Video: Perry’s cringe-worthiest debate moment
This is a gimme. Seriously.
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.
Video thanks to The Right Scoop. The lackluster stumbling starts at around 1:28 into the clip:
Transcript:
PERRY: “I think Americans just don’t know sometimes which Mitt Romney they’re dealing with. Is it the Mitt Romney that was on the side of…against…the Second Amendment before he was for the Second Amendment…was it was..before he was before these social programs, uh, from the standpoint he was standing, uh, for Roe vs. Wade before he was against Roe, uh, Roe vs. Wade…uh…he was…uh for Race To The Top…
Uh…[pause]…he’s for Obamacare and now he’s against it…I mean, we’ll wait until tomorrow and, and, and wait to see which Mitt Romney we’re really talking to…
He should have gone for the jugular. He spent more time juggling and fumbling his words with a bizarre, half-hearted attitude. Get your points down, man. It’s easy if you try.
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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.
Ann Coulter tweets: “Governor Perry losing debate with his own tongue.”
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Oh my!
THIS is the part where Cain was mentioned by name, and didn’t get to have his time for comment!
I wasn’t sure whether my ears had played a trick on me or not.
Well, I have to agree to a certain extent but at least, to his credit, he wasn’t using a teleprompter.
AAAaand uhhhh aand uhhh…
Also I have to say the statement about shovel ready jobs and dogs was plagiarized. Rush said the same thing on his show today. I don’t know if that was original on his part but I KNOW he said it on the radio and it was ‘lifted’ by the former NM governor.
I’m sure someone else has mentioned this in another thread on the debate but I haven’t seen comments on that thread so I made the point here.
I made that point in my debate wrap-up post. Scroll down and read.
We’re not in trouble, because Perry is not going to be the candidate.
Hi Ms Malkin! Always pleasant when you participate in the comments!
If Herman Cain isn’t the chosen nominee, he MUST be the running-mate. A ticket without him will be a disaster.
Perry shot his wad with no ball loaded.
He never reloaded, either.
Rick Perry is actually 2007′s Miss Teen South Carolina. Who knew?
Right on target as usual. And forgive my violent tendencies.
Perry is never going to attract Tea Party voters as long as he is soft on “Invasion.”
56survivor /Hillbuzz said:
Perry seems confused. I think he has forgotten all the talking points Rove crammed into his head before the debate. It’s either that, or the questions he is being asked aren’t answered by the canned answers he memorized.
I thought the same.
Hill 44 has made this Perry’s theme-song….
>>>I’m Too Sexy<<<
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YUXIKrOFk&feature=player_embedded
Fox News Poll:
Mitt Romney 23.3% (11,113 votes)
Rick Perry 12.74% (6,076 votes)
Newt Gingrich 7.21% (3,439 votes)
Ron Paul 38.08% (18,160 votes)
Rick Santorum 1.42% (677 votes)
Gary Johnson 2.02% (964 votes)
Herman Cain 11.41% (5,440 votes)
Michele Bachmann 2.18% (1,038 votes)
Jon Huntsman 1.63% (779 votes)
This clip was cringe-inducing. Just awful. The Cocktail Party GOP Establishment served a smack-down on the Tea Party, sad to say. We’re either stuck with keeping ObamaCare if Romney wins or amnesty for illegal aliens if Perry wins.
And those are out choices. The Establishment has made sure of it.
Oh, and Ron Paul is still nuts.
I like a lot of what Perry has had to say and and much of what he has been able to accomplish as Governor of Texas. But he jumped the shark as far as I am concerned when he justified rewarding illegals with in state tuition. He’s way too weak on illegal immigration. I can’t support him.
Let me guess, you wanted her to join in on your homosexual bashing bigotry. I’m pretty sure she doesn’t go for that either.
I just sent Perry a email indicating that if hardworking taxpayers like me who expect our laws against illegals to be enforced are “heartless” then he goes “voteless” in my house and I will spread the word about what a creep and a fraud he actually is. sounds like Jorge Booshe II to me, and that’s horrific.
giving these america-hating law-evading invaders my kids’ college spots and my tax money as well is cause for you to be put out with the garbage where you belong.
F Perry.
I’ll stick with the Dream Act crap from Perry as worst of the evening. Thankfully I didn’t have cable TV with which to punish myself with the debate.
I cannot tell you how much mac ‘n cheese I ate, while working at multiple part-time jobs to get through college, only to see the university system relentlessly pursue state-sponsored discrimination on behalf of you-name-the-protected-minority, who evidently deserved more than I ever did.
Mr. Perry can cram that mac ‘n cheese up his backside if he thinks the children of illegal aliens can’t go back to their native country and get their education there. The universities there are probably better anyway.
Oh, the flip-flops, how could I forget the flip-flops! I take back the candy bar I gave Romney on the other thread. Maybe he’ll take a gummi bear. It’s been in my pocket. They’re real warm and soft.
Perry still gets a rock.
must be cain
If he promises free pizzas to every American, I’m in.
And the RINOpublican party will wind up nominating this worthless candidate, and giving The Won “FORE” MORE YEARS.
Is there any more proof needed that Marxists have taken over the RINOpublican party? Does ANYONE STILL have ANY doubt on this?
I’m going to miss this country.
YES WE CAIN!
I cringed when the audience booed a soldier currently serving in Iraq who asked about DADT.
What the hell? Where did they get those people? Even if you oppose the repeal of DADT (which I think is ridiculous), booing a soldier’s question?
Bachmann nailed it in a post interview when she said we can nominate a constitutional conservative. Why is it everyone is running away from that principal?
One other item Ricky. The word is ILLEGAL. Say it; go on, it won’t hurt. Ron Paul may indeed be nuts, but I’d take him over Ricky any day of the week.
Say what you want about all the candidates up on stage but Ricky is the only one ready to give this country to the ILLEGALS.
Romney is a phony, Perry is either on quaaludes or is hypoglycemic (and his positions on illegals are hideous).
Bachmann is still hung up on needle-raping girls with Liquid-Whore and Ron Paul is Dennis Kucinich without the hottie redheaded wife. Santorum, Johnson and Huntsman should drop out.
Cain and Newt acquitted themselves well. If only Newt stayed away from Pelosi, didn’t attack Paul Ryan and had stable relationships with women.
Oy gevalt.
I can hardly believe all the flip-flopping by Romney.
So imagine a Romney v Obama debate–it would be like a 15 round boxing match. No need for anybody to ask any questions, just give each of them a list of the other’s flip-flops, the things they were for before they were against ‘em and the things they were against before they were for ‘em, let ‘em put on the gloves and go for it. By the end of it, we won’t know what either of them stands for. Of course, I don’t know how good Obama will do trying to dance around his flip-flops, cuz, uh, well, he’ll be wearing them.
Go Ron Paul and Cain! Nuts or not, time for a change, instead of the same old rino puppet theater.
Once again, I feel like a survivor on a raft heading for the falls. Shoot me and get it over with.
OK Sarah, here’s your chance, get in.
If Paul gets elected it will guarantee a wild pendulum swing back left, and Carville will be in the salad days again. “40 years of Democratic Rule!”
I feel the same way, just get it over with and shoot me in the face with a can of ‘Easy Cheese’ Bacon And Cheddar preferably.
I reject the premise.
All I can figure is that he believes that “the kids should not pay for the crimes of the parents”. He does not understand that although they are sweet kids, they are not Americans and they are here illegally. Their parents bear the responsibility for that fact. It should be enough that they are being allowed to stay in the country and actually enroll in school.
If it’s “not a crime” then get Congress to change the laws, or open the borders to highly educated professionals from around the world. We don’t need 30 million more apple pickers and ditch diggers.
StaceyOfLiberty #24:
I also cringed, but for another reason: this ‘soldier’ is what I’ve always been afraid:
Individuals for whom the rainbow flag is more important than the American Flag.
In case you’ve forgotten, going into the armed forces is VOLUNTARY. Nobody forces you to be a soldier. The mission of the military is to destroy the enemy, kill as many of them as efficiently as possible, with as little cassualties of your own as possible.EVERYTHING that gets in the way of that should be eliminated. DADT was there for a reason: homosexual activity gets in the way of the mission. As a matter of fact, any fraternization ‘in country’ gets in the way of the mission. Call me old fashioned, but the military shouldn’t be used as lab rats for social experimentation. It gets in the way of the mission.
Perry:
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WHAT PART OF ‘ILLEGAL’ DONT YOU UNDERSTAND????
Errah, Regarding Perry’s Double Down on the Dream Act; Santorum slammed him on the fact that Illegals can still pay full fare just like American Citizens do and there is no reason to give them a leg up on US Citizens. By law employers aren’t allowed to hire them so what’s the point??!! ABBP (Anybody But Perry) in my book. Adios muchacho!
Save or Create 40 Million job, Build the fence! every mile, every yard, every foot and every inch!
PALIN/CAIN 2012
I can always dream…..AAHHHHHH.
I just heard Gary Johnson on tv saying that we need to cut the military by 42%. He’s as bad as the Ronulan!!
Perry also told a big whopper when he cited that he had been lobbied to fight for that program by a 31-year-old cervical cancel victim. It turns out that he only met her AFTER he failed to get the bill passed. Another episode in “lying, cheating and stealing our way to virtue”.
Oops, I was referring to the Cardisil vaccine program in my comment #41.
I would like to see Fort Knox audited though. “It seems we have 4,600 metric tons of lead coated with gold-colored enamel paint. It is uncertain what exactly happened to the gold.”
You don’t want much, do you?
conservativehispanic, with all due respect, Stephen Hill is serving in Iraq right now. Do you really, without even knowing him, question his commitment to the American flag?
On Palin’s first bus tour she enticed Perry into the race with a few well chosen comments. Perry took the bait and now. after Bachman has been all but eliminated, Perry himself is imploding.
Palin will get in the race shortly and it will be between her and Romney, The establishment versus the citizen candidate.
And their are still people who think Palin is not very bright. Amazing!
Before someone asks, here’s the link.
Alas, we have nothing approaching Reagan going for us. So, the way it will play out is:
Romney wins the presidency in 2012 (not because he’s stellar, but because Oblunder is a disaster).
Crony capitalism (plus the Chris Matthews faction), destroy Romney’s re-election chances in 2016. Some Despercrat weasels his/her way into the Oval Office in 2017.
The Despercrat royally screws things up, and we finally get Reagan II in 2021: Marco Rubio.
StaceyOfLiberty:
YES.
“I had to lie about who I am???” No you didn’t. You should have been honest. You have an agenda. Serving the country isn’t it.
Unfortunately, I don’t believe we have the luxury of waiting until 2021 for a conservative to take office. If we follow that path, there won’t be an America (at least not as the FF intended) for Rubio to run.
We have the opportunity at this point to REJECT completely the candidate that the MSM (Fox News included) seem desperate to foist upon us. Romney & Perry are both crooks, jokers and liars and I for one will never vote for either of them. If we let our candidate be chosen FOR us, then we are as guilty of trying to ruin this great country as BO and his minions.
This isn’t about finding the perfect candidate – it’s about weeding out the RINO’s and replacing them with true conservatives. That sounds daunting but it is possible and I reject the premise that the election is already won by anyone right now.
People – don’t lie down & just accept whatever “they” want to give you!!
We are in a middle of a RINO stampede. Time to get out those
buffaloRINO guns and thin the herd.Word is something’s falling out of the sky today.
Maybe with some luck it will land on Washington DC.
I’ll double-down on that!
Agreed! But it’s the rest of the Idiot American Electorate I worry about.
Palin (or her equivalent) would be such a breath of fresh air, but too much of the nation — in the aggregate — is hopelessly incapable of grasping that.
Huntin’ season on all RINO’s – I LOVE it!!
And I love the Palin/Cain 2012 – maybe I’ll put that bumper sticker on my car : )
Thank you buzdburd. Let’s get the ball rolling.
I truly believe that those are the two that can deliver us from the evil that we are currently surrounded by!
Pasadena Phil:
RINO hunting? I love it!!! Just make sure you bring plenty of ammo!
Palin/Cain 2012
I don’t know what people were expecting?
The guy sounds like a typical Texan.
Remember people: you are the folks who hate education, educators, Ivy League and smart people.
The future belongs to well educated, articulate people who understand things like global warming.
The past belongs to all of you.
I had promised myself I wasn’t going to feed the trolls anymore, but I’m going to make an exception here. ILMC – you need to keep up. “Global warming” is now called “Climate Change”. Maybe you’re the one that’s stuck in the past.
Ilovetostickmyheadupmya$$:
The future belongs to those of us who live in the REAL WORLD, not to those of you who desperately cling to a 19 century philosophy (Marxism), which has FAILED EVERY TIME IT’S BEEN TRIED.
Talk about madness.
If America teaches us anything, is that you don’t need an overrated, overpriced, elitist Ivy League education to be successful.
P. S.: “GLOBAL WARMING” IS A FRAUD.
Errah, ILMC = I Love Most Communists
Time for Palin!
And that many Ivy Leaguers in politics have done more harm than good for the nation.
Is that right? What was the quality of education like in this country before liberals got hold of it, versus after?
Here’s a fun fact, ilmai: The U.S. spends more money on education per student than any other industrialized nation, but gets consistently worse results in terms of student performance. Now whom do you blame for that state of affairs, conservatives or liberals?
You might want to read a few columns by this college professor. You may finally find yourself getting an education if you do.
Nothing says rollicking good fun for all if and when Palin announces her entry into the race.
Yes it was wrong to boo the soldier. The question I now have though is that soldier going to face disciplinary action for participating in a political event while in uniform (he was wearing the standard issue Army PT Uniform in the video). The Military does not allow the wear of military uniforms at political functions as it could be missrepresented as the military is taking a side. The soldier had every right under the 1st ammendment to ask the question (and he should have been treated with respect regardless of ones beliefs on the question), but he should not have been wearing the uniform.
Ilovmycountry: Wasted words cousin.
The soldier that lied to “serve”. In the CG I would tell him, get off my damn boat.
Cain is still my choice.
The Republic isn’t going away if we get a RINO as President. More and more conservatives will be elected to the House and Senate.
The Ilovemycountry types get in the way. There are many of them, to many. We need to push them out of the way. They are the ones living in the past.
If Romney is THE BUSINESSMAN he claims to be, then why don’t we hear some of his pro-business ideas instead of him talking like the ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN he always sounds like? Where’s his evidence business has flourished in Massachusetts?
Mitt’s father was a Republican Governor, and Mitt entered politics as an Independent. In other words, he wasn’t sure he liked Republicans or Democrats.
If Mitt gets elected, we’ll have out first Independent President, whether Mitt admits it or not.
@conservativehispanic: I’m sorry, I don’t understand your point. He is serving his country, and to do so, he’s had to hide the fact he’s gay.
Straight people do not have to hide the fact they’re straight. Men in the service can admit to having a wife or a girlfriend, for instance. If they weren’t allowed to do this, I think they would reasonably be irritated, but that wouldn’t mean they weren’t good soldiers or that they had a pro-heterosexual agenda.
@Truesoldier
That is interesting about the uniform, I didn’t know that. Thanks for explaining.
Actually, it’s not that he wasnt sure if he liked either, its that he probably had to take time top put his finger in the wind to determine which party would give him more traction in politics.
I’m less impressed with Perry every time I see him. I hope Herman Cain hangs in there–love him!!
Well, I guess there’s no future for you Poindexter!
Rick Perry’s position on ILLEGAL Immigration is horrendous. No funding for fences, no beefed-up border patrol, no profiling, no deporting, no arresting, no nothing. And, those drug dealing cartel terrorists warring with each other even to the point of spilling across our borders, no problemo.
This is a HUGE issue for me – NO Perry
Bachmann didn’t bring the subject up it was that lefty questioner Wallace. I did see Rep. Bachmann defend what is a basic right of a parent to take care of their own children or did see a different debate.
I said it yesterday on the Debate thread here, there is only 3 conservatives in the race so far. That would be Michele Bachmann, Cain and Santorum, that’s it the others all waffle on one subject or another. Remember this is a sales campaign, not a test of one’s honesty. They prove or have proven what they are by their actions in the past not empty words for the future(selling).
StaceyOfLiberty:
My point: To be a soldier is VOLUNTARY. He knew about DADT BEFORE he enrolled. He got in anyway. He has an agenda.
-If you’re legally blind, you shouldn’t try to be a sniper.
-If you can’t swim, you shouldn’t try for the SEALS.
-If you’re a racist jerk, you shouldn’t be in the military. You’re bound to bump into people of other races.
-If you can’t stand the sight of blood and guts, you shouldn’t try to be a medic.
-If you’re flamboyantly or openly gay, and you knew about DADT, you shouldn’t complain when they kick you out.
-Like I said, ANYTHING that gets in the way of the mission should be eliminated.
Now that they’re a “protected class”, we’ll see the corrossive effect of gays being sexual with each other on board ships and ‘in country’. The leftist jihad against our military continues.
I’d like Santorum/Cain, or Cain/Santorum, Santorum/Bachmann or Santorum/Paul Ryan.
Conservative Hispanic @#79.
Well said and I agree. The military is no place for social experimentation and, yes, an openly gay person who “comes on” to a straight person could create an environment that threatens good order and discipline. Remember, the military live in close quarters, especially in a war zone.
Somewhat O/T, as Romney’s flip-flopping hardly makes me shrug anymore. Perry was more than a “disappointment” yesterday; I was stunned at his tone-deafness.
Anti-corporatism aside (run, Sarah, run!), I just wrote the following to the Perry campaign:
I do not need to vote for a Republican if I want to support illegal immigration (which includes taxpayer dollars paying for their education). YOU HAVE LOST MY VOTE IN THE FLORIDA PRIMARY. I do *not* want any “BS” response (I’m originally from Washington, DC and worked in the Federal Government for 12 years), AT A MINIMUM a full admission of error for this akin to your public Gardasil statement. YOU LOSE.
Thank you, FirstSkirt. Nice to make your acquaintance.
Holy Frak!!!
God help us.
The Left believes it is and will continue to exert its influence for radical social change on one of the most conservative government institutions remaining.
hawkeye54:
We’re fighting the Borg Collective… and we’re losing. Where’s our Admiral Janeway? Oh, yes…
PALIN/CAIN 2012
hawkeye54:
We’re fighting the Borg Collective… and we’re losing. Where’s our Admiral Janeway? Oh, yes…
PALIN/CAIN 2012
Dream Ticket or Nightmare Ticket. Depending on one’s POV.
Both deemed traiters to their respective gender and race by the Left, which, in response, would go nuclear and sink to the lowest depths of depravity to destroy them.
YES! Who is honest? Who is a person of integrity? Who do you trust?
We all need to lift up these three FINE people. All would liquefy Obama in debates.
Cain, Santorum, Bachmann…LET’S ROLL!
StaceyofLiberty
The military discriminates against people all the time. If you are disabled, sick or pregnant or too obese to pass PT, you don’t get in.
The idea behind DADT was to allow gays to serve without compromising soldier morale.
Regardless of what your personal views on gays are, the military has never been nor ever should be the place where social engineering is experimented with.
Now, in the case of the civilian population, I don’t think the GLBT folks should hide who they are, but given all parades and riots surrounding the issue, self-expression doesn’t seem to be one.
In case you haven’t noticed, there are people out there trying to kill us and we need the best advantage we can get.
I could care less how it makes people feel.
stoptheinvasion
The Merck nonsense is enough to make Perry go voteless from me, and I like that term.
Perry is concerned with getting the Hispanic vote, hence the stance on immigration.
Of course, if certain Americans would get up off their butts, turn off American idol and put the cheetos and get a life, you know, have kids and a family, we wouldn’t have these kinds of concerns with immigration.
I have no idea what your situation is at home, and I’m not asking, but more often than naught, the same people who whine about their community getting filled with diversity or immigrants (yes that includes numerous liberals) are the ones who think they can party until they drop dead at 95 and get a pension and social security to boot.
Here’s what he doesn’t get.
He defended executing people on death row. Would that make him heartless?
No, it would mean that his heart was with their victims.
Likewise, it’s not that we who oppose educating the children of illegal alien invaders are heartless. It’s that our hearts are with our country, our culture, our children, and justice.
Bravo!
Glad to make your acquaintance – Hispanic Conservative.
After a lengthy Air Force career, I never could understand why someone who was openly gay (there were people in the AF who didn’t care who knew) wanted to serve. I never saw anyone mistreated, but they never were able to achieve the comraderie and cohesiveness as straight people did. Actually, the ones that I knew were gay did not make the Air Force their career.
FirstSkirt:
Thank you for your illuminating comments, and for your service. How long did you serve?
PALIN/CAIN 2012
I don’t hear Perry talking like a Presidential candidate…he’s stuck in his “Texas World” and can’t seem – as a POLITICIAN! – to shift the answer to a question into the proper NATIONAL framework.
Where’s the “this is what’s right for my state, but as for the Nation as a whole…” talk?!
Where’s the “I may support this for my state but as President, it is more important that…” talk?!?
IT’S NOT THERE. AND, UNTIL IT IS, PERRY IS TOAST.
He’s NOT READY for primetime.
It would be wonderful if Rick Perry won the GOP nomination for President. It will definitely ensure Obama a 2nd term. Perry is running campaigns like it’s 2000 and he thinks he’s GWB. Sorry, but the American people already learned from the other Texas cowboy, GWB.
Conservative Hispanic @95:
All Air Force active duty for 20 years and 30 days – and loved it dearly for a variety of reasons. Looking back, it was the best time I ever had, primarily because I worked among patriots who loved their country, often more than themselves. I saw sacrifice up front, not only by the person serving, but by families and children. It was MY privilege and I am honored to be among them. I also worked with many civilians who kept the faith, love their country, and made many sacrifices.