Candidate (R-TX) Blames Headache for Gaffe

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/10/16/candidate_blames_headache_for_gaffe.html

Candidate Blames Headache for Gaffe


Texas congressional candidate Bill Flores (R) blamed a headache for "a verbal miscue" and has now backed away from comments suggesting he would raise the Social Security retirement age for future recipients, the Dallas Morning News reports.

Flores made the comments in a taped interview earlier this week and later called the program host to ask him "not to air his response on Social Security because he had a headache during the interview and the remarks did not properly characterize his position."

In an email to Politico, Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX) blasted his opponent: "After Bill Flores blamed his position on raising the Social Security age to 70 on a 'headache,' what is next? Is Mr. Flores going to blame his plan to privatize VA health care on a Dairy Queen Hunger-Buster and blame his company's having stuck taxpayers with $7.5 million in unpaid government loans to a case of indigestion?"

[gratuitous]

1. Excellent response by his opponent

This excuse is just bullshit. Flores floated a little trial balloon and found out that unlike his closest friends and advisers, there are quite a number of real people who depend heavily on that damn gummint program. Headache? I hope the voters of Texas give him a chance to take a nice, long rest to get over it, lest Flores do something even worse while in office because he was distracted by a hangnail.

[Oceansaway]

2. wooooohoooooo !!...nt

[sufrommich]

3. Should we elect someone who makes crazy decisions

when he gets a headache?

[MilesColtrane]

4. Glad to know that I donated $ to a candidate who is a fighter.

Go, Chet.