sometimes. At least he recovers, more than I can say for the brain dead Senate and Congress we have now.

“Pres. Obama is alert, calm and has knowledge. Yes he too makes mistakes but when I compare him to these candidates he sure has my vote!” – Barb

I don’t know why Barb.
Prez Bama is working really hard and doing the absolute best he can and yet still falls short of performing his duties effectively. His best just doesn’t cut muster.
We need to give someone else a chance because 4 more years of failure is a bad idea.

Perry had a bad day with his memory but what is really bad are his policies. He brags about bringing jobs in, but isn’t it actually ‘stealing’ them from other states because he’s lowered Texas’ business tax or regulations? This is not really doing the country or our economy any good. We need jobs back from overseas, not to have state pitted against state for jobs.

“Sorry, but this guys major accomplishment so far is to make . . . . .
. . .Blah blah bladdity blah blah . . . . . .
. . . . Looks like it’s Obama time for another 4 ….” – Steve From NH

If true then we’re doomed.

Forget the gloom crowd, head for the light.
2012 vote conservative.

“They have been resurrecting the ’57 states’ gaffe every time a Republican makes a gaffe. Oddly, that is the ONLY gaffe of Obama’s they seem able to find” – SeaScrambledEggs

Yes that would be odd because NoBo has made many gaffes.
Let’s leave this alone, we don’t really need to go over that long list again.

S, just keep forgetting that it was a governor from the same state who’s policies put us into the mess we are in. Forget about the whole downward spiral that was happening slowly under Bush, the higher deficit because of tax cuts for the wealthy, two wars, only one of which was necessary, the jobs being shipped overseas, the whole banking industry that was left to run amok in their greed and how Bush tried feebly to stem the damage at the end of his 8 years. Just forget about all the wealth lost by so many in stocks, home values, investments and pensions and pretend any leader could have made our economy bounce back when the economies of the world were reeling from the damage our banks did.
Just keep telling yourself that the same policies that got us into this mess can straighten everything out. Because that is what Perry is promising, he will be Bush 3.

newcountryman | November 10, 2011, 10:59 am 10:59 am……..”The problem with the Depts of Education (1979 under Carter) and Energy (1977 under Carter) is that they do a half-ass job, do that very inefficiently,”……..I agree. We’re spending at 3 times as much on education and test scores the kids are performing poorer; and the original states goal of the Dept of Energy was energy independence, but it took a court order to get this administration to begin issuing drilling permits?

Librarian53 (11:09 PM); ” We need jobs back from overseas, not to have state pitted against state for jobs.” That’s a pretty good point, but some states are their own worse enemy. Look at California, and Michigan. I suspect we’ll be hearing about Washington State within a few years.

Deanbob (11:16 AM); The function of public education should definitely be done on a local level where the taxpayer sees what his/her money is accomplishing. The Dept of Energy just plain needs to go because it’s a complete failure.

So why aren’t we reading news about who did well in the debate, and what they said? Ron Paul.

Best thing about the debate last night was Newt’s slam on the media! Newt and Paul IMO were the overall winners. The others just rattled the same thing over and over and over and over …..

“That means all incumbents have to be voted out. That’s a pretty strong message if you think about it. Work or be replaced. “———————Another Obama basher with just opinions. He got OBL , the DOW is twice what it was when he took over from that right wing peon economy wrecking Bush , he made sure BP had to take care of Deepwater Horizon , when all the Big Oil butt-kissing brown-nosing conservatives were doing their level best to keep BP safe and sound , just like they are paid to do . People like you are the problem , i.e. clueless and too arrogant and petulant to realize it. That’s a blueprint for prototypical conservatives , you’re all alike to a tee , know-it-alls who can barely string together a cogent legible sentence yet want everyone to jump in line for a place on a new right wing ship of fools , ala Sarah Palin , Rick Perry et. al . What clods.

davem…and YOUR solution to ending the longest wave of high unemployment since the Great Depression? More spending? More of the same left-wing policies which have us right where we are today? Is that your solution? More of the same expecting different results. Talk about a clod.

“More of the same left-wing policies which have us right where we are today?”——————–The left wing did nothing much that got this country where it is today , 35 years of stupid Republican sitting in the Oval Office with the veto pen did though . Ignorant peons like you and all the other Obama / Democrat bashing twits in the USA are the problem , stupid with nothing but hollow baseless rhetoric and hyperbole and disingenuous half-truths or more usually , just flat-out bold-faced lies , ala FOX “news” . Conservatives have tried to pin their expensive wars and their decades of mismanagement of the US economy to this president , while they’ve obfuscated , stalled and done everything in their power to make him and his policies a failure , hurting America in the process badly to this day . You can try to paint that truth anyway you like , but the real facts are going to come raining down on the goon parade that is the RNC pretty soon , once they pick their main horse / fool to run against Obama . Then the fun begins . ; )

Mitt Romney is your 2012 Republican nominee. Get used to it….but the tea people are just going to hate it.

Conservatives have vowed to filibuster any legislation they don’t 100% agree with in the Senate , and the Democrats have needed a 60 vote majority , not 51 , since Scott Brown was elected which was barely one year after Mr. Obama tool office . The conservatives have used their favorite political tool , filibusters , and the threat of them since that very day in an attempt to make the economy stall and job creation to stagnate , all for their own narrow minded ideological political purposes . Not all Americans are stupid enough to be fooled by obvious snake oil salesmen like Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell John Boehner , Sarah Palin , Rick Perry , etc etc ad nauseum . The conservatives have proven they are not qualified nor capable of running the nation , their policies are simplistic and short sighted and invariably bad news for everyone who is not a corporate magnate or the top 5% . End of story .

Obama 2012 – whomever the GOP nominee will be can’t hold a candle to our President! Remember voters – all the “fixes” the GOP wannabe President’s are espousing to “fix” the economy are actually THE SAME “fixes” that caused the economy to fall off a cliff as Obama was taking over for Bush. I laughed last night when Huntsman said Obama’s had 2 years to fix the economy. It took Bush eight years to rape and pillage this country and Obama gets 2 years and a do nothing Congress to help him overcome that?!?! Take a long hard look at facts. Blaming Freddie and Fannie for the housing bubble is inaccurate. More private lenders and mortgage companies were responsible than Freddie and Fannie. Fact check!!!! So important before deciding who to believe!!!!

Governor Perry, please go have a cat scan done or something. Between the seeming drunk and the public amnesia, you may want to see a doctor and make sure the old coconut is Ok.

short memory or not, Republican or democrat, they are all different faces of the same coin. for the past half a century, the problems this country faced are the same, from unemployment to taxes, from health care too education, and the list goes on. every couple of years we hear form those who promise to fix one thing or another, and yet, NONE has been fixed or even partly repaired.
Isn’t it the time for the voters in this country to wake up, and demand accountability of all those clowns, at least if they do not fix what they promise to fix , to promise not to run again and let someone else try. see more on the-pledge dotcom

Why is it you Republicans seem to LOVE your people to be EXTREME AND AGAINST things? Ya love Newt because he gets off on insulting the media and press and you all love EVERY person there that spews some facet of HATRED towards SOME facets of the USA! I STILL say we’re ALL Americans although I’d be hard pressed to prove that when it come to REPUBLICANS!! What a sorry lot.

newcountryman – give it up dude. The teleprompter thing went out when Palin started reading from her hand. This issue here is Rick Perry has an obvious problem dealing with stress. For most Americans that’s not electable trait for President of the United States.

“Get real, media. You guys make a simple temporary loss of memory, in search for a word, sound like a major disaster.”
POSTED BY: RICK MCDANIEL | NOVEMBER 10, 2011, 9:13 AM 9:13 AM___________You think this is a laughing matter? Well, I’ve got news for you: we are talking about someone who seeks the oval office, who wants to be the leader of the free world, and who wants to be in possession of the nuclear code for the security of the United States. My friend, stupidity is not a qualification to hold such an important post. Sorry.

Wanting to get rid of education agency shows the GOP do not value education. No wonder their candidates are inept and stupid. Education is something that Perry needs, for sure.

Rick Perry is probably a pretty smart guy, but perhaps it’s just some dementia setting in.

DEMNME5 — Republicans vote for the extreme right because their thought process in completely and totally influenced by right wing media. As the radio pundits like Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck … compete for the microphone they each push the envelope further to the right thus taking their followers with them like pied pipers leading their flock to unknowing destruction. Most conservatives are Christians who are taught from birth to never question the man leading the flock as the bible is an unquestionable truth. Radio talk show hosts are the undeniable leaders of the conservative flock. The GOP, knowing our country is overwhelmingly Christian, has effectively taken ownership of the moral issues Christians value to garner votes for their economic policies that in reality are in total opposition to true Christianity.

The enormity of the destruction of this country under Bush is yet to be realized. People think it can matter that can be fixed in just four years. Let’s get a GOP president in the white house and see what happens. Things will continue to get worse. It would take more than a decade of sound economic policies to bring this country back to life. This is something Obama has tried to do, but the Republicans are busy obstructing everything.

The Liberal Media is SO funny!! —- They can’t even see their own bias of liberals over conservatives!! —- Can Perry Recover?? —- Is ANYTHING impossible when Obama could overcome VERY strange associations with Rev. Wright, Frank Davis, Tony Resko, William Ayers, Larry Sinclair, and Nadhmia Auchi?? — Is ANYTHING impossible when Obama could survive “57 states”, “bitter clingers”, “spread the wealth”, “some people have earned enough”, etc??? —– Just too funny!!!

@theloyal: actually it depends on what liberal media you’re referring to. I just read an editorial where the writer acknowledged that while the “oops” moment was bad, it wouldn’t be enough to end Governor Perry run for the White House.

NOFLYZONE, go back and read your 1:03 post and then tell us how a man that never ran a hot dog stand got the job. As far as stupidity, he showed it yet again this week by PO Israel.

“Wanting to get rid of education agency shows the GOP do not value education.” – NoFlyOnMeZone2

Au Contraire Mon Frere.
Education is too important to be in the hands of the inept Federal Government.

Have a Brain
2012 Vote Conservative.

After the debate Herman Cain should have gone over and given Perry a big hug. Perry’s meltdown certainly took the attention off Cain. These republican debates are the gift that keeps giving. The President gains millions of votes after every one of them.

Noz — are you actually trying to equate Rick Perry to Abraham Lincoln or even Ronald Reagan? —LOL, LOL, ROFL — Now that’s the funniest comment of the day. Both of those former President’s would be booed off the stage as liberals by the debate audience in today’s political environment.

“As a democrat the guy I would fear most in the general election is John Huntsman.” – Timbo Ferret

You are dead wrong.
Huntsman has Charlie Crist Disease, he can’t win.
You are trying to influence Repubs and Indies with your Demo-Babble?
Not a chance.

Brain freeze happens to everyone at one time or another, it has nothing to do with intelligence. But Romney was correct that Perry was dealt 4 aces in Texas. Any conservative could have accomplished what he did. Romney, on the other hand, had to work with 80 % democrats. That was a challenge and he did a great job. It shows he can work with the other side which is what we need to progress. I hope Romney is the nominee. Romney is not the left over candidate, or a default. That delusion is a result of media reports that are unfounded and based on 6 years of unrelenting vetting. In contrast, Obama was not vetted at all and it shows. I think you will find Romney is the man with the best chance to unseat Obama among the widest demographic. Most people I know have decided on Romney. He is calm and thinks things out. Romney has business and government experience that is sorely lacking in Obama and most of his Republican opponents. He has the best chance to turn the economy around because of his experience and history of working across party lines. He is not flashy, but a good stable man who loves his country and will do the best job. On the health care issue, he has the most experience as to what works and what does not. I think he will be able to offer some real help in that area and it will not include a Federal takeover.

If you want to see a politician fumble, then pull out the cable to Obama’s prompter, then what do you get? 57 States!