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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I have a question for you and all who care to answer. If it turns out to be Romney V Barry. Would you sit this one out and give it to Barry? Let’s just assume for this question that Palin does not get in.
Mitt made Perry look like an azz hat.
And I’m no Mitt supporter either.
This is gonna sound like I’m on a high horse but i’ll say it anyway.......
Those of us from TX have been warning those of you (Perry riders) NOT from TX, that Perry has warts and immigration was the BIGGEST of them all.
Can you hear me now???
Do you believe us now???
Bachman is correct. Fences work. They are not fool proof, but done right they are a tremendous force multiplier.
Perry knows this too. That’s why he and his cheap labor lovin $$$$ donors in Texas don’t want a fence. It slows down the supply of cheap labor.
Have a great day..... Flame away!
Please Sarah! Announce already and spare us this nightmare of lightweights who are only going to ensure we nominate Romney.
Perry performed an amazing feat-—he made both Romney and Obama look like election shoo-ins.
Well, the purpose of these GOP debates is to weed out candidates who cannot defend or articulate their positions.
Perry is at least now totally not ready for prime time.
In 2008 Palin was unprepared and got destroyed in hostile CBS interview. Most high schoolers would have performed better in that debate.
Whoever emerges now as the GOP nominee, will hopefully be strong enough and will be not derailed by hostile debate hosts or Obambi.
As for debate performance, Newt, Santorum, Romney and maybe even Cain are strong.
Maybe Perry can improve, but now he is just embarrassing and would have no chance in general election (with lots of hostile interviews by DNC agents in State Media).
Perceptions matter.
Well, the purpose of these GOP debates is to weed out candidates who cannot defend or articulate their positions.
Perry is at least now totally not ready for prime time.
In 2008 Palin was unprepared and got destroyed in hostile CBS interview. Most high schoolers would have performed better in that debate.
Whoever emerges now as the GOP nominee, will hopefully be strong enough and will be not derailed by hostile debate hosts or Obambi.
As for debate performance, Newt, Santorum, Romney and maybe even Cain are strong.
Maybe Perry can improve, but now he is just embarrassing and would have no chance in general election (with lots of hostile interviews by DNC agents in State Media).
Perceptions matter.
The person I saw yesterday standing behind the podium reserved for Rick Perry, was George W Bush.
Bush has lots of nice qualities, but he lost me the day he called me a ‘vigilante’.
Not me, personally, but those who support US sovereignty.
So far, I don’t really see any of our candidates very good on that issue.
Perry is starting to sound exactly like Bush.
The “heartless” bit did it for me. That’s the leftist mantra. Anybody against government handouts is just heartless. Brings to mind compassionate conservative. He would give fuel to democrats in their demonization of us.
In the real world, this is a two man race, and in that world debates wont matter, money, message, and record will and in that debate, Romney will lose everywhere that matters in Republican primaries. Romney can not win in the south or the west, he will take a handful of Northeastern liberal states, along with possibly Arizona and Utah and Perry will sweep the rest. Heck most of those people on stage last night wont even be in the race 2 months from now.
This is exactly the way I see it. I believed Perry was probably the best compromise candidate, but his debate performances have been truly awful. Some of what he said on immigration particularly was downright off putting.
We don't need another President who can't think on their feet or communicate effectively. This is the problem that plagued Bush, and Perry seems as if he could be just as poor at getting his message across.
What is striking about Perry is his complete inability to shut any of the criticisms of him down. He just can't answer any of his weaknesses effectively enough to put them to bed. My gosh, he is still allowing himself to beat up over the stupid Gardasil issue, yet Romney is slick enough to walk away nearly untouched on Romneycare.
Sadly, I lost my grip and fell off the Perry bandwagon last night.
Right now, I am planning to vote for Cain. I had wavered some about Sarah, but now I am really hoping she gets in.
I did like the format where each candidate got a short answer on some questions. I hate when only one or two get a qustion and the rest are left out.
slick...
you are on to something but don’t realize it.
We haven’t yet chosen a candidate. It’s too soon to ask that question. Our job right now is to look at what is out there for the primaries. Period.
I guess that loud boo for his comments last night was just from the “deport them all crowd.”
As I’ve been saying for a while, he is a RINOcrat pretending to be conservative. The charade is falling apart now.
We need a Bachmann-Palin alliance to combat the Mitt-Perry axis of crony capitalism.
I'll agree with you on that. I didn't watch the entire debate, but I really liked Newt last night.
You can wish that's all it was. But it wasn't.
“But if you’re saying we should not educate children who were brought to our state, by no fault of their own, you have no heart,”
People are broke and have no jobs. He LOST on that statement.
I just don’t get how he could have got this far with the way he was trippin all over his lips last night. So disappointed. Tell ya what, I won’t be watching the debates if he’s the nominee, I’d just cry watchin him, dang
Yes, he has always been that bad. However, the Texas gubernatorial race has had little to do with debates. I don't think he even bothered to debate the dem last time. He did debate the republican challengers and came off the same way IMO; but stomped them in the primary anyway. I don't think he can get away with that approach in a presidential campaign, though.
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