Can Perry Really be This Dumb?

By Wednesday December 14, 2011

Hours after Saturday’s presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry continued his string of memorable campaign gaffes. CNN Political Ticker reports that Perry campaigned in the Hawkeye State, stopping in Ames. He focused on energy, taking shots at the Obama administration’s handling of government spending. “No greater example of it than this administration sending millions of dollars into the solar industry, and we lost that money,” Perry said. “I want to say it was over $500 million that went to the country Solynda.” Perry was on target with his loan estimate, as the Department Of Energy issued a $535 million guarantee back in 2009. The only problem with his remark: the funding went to an energy company named Solyndra.

I believe JCD is predicting a Romney-Perry ticket, I just don’t see it. Unless of course the Republicans are purposely taking a dive. That I might believe.



77 Comments
  1. Uncle Patso says:
    12/15/2011 at 1:56 pm

    orchidcup:
    “Who else would think of selling our native toll roads to foreign corporations, where money can be sucked out of the local economy and passed around the world?”

    Indiana governor Mitch Daniels.

    Also a Republican, by the way.

  2. msbpodcast says:
    12/15/2011 at 5:10 pm

    Uh what’s happening here? … Might some people on both/either side of the political divide be coming to hold the same opinions about elected representatives as I have?

    Face it, our politicians are equipped with the morals of gutter cats.

    The problem with republics is the same as with monarchies. After a while, the noble intentions at the start are as dead as the noble individuals which founded the kingdom or the republic. (The methods of creation for either are equally bloody.)

    If we want a representative government, we’ll have to create it.

    If we want smaller government, we’ll have to take out the incentives for its growth.

    We’ve become a government
    OF the thousandaires (the 99%)
    BY the millionaires (the 1%)
    FOR the billionaires (the 12,400 individuals identified by the IRS as the people who count (though they don’t really count as they hire some thousandaires to run machines to do that.)

    The first thing we do is change from an elected to a selected form of government.

    Pick names out an eligible citizen pool and they’re stuck with doing the job for one, and only one, four year term.

    There should be no such thing as a career in politics. (The only thing worse than getting stuck with somebody who didn’t want the job is getting stuck with some idiot who did, figuring it was going to lift him a few rungs up the social/economic ladder.)

    Eligibility requirements are:
    • were you born here or are you a naturalized citizen?
    • are you a permanent resident in a village, town or city within our borders?
    • are you above the age of 25?
    • are you healthy enough? (you don’t suffer from any clinical health issue(s) or mental impairment(s) which would prevent you from fulfilling your duties?)
    • have you NEVER served on the government before?
    • have you NEVER been found guilty of a violent crime?
    • have you NEVER been found to be clinically insane?

    Answer yes to all of these questions, you’re eligible for selection.

    Don’t want to be bothered?

    Go live elsewhere!

    That would get rid of all PACs, K Street lobbyists, a lot of graft, waste and expense that WE’RE all paying for.

  3. NewFormatSux says:
    12/15/2011 at 5:35 pm

    Obama’s brilliant speech.
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=omHUsRTYFAU

    ‘Gave him treatment with a breathalyzer..’
    Can Obama really be this dumb?

  4. hyperkineitc says:
    12/15/2011 at 11:23 pm

    I have a question for Prick Perry:

    If $500M for solar is wasted money, what do you call the $1.7 BILLION Bush squandered on ‘The Hydrogen Economy”??


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