This guy is just painfully ignorant. Rick Perry needs to jump back in the limo and ride right on out of town. I can understand misspeaking but his lack of understanding cause and effect simply illustrates he is not capable of running for the presidency. I wouldn’t even want him on the Board of Supervisors.
Most of us can forgive getting centuries mixed up. That’s an easy mistake to make, especially when you are tired. But to apply such foolishness as a cause of the Revolutionary War just illustrates that he needs to go back to Texas and enroll in a couple of history courses. Until then, he just shouldn’t discuss history.
One can only do BS for so long. Then it should start to hurt.
Ummm…..what did he say?
I missed it but FIL said that Perry said the Revolutionary War was fought in the 16th Century…
Perry is a Democrat. What do you expect? 😉
Perry needs to better understand the history of our 57-or-so states (give or take a few).
Mitt Romney, Liberal
In the Post/Bloomberg debate, Romney shows his liberal side.
By William Saletan|Posted Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, at 9:37 AM ET
3. Health insurance. After the other candidates took shots at Obamacare, Romney weighed in:
I’m proud of the fact that I’ve put together a plan that says what I’m going to replace it with. And I think it’s incumbent on everybody around this table to put together a plan that says this is what I’ll replace it with, because the American people are not satisfied with the status quo. They want us to solve the problem of health care, to get it to work like a market, and that’s what has to happen.
Later, when Rick Perry accused Romney of driving up insurance premiums, Romney replied:
I’m proud of the fact that we took on a major problem in my state. And the problem was that we had a lot of kids without insurance, a lot of adults without insurance, but it added up to about 8 percent of our population. And we said, you know what, we want to find a way to get those folks insured, but we don’t want to change anything for the 92 percent of the people that already have insurance. … We have the lowest number of kids as a percentage uninsured of any state in America. You (Perry) have the highest. … We have less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You have a million kids uninsured in Texas. A million kids. Under President Bush, the percentage uninsured went down. Under your leadership, it’s gone up. I care about people.
I care about people? That sounds like what Perry said about immigration: that anyone who opposed his policy of in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants working toward citizenship didn’t “have a heart.” Equating subsidies with compassion is a common Democratic habit. Free-market conservatives find it galling. But Romney, like Perry, seems to have acquired it. And unlike Perry, he thinks the government must “replace” Obamacare with something that will “solve the problem of health care.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2011/10/mitt_romney_liberal_on_taxes_health_care_trade_and_bailouts_he_s.html?wpisrc=xs_wp_0001
I greatly admire Governor Perry’s stand on immigration. It takes courage to stand up to the anti-immigrant wing of his party.
I agree. Perry runs his mouth far too much. It’s better to leave people in doubt about your stupidity by keeping your mouth shut than to speak and remove all doubt. This comment is almost as dumb as some of the stuff Biden has said. Also, as SP mentions, he might want to brush up on the 57 states (as stated by Obama).
I don’t believe that Perry thinks that the Revolutionary War was in the 16th century. I believe that he’s just not a great oratory. This is just petty.
Everyone misspeaks and that has been addressed in the content of the post, if anyone bothered to read it. Some folks are worse than others about gaffes. I notice no one mentioned my favorite, Dan Quayle. I can’t think of any president or vice president that doesn’t have a whole book of gaffes. It is going to happen in an age where twitter and email make shots heard round the world instantaneous.
I can see that the Republicans had to get petty about the 57 states. Would you like for me to do a post on it? Would it somehow manage to validate your positions? Is it Rick Perry you are defending or just anything Republican, breathing or not?
I believe the main premise here is his total lack of understanding about the Revolutionary War, not that he confused the centuries. It is important to understand cause and effect and main idea far more than it is to memorize dates. Rick Perry is limited in scope as is Sarah Palin. Who doesn’t know what periodicals they read, for example? That isn’t a gotcha. That is a problem!
Contrast those two to Bachmann and Santorum, both of whom I violently disagree with as far as policy goes. However, I don’t think either is limited in scope and ability. I just plain old disagree with them. There is a huge difference.
@Moon-howler
Moon, agreed that everyone makes a gaffe sometimes. I admit it myself, but decline to provide examples. Perry and Palin more than most. Biden in the same category. I’ll even accept that Obama’s “visted all 57 states” comment was made when he was very tired from campaigning and that he actually did know at the time how many states are in the union, even though it was funny. Maybe he had just eaten a steak dinner with Heinz 57 sauce – who knows?
Some, whom the media like to portray as geniuses, belong in that gaffe-prone boat also. I’m thinking of Al Gore. I remember watching C-SPAN back in the early 90s (yes, I’ve been dull most of my life) between the 1992 election and when Clinton/Gore were inaugurated. Gore was taking a tour of Monticello. The camera caught Gore referring to some busts and asking who they were. The guide replied, Washington, Jefferson, etc., etc. Never saw that clip replayed ever again. Had it been Dan Quayle saying/asking exactly the same thing, we would have seen it over and over again, and it would be on the YouTube highlights reel.
Gore got to where he is because he comes from a wealthy, political family and looked good as a local TV anchor (his job before going into politics). Bill Clinton is a genuinely highly intelligent man, even if he used poor judgment on some occasions. The media back then tried to create the image that both were on the same intellectual level, and succeeded for the most part. We never heard Gore’s gaffes like we did Qualye’s. We constantly heard Gore reading statements written by someone else (a throwback to his local TV news anchor days) that made him appear intelligent.
The media have great power to shape someone’s image, making them appear much smarter or dumber than they really are. Bachmann is a good example. She is very intelligent, but sometimes says dopey things. When she does, we hear them repeatedly rather than her more well-thought out remarks. That Gore clip would be more prominent today with so many people having their own hi-res digital cameras, and people constantly recording everything on public affairs programming.
Is this where I laugh uproariously and ask if there is a certain person you left out in your memories in your desire to point out twisted tongue or just plain stupid Democrats? Hmmmm…let’s seeeeeeee……W…… hint hint hint. 🙄
I would have probably gone after monotone Joe if I wanted to talk smack about a Democrat in a VP position or wanna be position.
If I were going to go after a person who often stuck feet in their mouth from the Democrat side I would probably make a beeline to Johnson or Harry Truman.
57 states – the beauty of sound bites. Go and look at the clip when the statement was made, and you can see how the statement was misspoken.
Perry misspoke – he knew what he was talking about.
I am not so sure he got the cause and effect correct. It sounded very much like babble to me. It is very easy to get centuries mixed up.
I think Perry has some limitations.
Meanwhile, Biden’s telling folks that rapes and murders will increase if Congress doesn’t pass the jobs bill. Almost as ignorant!
Please provide a context for these remarks and documentation, if it exists.
@Moon-howler
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46844
Ah so it wasn’t a direct quote. Actually I agree with Biden. There is a direct correlation between violent crime and the number of officers in a jurisdiction. Expect the crime to go up if jurisdictions cannot afford adequate police force. Thanks for providing. After watching, I feel like we can have a discussion. What would your response be to that video?
No argument there.
Ah, but it’s a local decision what to fund and what not to fund. It is not the federal government’s job to fund local police. Of course, we’re talking about Flint, MI……so anything goes in that place. Biden is going WAAAY too far with that line. Linking increased crime with fewer police officers, no problem. Linking no officers with passing a turd of a spending bill? Sorry, we’re not that stupid.
Jurisdictions can apply for the cop money. I don’t see what your gripe is with what he said. It sounds like a good jobs bill to me. On that we can disagree. All sorts of localities are cutting back on law enforcement because of budget shortfalls. Passing the bill would provide corrective measures for this phenomena.
Tell more about Perry, his wife, and his religious sword. I caught a snippet and nothing more.
Poor Perry, not his wife is fighting for him, and he’s falling on his religious sword. Ugh.
@Moon-howler
I like Harry Truman – he’s one of my favorite Democrats. I don’t agree with everything he did, such as trying to nationalize some industries. But, the Supreme Court shot him down on that and he accepted the rule of law. Didn’t whine and try to find a way around the law to do what he wanted as some have tried in more recent history.
Had it not been for Truman, Churchill and others standing up to Soviet expansionism, we might be speaking Russian today.
I don’t like LBJ. He expanded government far too much, and pursued both an expensive war and huge growth in domestic programs without paying for it, which led to our economic problems of the 70s. Yes, I know Bush, Jr. did much of the same, but you don’t hear me sounding the praises of George W.
Of course, whenever the Feds say that THEY are going to give money so a locality can hire cops, etc, they never publicize that the money is TEMPORARY, leaving the locality holding the bag down the line for increased costs and unable to pay.
@Cargosquid Which is why so much of the “stimulus” money was a joke and should have been rejected by governors.
I heard some good ones this morning. “Rick Perry studies for a urine test” and “Blond girls tell Rick Perry jokes”.
Mrs. Perry is just getting out in front of her husband saying “the media has slaughtered my husband because of his religious beliefs”….blah, blah, blah. I feel bad for the guy….it’s as if the world was a tuxedo and he’s a brown pair of shoes.
@pokie, I feel sort of bad for him too. I saw his wifem finally. She did not serve him well. She tried to throw the victimi table cloth over him.