On Saturday, Rick Perry Forgot Which State He Was In

[babylonsister]

On Saturday, Rick Perry Forgot Which State He Was In

by: Ben Sherman
Mon Aug 05, 2013 at 09:00 AM CDT

Rick Perry spoke this weekend in New Orleans at the RedState conservative conference. RedState is a big deal for right-wingers, who formed it in response to the influential progressive Netroots Nation conference. RedState is where Perry chose to announce his ill-fated candidacy back in the summer of 2011.

This time, Perry managed to immediately remind Republicans why (even) they had to reject him in 2012. Perry, donning new black-rimmed glasses, declared early in his speech, "There are many other states that embrace those conservative values, the approach we've taken over the years. I'm in one today - Florida."

"We're in Louisiana," someone in the audience shouted.

Yikes. Ouch. Ooh. Ahh. Florida is three states away from Louisiana. It's not as though Perry is on the campaign trail these days, constantly in a new state. There's no rational explanation other than what we've known all along: Rick Perry is a dim bulb. His hopes for 2016, when he's repeatedly hinted that he'll run again, are based on the hope that his 2012 campaign didn't reveal anything so bad about himself that he can't win four years later.

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http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13887/oops-on-saturday-rick-perry-forgot-which-state-he-was-in

[corkhead]

1. He makes G.W. Boosh look like an Ivy league graduate

Oh wait...

[tanyev]

2. Oops.

[Xipe Totec]

3. "Shhh! Don't Tell Him!" someone from Florida shouted. nt

[DFW]

4. Oh, come on, people, give the guy break

He knew he wasn't in Texas, and he was pretty sure he wasn't on Mars. Isn't that enough?

[malaise]

5. I swear he lives on painkillers or some other

sedatives. No one is that dumb

[Shampoobra]

13. According to these two authors, painkillers have been a real problem for Perry...

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Circus--Romney-Santorum-Race-ebook/dp/B007JC2942/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1375754478&sr=1-4

From Inside the Circus: Romney, Santorum and the GOP Race by Mike Allen and Evan Thomas:

The most popular role in Campaign 2012 has been a negative one: the Un-Romney.

Virtually every Republican hopeful had his or her moment. Handsome and down-home, Rick Perry had once seemed a natural champion for the Tea Party pitchfork populism that prevailed in American politics on the eve of the primaries. But some knew better: in September, a close ally of Perry’s had remarked to a friend that if Perry were smart, and if they had a couple of months to prepare, then they’d have a shot. The man added, “But he ain’t, and we don’t.”

A bad back doomed any chance Perry stood to break through. It became an open secret that he was using painkillers in sufficient dosages to keep him standing through the two-hour debates. The manager of a rival campaign was at a urinal in an empty bathroom in Hanover, New Hampshire, before the Bloomberg News debate on October 11, when he heard someone come through the door loudly singing “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.” Wondering who was making all the noise, the campaign manager turned his head and saw, to his surprise, the governor of Texas. Perry came down the row of about twenty urinals and stood companionably close by. Nonplussed, the campaign manager made a hasty exit; as the bathroom door closed, he could hear Perry still merrily singing away: “I-I-I’ve been working on the ra-a-i-i-l-road, all-l-l the live-long day  …”

Asked about the episode, a top campaign official said, “He whistles. I wouldn’t read anything into it.”

Perry was going nowhere, but he still had the capacity to hurt Mitt Romney. And in fact, the story of Campaign 2012 thus far is Romney’s perpetual vulnerability as a front-runner—a vulnerability so profound that even a novice national figure like Rick Perry could spook him.

[malaise]

15. Bwaaaaaaaaaah

The railroad would have fired his high as a kite ass.

[hobbit709]

17. He couldn't remember the words to "The Eyes of Texas" so he winged it with original words

to the tune.

[Marrah_G]

6. I'm shocked, he seemed like such a rocket scientist

[Jenoch]

7. All political candidates end up making this gaff at least once.

[babylonsister]

10. Yes, maybe if they visit 2+ states while campaigning.

This guy went to one place and couldn't even get that right.

[Botany]

8. oops

[Thinkingabout]

9. Can't you see him giving his first State of the Union speech, "long live the Russian Union".

[Raine1967]

11. 1) Rick Perry is a doofus. 2) Rick Perry isn't very bright. 3)

Oops.

[n2doc]

12. Like the old joke goes - "Rick Perry is Sooooooo Stupid..(how stupid is he?)...

That when someone told him that we live in the Milky Way... Rick thought it was the candy bar."

[Tx4obama]

14. K&R. And an additional article link below

Rick Perry Goes For 2016 With a Big Speech Where He Forgot What State He Was In

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/08/05/rick-perry-moves-2016-big-speech-forgot-state.html

[hobbit709]

16. JuanitaJean's take on it

http://juanitajean.com/2013/08/05/oh-dear-just-when-he-learned-to-count-to-three/

[Eleanors38]

18. I know the state he was in! Inebriation.

[Blue Owl]

19. Hint: John McCain has a house there

n/t