Do you think Rick Perry...

[WI_DEM]

has started wearing glasses lately during interviews in an attempt to look more intelligent?



If so, it's not working.

[hobbit709]

1. More intelligent than what?

He could be outwitted by a potted plant.

In fact slime mold has more intellectual capacity.

[awake]

2. I do not see your point, oh wait I did not have my glasses on now I get it

Duh - a Republican improving on his image not his knowledge who would have thought this would happen.

[YarnAddict]

3. Nah,

just part of the aging process. Don't read too much into it.

[Thinkingabout]

4. He is actually using them as blinders so he does ot have to see the world around him.

Lie having the state with the most uninsured people and still refuses to expand Medicaid. He is able to overlook the border has had an overflow since before he became governor in 2001 after serving as Lt. Governor. He is bad for Texas and he will be bad for the USA.

[Brother Buzz]

5. I can't help but think he is trying to channel Barry Goldwater

[blogslut]

6. Of course.

Rick Perry is not a bright man. Dubya looks like the king of Mensa compared to Goodhair.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

7. No, I think he probably has vision problems associated with aging, as I do. Besides,

he's not smart enough to come up with a scheme like that. And, he looks goofy with or without the glasses because he is Goofy. And Daffy.

[Texasgal]

8. He's trying to appear

more "hip" for the younger people... he's still stupid and will always be stupid.

[hamsterjill]

9. Yes, I think it has been a calulated move on his part.

I think he's just DUMB enough to think he can fool people, too.

[seabeyond]

10. when you age, people who use to not need glasses, need glasses. nt

[LoisB]

14. I think generally for reading though. Everyone I know who never needed glasses

still don't need glasses except for reading.

[seabeyond]

15. i do not believe that is true, though i do not know tons on this. i had better than 20/20, whatever

that was. not only did i need reading glasses, distance became blurred and i have glasses for distance for clarity. i can see without them, but i get a sharpness adn clarity with glasses. i didnt even realize until i tried a friends glasses and i realized how much clarity i had lost.

[tammywammy]

16. And it's been at least the last year he's been wearing them.

It hasn't just been within the last month.

Also people who used to wear contacts get tired of them and go back to glasses. I think most people I work with forget I wear glasses until allergy season when I wear them instead of contacts once in a whole.

[seabeyond]

18. hubby and boys do contacts. i never needed that, so i have learned a lot, but thru their

experience. and yes. they grab glasses for different occasions.

[BillZBubb]

11. Everything Perry does has a political or personal profit motive.

I have no doubt the glasses are part of Perry's handlers attempt to re-invent him for his presidential run.

[Journeyman]

12. I think of Rick Perry as seldom as possible, and never do I think of him as intelligent. . . .

Glasses = weak eyes. That's all.

[TexasProgresive]

13. They're Google glass

intended to prevent Goodhair from forgetting the 3rd thing.

[Stallion]

20. Darn Beat Me To It

...but I thought they were to read the handwriting on the inside of his hand listing 3 branches of government he'd like to end

[CBGLuthier]

17. No it's so we will think he is Superman in disguise.

Bizzaro Superman that is. Note the uncanny resemblance.

[Malraiders]

19. Glasses will only make him appear smarter if they also have a gag attached to stop his talking. n/t

[Wounded Bear]

21. I think...

I'm pretty sure he doesn't.