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Perry, Energy State Governor Can't Remember He Would Ax Energy Department - Toast!
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-11-10 03:29|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Perry pretty much flamed out once people got a good look at him in action.
Posted by DarthVader 2011-11-10 07:41||   2011-11-10 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes -- we definitely should chose our chief executive the way we'd cast a high school musical.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2011-11-10 09:36||   2011-11-10 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I think they should be borded up in a house for at least a television season and forced to compete in competitions big brother style.

Or how about a bracket-style competition where we pit the two tea-party favorites against each other, and the two inside the beltway candidates and then the winner of the whole thing goes on to the Presidential election.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-11-10 10:19||   2011-11-10 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 I didn't see the debate, I suspect he was probably joking in a deadpan manner here.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-11-10 10:22||   2011-11-10 10:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Perry, by all accounts, has never won a debate. He's also by far the best qualified candidate.
Posted by Iblis 2011-11-10 10:32||   2011-11-10 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 
"How is he at debating?"
"That depends. Can he use his sword?"
Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-11-10 10:38||   2011-11-10 10:38|| Front Page Top

#7 It was no joke. It was a brain fart. Too bad. I still like him.

But then, Newt has been giving some really great answers. Dunno how viable he is with all of his baggage but, wow, he has been extremely sharp in these debates.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2011-11-10 10:40||   2011-11-10 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 He hasn't done well in a single debate. How many chances do you get?

That kind of gaff in a Presidential Debate would be worse than Nixon's sweating. Sudden Death!
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-11-10 10:48||   2011-11-10 10:48|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm still looking forward to Newt as VP. Can't you just see him debating Sheriff Joe?
Posted by Fred 2011-11-10 11:18||   2011-11-10 11:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Best debater = best POTUS?
Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-11-10 11:38||   2011-11-10 11:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Best debater = best POTUS?

Yes, actually. POTUS is not a dictator, (s)he's a cat herder. This is one thing 0bama doesn't understand. Roosevelt and Reagan did. How well they debate indicates how well they can persuade, and thus lead.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-11-10 11:47||   2011-11-10 11:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Best debater = best POTUS?

Not necessarily but it's worrisome when the guy fumbles and stumbles with his answers. I'd still vote for him myself but I'm not your typical voter and I'm afraid that by the time the primaries get to California, Romney will have such a big lead that California won't matter. Now that is really, really worrisome.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2011-11-10 11:56||   2011-11-10 11:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Oh boy, you're f*cked.
Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-11-10 11:57||   2011-11-10 11:57|| Front Page Top

#14 "Oh boy, you're f*cked."

Ain't that the truth.
Posted by Iblis 2011-11-10 12:05||   2011-11-10 12:05|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm still in grief over Pawlenty dropping out and now being left with Romney. He'll get eaten alive in the general when all his flip-flops make a high-light reel on National Television.
Posted by Charles 2011-11-10 12:26||   2011-11-10 12:26|| Front Page Top

#16 Pawlenty seemed like a good candidate. He just didn't get traction. Probably would make a decent Prez.

I saw the debate. It seems that the Pubs got together and figured out that the MSM was going for a food fight feeding frenzy between candidates. That didn't happen. CNBC moderators seemed pissed off that they could not carry the water for Obama. The mods got chewed up by the candidates. The audience cheered during these chew-toy moments. I thought all the candidates did a good job. Perry is not sharp in debates. The debate format does not serve the candidates or voters. Newt is right--go for a Lincoln-Douglas format. I think Newt would eat Obama's lunch in a debate. Obama would have to resort lying to win any points. But what's new? Newt, unfortunately, has the persona of being the know-it-all smartest kid in the class. I don't know whether he could lead or whether he would just end up pissing everyone off. Romney looked good. The moderator tried to get something going between Huntsman and Romney and Romney did not bite.

These debates need to be wrestled from the lame stream media whose only aim is to get Obama re-elected. Let's have an honest debate instead of debates moderated by panels who try for the go-for-the jugular gotcha moments.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-11-10 14:04||   2011-11-10 14:04|| Front Page Top

#17 Ugh. Perry is a caricature of a President. He reminds me more of Will Ferrell pretending to be Bush than anything. He would be an unmitigated disaster; third only to Obama and Carter. I'd vote for him over Obama, but ANY of the other candidates, well maybe except Bachmann, would be vastly superior.
Posted by Chuck Gonque5275 2011-11-10 14:30||   2011-11-10 14:30|| Front Page Top

#18 The debators should have a chosen team that can speak to them using an earphone. Nobody should be expected to know everything and a president is only as good as their chosen team.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-11-10 15:31||   2011-11-10 15:31|| Front Page Top

#19 "I'd vote for him over Obama, but ANY of the other candidates, well maybe except Bachmann, would be vastly superior."

This is just dumb. Romney? Huntsman? Let us not forget that Perry has a track record governing which is the envy of every other candidate.
Posted by Iblis 2011-11-10 15:35||   2011-11-10 15:35|| Front Page Top

#20 Perry has a track record governing

Word.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-10 15:45||   2011-11-10 15:45|| Front Page Top

#21 I'd vote for a cow chip over Obama. Just hoping the GOP doesn't nominate one.
Posted by CincinnatusChili 2011-11-10 15:59||   2011-11-10 15:59|| Front Page Top

#22 So what baggage does Newt have. All I know aboutis his divorce and since his ex wife is still alive and his kid said the story is mostly bunk I'm wondering if there is something else.
Posted by Tyranysaurus Angeng1847 2011-11-10 17:00||   2011-11-10 17:00|| Front Page Top

#23 So what baggage does Newt have

(1) No executive experience.
(2) Stupid in a high IQ way.
(3) Lousy SF author
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-10 17:07||   2011-11-10 17:07|| Front Page Top

#24 All the candidates did much better last night. Perry just cannot keep melting down during debates. It's not going to work.

I feel bad for him.
Posted by newc 2011-11-10 17:20||   2011-11-10 17:20|| Front Page Top

#25 So what baggage does Newt have

Making that stupid global warming commercial w. Nancy Pelosi. Although, he's recently acknowledged it as stupid.

Also, I'm sure there are any number of anonymous accusers out there who have yet to come forward and anonymously accuse him of something unspecific but heinous.
Posted by CincinnatusChili 2011-11-10 17:31||   2011-11-10 17:31|| Front Page Top

#26 I feel bad for him.

Hell, I feel bad for all of us.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-11-10 18:34||   2011-11-10 18:34|| Front Page Top

#27 Newt

(1) No executive experience.

It may not be running a Pizza Company, but four years as Speaker of the House might have at least taught him what he can and cannot get through Guvmint.
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-11-10 18:54||   2011-11-10 18:54|| Front Page Top

#28 #1- unelectable in a General Election™
Posted by Frank G 2011-11-10 21:22||   2011-11-10 21:22|| Front Page Top

#29 Perry was trying to remember three things. He got two of them, the third one didnt bubble up. However, when it comes to anything important like fast and furious, manditory socialist health care, what CHANGE means, Obama, Holder, Janet Nopalitano, Nancy Pelosi will only say, ask the teleprompter, "didn't know anything", got Lady Gaga or 60 seconds of silence instead of the national DHS test message, "we aren't sayin - pass it find out what is in it".

Reckon by those standards Rick is batting 2 out of 3 vs nothing.
Posted by Albemarle Brown7517 2011-11-10 22:54||   2011-11-10 22:54|| Front Page Top

#30 Besides, I would rather vote for a candidate that speaks from his heart and mind imperfectly rather than an empty suite that reads a carefully crafted bunch of lies from a teleprompter.
Posted by Albemarle Brown7517 2011-11-10 23:00||   2011-11-10 23:00|| Front Page Top

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