Glad you remembered it.Rick Perry • In response to the question, “You advocate the elimination of the Department of Energy …” The response earned huge laughs.
Rick Perry on Pakistan: ”Pakistan has proven they don’t deserve the foreign aid we send them.” What say you?
Making weakness a strength: That would seem to be the strategy Rick Perry is employing to try to weather his absolutely excruciating brain-lock at last night’s presidential debate (if you haven’t watched it yet, you really should). His tact from the moment he got off the stage (with reports from the spin room that he acknowledged he’d “stepped in it,” and a similar Tweet) seems to suggest his damage control plan is light humor at his own expense, to hope “oops” becomes a humanizing moment. source
If anyone’s looking for the slickest politician or the smoothest debater, I readily admit I’m not that person. I’m hoping the American people are the types of individuals who understand that there are mistakes that get made.Texas Gov. Rick Perry • Defending his infamous gaffe, where he awkwardly forgot one of the departments he recommended eliminating, on “Fox & Friends” this morning. Many, including us, called it a campaign-killer. He’s not doing bad as far as the apologies go, though, and that could save him. Can he be a frontrunner again, though? Considering he came in as the Great Texas Hope, that’s the real question. source (via • follow)
Rick Perry wins the award for snatching … um, victory … from the jaws of defeat.
Here’s the aforementioned Rick Perry moment, in all its brutal glory.
…and by the way, that was the Department of Energy I was reaching for a few moments ago.Rick Perry, using the first few seconds of his next answer to try to blunt the damage from the epic blank he drew when trying to list three government agencies he’d abolish.
Rick Perry goes down: The Texas governor just endured an excruciating and politically devastating moment in this debate, in which he was challenged by a moderator to name the three government agencies he’d said he wanted to do away with. He awkwardly answered “Department of Education… uhm… Commerce.” And that was it. (EDIT: Here’s the video.) After a good six seconds of excruciating silence, the moderator moved on, Perry’s complete blanking made all too obvious. We really can’t overstate what a disaster this moment was for Rick Perry — it was undoubtedly the single worst debate moment for any candidate this cycle, and will likely be remembered as the final nail in his presidential coffin.
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On Medicaid, it’s really pretty simple. Like Jon and Mitt know, you send it back to the states and let us do it.Rick Perry, saying the states will be able to handle Medicaid reforms safely and responsibly.
What’s your presidential candidate’s sign? Depends on who you’re looking at. In the case of Rick Perry, it’s a calm, confident and collected signature, befitting of a longtime governor. In Barack Obama’s case, it’s showy, with giant letters for emphasis. In other cases (Herman Cain, ex-candidate Tim Pawlenty), the candidates sign it like a doctor might — ironic, considering the actual doctor in the campaign, Ron Paul, has a clean signature himself. Check out the signatures that Buzzfeed gathered. They’re pretty interesting.
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“This is one of the actions in America that is the reason why people don’t get involved in politics,” Mark Block, chief of staff to Cain’s campaign, said in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Special Report. “The actions of the Perry campaign are despicable.”
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
It’s always important to look at who you’re quoting before you quote them. It could happen to anybody, though. One writer here at ShortFormBlog, who shall remain nameless, once mistook this Onion article for the real thing up until about halfway through.
A very, very energetic Rick Perry: In this case, “energetic” is a euphemism for “dangerously over-caffeinated, perhaps to the point of requiring medical attention.” We’re not quite sure what to make of this bizarre speech Perry gave to New Hampshire Republicans a couple of days ago. He’s not just unusually expressive; he looks like he’s about to burst (fast-forward to 2:30 or so if you’re feeling impatient). His frantic performance might make slightly more sense if he were speaking to an ultra-conservative crowd in South Carolina or something, but was a room full of New Hampshire moderates. Color us baffled, but at least he didn’t come off as over-prepared. source
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