The Rick Perry Thread

[ashstralia]

i see. i hope you had a good time in our little part of the world, PB. if i wasn't 1100 km away, i'd have come and had a beer with ya.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

twas great. didn't see grant and he was 11km away

[Nickdfresh]

That would be redundant. He's doing a fine job of destroying his own political career without anyones assistance.

Yeah, whether one is an ardent Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative--no one likes a guy who pisses all over himself at a debate the minute he faces a bit of political adversity from bland shitheads posing as contenders trying to take him down...

[Tob]

political adversity from bland shitheads

What's "bland" is when "shitheads" go behind the back, in sleep or work, being, with truth, "cowards" - "U.S." force, that is what it does, countries they've invaded, too..

[Terry]

What's sad is that most people in the Republican party are not happy with the choices so far........

They practically begged Chris Christie to run and he just announced he's not.

Perry doesn't have a hope in hell of winning. Mitt will get destroyed by Obama in the debates.

WTF happened to the Republican party? It's nothing but a freak show.

None of the declared GOP candidates...I mean, it IS a fucking freak show!

Perry is a dumbass. Michelle is a loon. Herman Cain getting the GOP nomination? Yeah, right.

Huntsman will drop out soon enough. Paul has some interesting ideas, but he's starting to look as doddering as McCain did in the closing months of the 2008 race. You had nutbags like Palin and Trump wandering around the periphery...Mittens can't close the deal; people sense he's full of shit, wants nothing but the prize but hasn't been able to get the nomination in...what...two other attempts?

Now Christie, the one many sensible establishment republicans were hoping would run has said no thanks.

Talk about fucked before even getting to the starting line.

[Little Texan]

Link

Rick Perry may skip some debates

By Kim Geiger Washington Bureau

October 27, 2011, 7:37 a.m.
After a series of poor debate performances in the early months of his presidential campaign, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is backing off the upcoming GOP debate schedule, committing to just one of the next three events between now and Nov. 15.

Perry has struggled in the five debates he has attended since he joined the race in mid-August. At one, he fumbled an attempt to cast rival Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper. At another, bickering between Romney and Perry drew criticism that the candidates were acting juvenile.

Perry hinted at his frustration with the debates earlier this week when he told Fox News that participating in them was a “mistake.”

“These debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates,” Perry said. “…All they’re interested in is stirring it up between the candidates.”

Perry knows the debate format is not his best venue. He recently made light of his shaky performances in a speech to the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition.

“We are not called to be perfect,” Perry said when he addressed the gathering of social conservatives last weekend. “If any of you have watched my debate performances over the last three or four times, you know I am not perfect.”

Perry campaign manager Ray Sullivan said Wednesday night that the debates keep candidates from interacting more effectively with voters.

“When you’ve got eight or nine candidates and 30 seconds to a minute, it takes valuable time away from campaigning in Iowa as those elections approach,” Sullivan said in an interview with CNN. “…There are, I think, 18 more in the planning phases. There’s no way that the candidates can do all those debates.”

Sullivan said the Perry campaign was “examining the opportunities and the opportunity cost” of each debate. Perry has committed to just one future debate – a CNBC debate in Michigan on Nov. 9.


So, Prick is going to utilize the same strategy he did in Texas every time he ran for governor...puss out on the debates. It might have worked in Texas for the governor races, but it's not going to work in the Presidential race. Being the piss poor debater he is, he shouldn't have entered the race to begin with. You can't skip the debates when the field is narrowed down to two (not that he's going to make it that far).

[jhale667]

Best quote on (p)Rick's new strategy I heard so far was "Y'know, when people are accusing you of 'not being ready for prime-time' the correct response is to go turn in some stellar performances to change their opinion. It is NOT to avoid all debate appearances and scrutiny, thus PROVING their accusation!"

[hambon4lif]

“These debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates,” Perry said. “…All they’re interested in is stirring it up between the candidates.”

riiiiiight

[Kristy]

The "magnet" isn't jobs - it's escapism to a better quality of life from living in immense poverty. Until BOTH the US and Mexico address that, Perry is just another grandstanding asshat.

[Seshmeister]

He started blinking there like a little boy in the school yard who is going to burst into tears.

Fucking hell America is this the best you have?

[Satan]

SATAN 2012- Aren't you tired of the "lesser evil"?

[Nickdfresh]

He started blinking there like a little boy in the school yard who is going to burst into tears.

Fucking hell America is this the best you have?

It's sort of funny when the tough-talking, "kill-all-the-criminals" right wing guys turn out to be immense pussy-bitches...

[hambon4lif]

SATAN 2012- Aren't you tired of the "lesser evil"?

Fuckinay! You've got my vote.

Cut out all the middlemen, indeed!

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Tell me this dumbass ain't drunk as fuck....

[jhale667]

Dude is hopped up on something, or it's his new comedy routine...