Fallout from Rick Perry's "Debate Performance"

I haven’t watched the debate myself yet of course, but reviews & discussion ranging from the Los Angeles Times to the Huffington Postare painting this in rather dire tones. And yet, the SDMB elections forum is oddly quiet on the subject.

So, anyway. William Kristol doesn’t appear to be any secondhand Kitty Kelly gossip monger here: he watched the debate and talked with all the people they’re writing about in real time. What’s the fallout? From what the video discussed with the source, it sounds like it would be very discouraging to Perry supporters.

Haven’t seen it either, but Bill Maher is talking tonight about how all the sudden Perry is dead in the water. Apparently it all revolves around “having a heart” and allowing the children of illegal immigrants to get some state assistance to attend Texas state schools.

Oh, and as to the SDMB silence… who can stand to watch these things? It’s like watching slime.

Here is a clip of Perry being served up a sweet hanging curveball, rebutting Romney on why Massachusetts healthcare plan was great but Obama’s is unconstitutional. If there is anything that Perry should have prepared and memorized, it is the answer to this question. You can flip forward to 1:20 to see how he handled it.

man, that clip didn’t show Perry in a good light. Was that cherry picked and Perry had some highlights or just the lowlights?

Forgive me, but I’m not going to waste time watching the whole debate. I appreciate good highlights though.

There was another question where he was asked what he would do first if he heard that Pakistan had lost control of it’s nukes to the Taliban. He offered up a word vomit that was even more incomprehensible than the above quote. It was one of those moments where you actually feel bad for him, he was so out of his element.

Perry seems to be admitting he was losing this debate, based on the quote the next day:

Love it.

The only thing missing is the religious angle. If only those poor Mexicans were Christians… one could only hope…

Hypocrisy for the win!

Perry is actually in favor of the kids of illegals getting aid to go to school. Romney attacked him for it and apparently the typically bloodthirsty Republican audience sided with Romney.

I couldn’t bring myself to watch yet another orgy of inane catch phrases, but the clips I’ve seen so far have shown Perry to be almost comically unable to give a coherent response to anything he hasn’t specifically memorized. He reminds me of a teenager who gets called on in class when he hasn’t done the homework. He plasters a sickly grin on his face and stares off into the distance like he’s waiting for the bell to ring and save him. I think he needs a new set of handlers, but it might be too late for that to help him.

It doesn’t matter what he’s in favor for.

If he’s a Republican, then he should not be in favor of dark skinned people receiving any kind of assistance. That’s what conservatism is all about.

As was observed on MSNBC, “like a monkey trying to figure out a locked suitcase.”

I didn’t watch the debate, only saw clips on the news. The one that struck me as the most incoherent was when he tried to do the “for it before I was against it” line on Romney, but he bumbled it so badly that he sounded like an idiot.

One thing I’ve noticed about this guy is that he seems to have a sort of whole-body tick thing going on when he talks sometimes. It’s very unnerving to watch. Anyone else notice this?

Perry is Sarah Palin in drag.

Perry should have had that “Romney’s a flip-flopper” speech queued up and ready to go at the touch of a button. If Perry is no better than that on the most obvious attack line against his main opponent, then Perry deserves to still be Governor of Texas on 01/21/12.

Parry is too stupid to know when he should be embarrassed. Romney was creaming in his magic underwear when Parry was stumbling along.

[del]Wow, stammering aside, Rick Perry won that[/del]–nope, two drunks fighting.

Really? Our frontrunners are Willard Layoffs and Pray-for-Rain? Herman Cain is going to take this after all!

Don[t forget poor whites. No help for them either.

I’m reminded of an old Monty Python skit. Some commission is looking at designs for a public housing project, and these two guys show up and start up with, “Inside the entry, people are drawn into the rotating blades, and there’s a trough here to carry off the blood…”, and it’s immediately clear they’ve designed a slaughterhouse for the poor.

The difference being that in the Monty Python sketch, it wasn’t their original intent. With some of today’s conservatives, you can’t be so certain.

(Okay, that’s probably an overstatement. But with some of them I definitely get the feeling that they share Ebeneezer Scrooge’s opinion of the “surplus population.”)

Remind me again; how’d that work out the last time you tried it?

Holy fuck you’re retarded.