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Subscribe to RSSJust like Charlie Brown, Rick Perry has had several chances to kick that football to the GOP nomination -- but he keeps on falling down. And there isn’t a Lucy to blame.
On paper, the Texas governor is the most logical person to benefit from a potential Herman Cain downfall.
He's currently the country's longest-serving governor. He's an outspoken critic of the president with conservative credentials. And he's got the money.
But every time Perry seems to have an opportunity to make a positive second impression, he gets overshadowed by something negative -- of his own creation.
Last week, when he unveiled his flat-tax plan, the thing he hoped could catapult him past Cain and his 9-9-9 plan, he was instead answering questions about (1) whether or not he thought President Obama was born in America, and (2) whether or not he would attend future debates.
Then today, Perry stood to benefit from the allegations that Cain sexually harassed two women when he was head of the National Restaurant Association. But, instead, what's getting attention -- besides those allegations against Cain -- is a zany speech Perry gave Friday in New Hampshire.
These openings don't come along very often, and Perry's chances at capitalizing are becoming slimmer with just 64 days to go before voting in Iowa.
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Only a complete FOOL, moron or someone with a LOT of shucking and jiving experience would run for Pres with THIS in their closet
Watch Cain closely when he speaks. Rapid eye blinkings, constant lip licking. He just comes ACROSS as a flim flam man, but hey there's one born every minute who can be fooled ALL of the time. Enjoy your snake oil!
Snake oil, you say?
How's this.............."I will have NO lobbyists in my White House!" (Obama)
How's this..............." I will bring the 2 parties together and rise above the politics." (Obama)
Leona- Any comments on Perry? What a great video huh? Yes, he comes across real smart!!! And Obama has tried to bring the two parties together, the party of NO declined! LOL Polly want a cracker, keep on parroting faux noise!
hummbird,
Obam tried to bring the two parties together, you say?
You have amnesia.
Obama said ( during the healthcare debacle) to John McCain...." John, the election is over, I WON".....and
...."We drive the car, the Repubs can sit in the back" .
Guess what, Mr.President, there are 3 branches of govt....... You are NOT KING.
Leona, Please try to stay on topic, The discussion here is about Cain and Perry. Your deflection is not working. Have you noticed that you are losing in the "like" catagory?
It seems to me that everyone is missing the point. In the first place this smells like Karl Rove to me. I hardly think any Democrat would waste such a gem now. Most libs I think would be rooting for Cain like mad to get the nod. Save the ammo for when it would do some real good.
Second it isn't even the act that will do Cain in. It will be the cover up that gets him. It was the cover up that got Nixon........It was the lying that caught up with Clinton, Libby and others, and so it will be Cain's undoing. Cain has said he did not harrass anyone and didn't know about any payout???? As the head of an organization even if an insurance co. paid them for keeping quiet he had to know plain and simple.
corybud: "In the first place this smells like Karl Rove to me"
With all due respect to your opinion, thanks BUT NO THANKS for planting another LIE.
You're replying about Cain on a Perry Post but I completely agree with you.
1. I would love for Cain to get the GOP nod. Most Dems would love that, it's perfect.
2. No Dem would want to take Cain down this early. We would save all this for much later. Only the GOP would work this hard to bring Cain down this early.
I predict that within 24 hours there is a good chance that he or his physician will make a statement that this was all due to the pain medications he was taking for his back. However, given that he has these issues, then perhaps this shouldn't be running for President.
The man needs a teleprompter but then again, would it really help?
Good Gawd! Perry is GW, on some bad drugs!
One too many trips to the open bar before his speech I think. Being a village idiot from Texas is one thing (how many of those do you suppose Texas has?), but a village idiot with one too many bourbons in him...I give you Rick Perry.
my hope is that this will open the eyes of Texans. This guy is an embarrassment. Can a Governor be impeached?
Perry is just another lying " family values " hypocrite Republican. America should be embarrassed by these fools.
Missing his chance? Perry has no chance, and neither do any of the freaks that make up the GOP.
Man, he really did sound like one of those after dinner speakers who maybe had a few too many cocktails at the open bar beforehand.
This is the best you can do GOP? Seriously? Why can't you just admit it, like him or not Romney is easily the best candidate you got. They quicker the GOP gets behind Romney, the quicker they can get on with the campaign, and hopefully the quicker we can put these Tea Party people in the rearview mirror.
There just isn't anyone of any intellectual standing at all that can possibly hold views consistent with the Tea Party, because the Tea Party itself is so impractical and irrational. So, they can't find a candidate who is really completely in tune with the Tea Party who also isn't a total idiot like Perry or Bachmann. This is what happens, Tea Party, when you operate on the radical fringe. Sorry the truth hurts. Actually I'm not sorry at all.
Funny how the tea party representitive's to the election (palin, bachmann, perry, cain) are the ones who get blasted when the factual effects of their plans are brought to light. The tea party's ideology is standing in the way of this nations progress.
Well, drewv, that is definitely true in my opinion. The key here, in my opinion, isn't just stringing together Democratic victories. It's having someone in the GOP who can lead at a national level somewhere closer to the middle than the Perry, Backmann, Cain type people. We need that.
I will still vote Democratic myself. But what we need is a GOP candidate who, in a national campaign, can make a credible campaign that doesn't kowtow to the Tea Party. They need to lead the extremists, not kowtow to them.
The answer to the Tea Party is a string of electoral defeats. if the Tea Party continues to dominate the GOP at the national level, a string of defeats will convince the GOP that they need to develop voices in the middle, and then govern from the middle and so they can win, or else become a regional party of the deep south. Moderate voices in the GOP need to balance out the Tea Party. That's the answer to those lunatics.
Isn't happening yet, but nothing like repeated failure to convince them it has to happen.
Every time Rich Perry opens his mouth, he stuffs his foot in it. He is digging his way to China with his verbal accusations and dirty politics.
Dirty politics, you say?
How's this.............."I will have NO lobbyists in my White House!" (Obama)
How's this..............." I will bring the 2 parties together and rise above the politics." (Obama)
"Leona" he tried, the system is broken and no one person can fix it. We the people have the power if we take it back. Politically the 99% can win by just voting.
Are we sure that this is not a SNL parody? A little scary......
This guy comes across as the "village idiot."------------he looks goofy---even worse than GWB.
Yes, village idiot is right. Even if GWB lives in that village, Perry can lay claim to village idiot hands down.
The thought of electing this 'goof ball' gives credence to the idea that we should change "God Bless America" to "God Help America."
The longer Perry stays on stage the more I realize that he is even dumber that GW Bush. What would be really scary is having another President dragging this country farther into an abyss, just when we are beginning to find a way out of 8 years of Bush dragging this country into wars and recession.
What really gets me is, who in heavens name would give money to his campaign?????-----maybe from the estates of the committed!!!!----------what sane individual would want to finance that clown????
Oh, come on, he has no more chances, Cain is a pervert, Romney is an political opportunist and Perry is a Tender foot without shoes.
The Tea Party and the Super committee should all appear on SNL and amuse a crying America or add greater sense of depression!
Perry, all hat, no cattle.
The only thing that I could utter after watching that video was "Oh, my God!!"-----------and his wife said a few weeks ago "wait till you hear him speak, he will be much better"----------my advice to her is "wake up."
Was he on something???
WOW. Just WOW. Was Perry stoned? Or drunk? Or is he just really that inane all the time?
How many had ricky put back before he got up to speak. Wow! After he got off the stage he drunk dialed G.W. and told him he loved him. LOL!
Seeing as the pizza king is opposed to abortion in cases of incest, these sexual harrasment charges make me wonder about his relationship with his sisters and cousins.
Hermann promises delivery in 30 minutes or less, or else your next unwanted sexual advance is free of charge!
Perry looks like he's having a side effect of a drug. So this is the best man in Texas, huh?
The Idea of Perry is better than the reality of him actually getting the nomination. He keeps falling for the tricks of the liberal media. He needs to pull a Newt and turn the questions back at the press.
Q: Was Obama born in the US?
A: We have all seen the Birth Certificate, Increasing the national debt by $7 Trillion and a consitant %9+ unemployment rate.
Dude, you need to wake up now - too much tea (party) for you...
Bruce Bartlett, Ex-Reagan Economist: Idea That Deregulation Leads To Jobs 'Just Made Up'
"Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today," writes Bruce Bartlett. He's an economist who worked for Republican congressmen and in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
As for the idea that cutting regulations will lead to significant job growth, Bartlett said in an interview, "It's just nonsense. It's just made up."
Government and industry studies support his view.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks companies' reasons for large layoffs, found that 1,119 layoffs were attributed to government regulations in the first half of this year, while 144,746 were attributed to poor "business demand."
By CHARLES BABINGTON 10/30/11 01:07 PM ET
Bartlett, whose books on tax policy include "The Benefit and the Burden," recently wrote in the New York Times: "People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them."