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My Rick Perry Moments
I know just how Rick Perry felt during his “brain freeze” the other night.
As other GOP candidates were spewing out new versions of their non-sequiturs about Barack Obama and the economy, my eyes were drawn to the Texas governor every time the cameras showed him in a shot.
A curious combination of expressions fleeted across his face, some of earnest determination to follow what another candidate was saying, at other times a kind of glazed look as if he were watching a foreign movie without subtitles.
I was having the same kinds of reactions to the point of turning down the sound and settling for a kind of pantomime display of the looniness we had all heard dozens of times before.
At one point, I was startled into wakefulness when Ron Paul made a valid point about retirees subsidizing the big banks, by getting no returns on their savings while the institutions kept profiting on them with no risk.
But that moment was an aberration. None of the other candidates wanted to talk about the real world, only the theme park called Obama World they have been constructing on Cable TV all year.
Little wonder that Perry would lose the thread of his prepared sound bites and forget the third federal agency he was promising to eliminate.
The Gaffe Police have now decided that the Texas governor has exceeded the speed limit and are now flagging him down from the race, but my sympathy is with him.
4 Responses to “My Rick Perry Moments”
A curious combination of expressions fleeted across his face, some of earnest determination to follow what another candidate was saying, at other times a kind of glazed look as if he were watching a foreign movie without subtitles.
LOL
Rick Perry is just not into this President stuff. He’s more inclined to fall sleep in that chair in the oval office than actually work on something. Me too, but hey you get to fly around in your own Boeing 747.
C’mon Rick, do you really want to be in the media fish bowl for four years? To heck with all this crap lets go have a beer.
“I stepped in it, man.”
Man, I’d surely dislike hearing that from a surgeon in the hospital where I was currently being admitted.
In this game, you have to be able to fake sincerity from the heart. Take lessons from Herman Cain.
Ain’t it the truth?