Rick Perry demonstrates we need the Department of Education at debate
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When asked Perry proudly claimed he would eliminate three federal agencies: Education, Commerce and the uh…uh…uh…
This man wants to be President of the United States. I don't think he'd make a good candidate for a Rotary Club.
It astounds me that we are even considering candidates this unfit, this ideologically extreme, this blatantly in favor of corporations over the public, these candidates who tailor their political positions to suit the whims of whoever might vote for them, but this is the 2012 GOP field.
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A candidate for President should know what he or she stands for and wants to say surely?
Have we reached the point where your affiliation, who you align yourself with, matters more to Americans voters than the positions you can actually remember you stand for?
It's not that much to ask that you take the time to discover what your policy positions are, surely? Shouldn't you know your own agenda?
Oops? I can't recall which federal agency I intend to eliminate, but I will see, you just watch me? I mean to say, for God sake, is that the best the GOP can offer us?
Rick Perry has said he believes the American Revolution was fought in the 16th century. He still wants the President to produce his birth certificate. He call's evolution a 'theory that's out there.' He has said that Juarez is the most dangerous city in America and that President Bush did a terrific job defending us from freedom.
If I was a GOP supporter I'd find it hard to even contemplate my options never mind pull the lever for them.
32 comments
Jamcelt | Nov 10, 2011, 12:52 PM EST
This whack-job is a serious candidate for euthanasia. Let's do a 2 fir 1 with Bachmann.
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pndirishandprou | Nov 10, 2011, 12:49 PM EST
pflynn70 are you are a moron, period.
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mayoman | Nov 10, 2011, 12:12 PM EST
pflynn70: You can't defend Perry, so you trash Obama with all that pitiful old Birther crap. Get a life.
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pflynn70 | Nov 10, 2011, 11:58 AM EST
P/S plus the fact that Perry is ALL AMERICAN nothing to hide ( like his birth certificate, his Social Security Card is from Texas where is O's from Conn???
Don't you just love the change we got????????
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pflynn70 | Nov 10, 2011, 11:55 AM EST
Oh I suppose dumb ship President O is the smartest one ever with covering all of our "47" states???? At least Perry does not need a teleprompter to help him, he's on his own take away the the help O gets and see what you have "AN EMPTY DUMB SUIT"!
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pndirishandprou | Nov 10, 2011, 11:42 AM EST
Republican pundit and campaign manager Steve Schmidt came to the conclusion that Perry is finished. Enough said.
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allentown | Nov 10, 2011, 11:32 AM EST
Brain Lock happened to me when giving a speech from memory that had still not been repeated enough to a group of about 200. Your mind goes blank and you keep looking for a spot of orientation in your memory, but it doesn't come.
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patrickesq | Nov 10, 2011, 11:30 AM EST
Mr. Perry's mental lapse-lack of brain power is symbolic of the ideological box our current crop of extreme right wing Republican presidential candidates have made for themselves to cater to the Tea Party ideologues. In their zeal to downsize government and dismantle our federal programs that have had the most positive impact on the lives of Americans, such as Medicare and the Environmental Protection Agency, they reveal the bankruptcy of their ideas and the callousness of their disregard of what is best for the growth of the American economy and the welfare of the American people. Their promotion of corporate interests at the expense of more corporate pollution and destruction of our clean air and environment is a future we do not need.
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jamieLM | Nov 10, 2011, 11:23 AM EST
Must be nice to have never experienced a brain freeze or to have had a slip of the tongue in your entire life. Both of those things have happened to me more than once, but I still managed to get a Master's Degree in Nursing and a B.Sci. degree in molecular genetics. I judge candidates on their political platforms, not on those kind of things.
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John G. Hogan | Nov 10, 2011, 10:18 AM EST
Maybe he could be in the same class with your idol of 57 states fame.
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bunkerisland | Nov 10, 2011, 10:11 AM EST
Rick Perry is a cognitively challenged individual who needs constant guidance through the campaign before he returns to the family estate in retirement.
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CitizenWhy | Nov 10, 2011, 10:03 AM EST
It also needs to be noted that job growth in Texas under Perry has declined in the private sector and grown in the public sector.
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wjb1tex | Nov 10, 2011, 09:54 AM EST
Rick Perry had a brain lock moment just as every other person has at one time or another. His came at a very unfortunate time for him. To write an article talking about how stupid he is does not make you look very smart. You could have written about how it will finally doom his chances which were dwindling anyway. I don't remember seeing your article about how stupid Obama is because he mistakenly said he had visited 57 States. Or was that just a slip of the tounge which also happens to all of us?
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newnation | Nov 10, 2011, 09:54 AM EST
What country even talks about getting rid of education? the nazi's didn't even do that! Monsoonman loves this guy i'd bet.
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