Perry blames poor debate performance on health issues
From the Daily Beast:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, still looking to regain his traction after a series of mind-numbing debate performances (oh, and an awful job as governor), has let the world and Iowa know that he “wasn’t on his game” recently (make that the last four months) because of a serious back surgery he had undergone over the summer. The surgery had by his report wiped him out. “But no excuses,” he added, making as forceful an excuse as he could.
Finally, the truth is out. I don’t make a habit of tooting my own horn in this space, but–just this one time–I first raised the health issue as the reason for Perry’s poor debate performances back in October. I blogged about this after the one of the early debates, how Perry looked uncomfortable, twisting his torso and struggling with his posture and seeming to lose energy as the debate went on. I wrote that Perry was off his game and attributed his problems to his back operation and noted that he had started wearing orthopedic shoes instead of boots. (My post was picked up the next day in the “Political Wire” blog.) What the Daily Beast article omits is that the surgery, a spinal fusion, was not a standard operation; it involved the application of Perry’s own adult stem cells to the affected area–a procedure that is not covered by insurance, nor is it approved by the FDA. It borders on quackery. The question of how Perry is going to pay for the operation has not been answered; a spokesman said at the time that the Perry’s would pay for whatever is not covered by insurance. Well, NOTHING is covered by insurance. So, who paid for the operation? Where are the medical bills? It had to be very expensive.
In November, the issue of Perry’s surgery came before the Texas Medical Board. From the Associated Press:
The experimental stem cell procedure that Texas Gov. Rick Perry underwent this summer could be restricted or even blocked under new rules being considered Friday by the state’s Medical Board.
Some top scientists are questioning the safety and wisdom of the procedure, and doctors say it may run up against federal rules. It also carries potential health threats, ranging from blood clots to increased cancer risk.
The Republican presidential candidate had stem cells taken from fat in his own body, which were then grown in a lab. They were injected into Perry’s back and his bloodstream during an operation in July to fuse part of his spine.
The Perry campaign has repeatedly denied that there is anything wrong with their candidate’s health. They weren’t telling the truth, and they only started telling the truth when Perry finally had a good debate performance in Iowa. No doubt the Perry campaign would like to go back and rewrite history, but it’s too late.
Governor Toolshed says:
Perry had a good debate performance?
Wow.
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The House does it again! says:
Health issues? Then I guess he’s not healthy enough to be President…or perhaps Governor.
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Gov Stem Cell says:
Would Perry be crazy enough to resort to a risky medical stunt involving adult stem cells in the hopes of bolstering his “scientific” bona fides among evangelicals? In other words, was Perry willing to put his spine (and money) where is mouth is and claim adult stem cells are a sufficient treatment and thereby block further research on embryonic stem cells, should he become President?
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
Regardless of the back surgery (whether conventional or non-conventional), Perry is an idiot who not only has no business running for President, he had no business being this State’s top elected official for the last eleven years. He is a poster child for term limits.
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Jeff Crosby says:
Gee, his back hurt. Did the sun get in his eyes too?
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Goo says:
With everything going on with redistricting, filing deadlines, and primary dates, I was looking forward to Burka opining. Instead, another write-up about Perry that isn’t even all that newsworthy. Sigh.
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Anonymous Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 10:20 am
Could not have said it better myself Goo. Burka had to toot his own horn about something that most everyone who follows Perry figured out months ago.
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Cowboy Bill Weed Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Well, Burka did nail it. I think the real point of the blog is how Perrys camp denied any problems with his back until it could be spun as an excuse…..
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C'mon Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 11:20 am
One more in agreement with Goo. Really, this is the best you can give us, Paul?
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Robert Morrow says:
How do we know the surgery and painkillers did not so zonk Perry out that he was able, floating out of his normal element, to have a moderately credible debate performance?
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Anonymous says:
The first thing a fielder does when he drops a routine pop fly ball is look at his glove.
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Amazed says:
Yeah this post does not really interest me.
What interests me more is the fact that the Stateman ran a ‘back story’ last weekend on the annual christmas cards of a certain lobbyist.
I am amazed at what having a publicist can do.
The most ironical part of the article was the quote.
“You have be honest. You have to have a sense of perspective.”
I couldn’t agree more………
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Reminder Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Agreed! That was completely nutty. Everyone at the Capitol is having a ton of laughs over it!
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Old Charlie says:
Perhaps Perry’s advisers decided that Paul’s opining about Rick’s health was a good excuse and used it.
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donuthin Reply:
December 14th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
very probable
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C'mon Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 11:21 am
Extremely probable. Paul’s guess had been picked up by other media outlets, so why not?
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jpt51 says:
It wouldn’t surprise me if Red McCombs paid the doctor bill. After all, at Ricks request, the Texas taxpayers are giving Red a $250 million gift over the next ten years. I’ll bet $10,000 Formula 1 doesn’t last the decade.
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harlow Reply:
December 14th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
F1 is already over…What we are seeing now is how rich people pull-out….
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Set You Free says:
Perry’s people didn’t tell the truth.
Hmmm.
Stop the presses.
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anon says:
So we’re supposed to elect this man POTUS? A person with such poor judgment to have an experimental surgery right before embarking on a national campaign? Why would anyone trust our country to this clown.
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anon says:
Paul:
what would be interesting to know is there was any communication between the TMB and the gov’s office about pulling down the proposed rules dealin with the stem cell treatment.
open records request? journalism?
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Hamburglar says:
Whatever you say about Perry, there is a certain roguish charm to him having some risky spinal fusion procedure that runs on the edges of accepted medical practice.
It’s kind of like those thrill-seekers who hit the road and get cheaper face lifts in Mexico or the brave soul who let someone inject fix-a-flat into their buttocks for a curvier figure.
Overall, a US Presidential candidate who seeks risky medical procedures on the edge of accepted medicine is proving they’re not afraid to take chances.
It could be a point in Perry’s favour among the much sought-after vote from “risky medical procedure enthusiasts” out there who also vote in Republican primaries.
Let’s wait and see what George Will says about it…
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Anonymous Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 10:28 am
Can you tell me a medical procedure that involves general anesthesia that isn’t risky? The “risks” associated with what Perry had done sound like the risks of countless procedures the FDA already approves of. Back surgery is risky, whether the omnipotent FDA likes the procedure or not. Heaven forbid the FDA not approve, God knows they’ve never been wrong. Try having a loved one withering away with cancer while the FDA sits on approval of a life saving drug. The fact the FDA doesn’t approve of the procedure speaks volumes. Perry isn’t quite as dumb as I thought.
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Barry Jagoda says:
Paul,
Congratulations on being way ahead on the Perry back illness story and on a superior job across the board on this candidacy. (We’ll forget that you had earlier invested Governor Perry with the GOP nomination and be thankful that you, in this one case, were wrong.)
Bj
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Jason says:
Welcome back, Paul- we missed you! You know, it would be nice to give us a heads-up before you go AWOL for a week!
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Bodhisattva Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 9:28 am
D’accord!
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The Mustache That Dare Not Speak Its Name says:
I am happy to see that Paul is back. And it’s time for my weekly shampooing and brushing. I’m not suggesting the two are related, however.
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donuthin says:
your post is terribly unfair to gays.
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emptyk says:
Mr. Morrow has just libeled several people here. He has accused President Clinton and others of murder. I suspect that you enjoy Morrow’s delusional ravings as they demonstrate his pathological problems, but please Burka, take this down, it is not just delusional, it is criminal.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 14th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Whiner.
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Alan says:
The Perry/Gingrich ticket is looking stronger than ever! You dumb liberals need to wake up and realize America isn’t buying what Obama is selling!
Oops, thought I was JohnBernardBrooks for a second. Must have been those painkillers I took a couple of hours ago.
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Garvin Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Funny.
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John Johnson says:
Robert…I think you know that I am not a Perry supporter in any sense of the word, but I wanted to let you know that I think you are going overboard with your posts here.
Craigs list…a jogger… a policeman…hotel desk managers. Where are these people? What are their names? Where are their interviews? Are they now all dead?
What if someone posted here that a policeman in Westlake told them that he caught Robert Morrow giving a guy a ride in a parked SUV out at Lake Grapevine…or that you were caught drunk and sharing a stall at the Alabama-LSU game with a young college boy?
Your first squeal would be, that’s b.s…where’s the proof? Who said it?
Well…where’s the proof Robert? We don’t want heresay, or unproven statements from some third party mystery man. Where’s the proof? Please lay off this type of stuff unless and until you come up with some. It grows old and really paints an unflattering picture of you.
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John Johnson Reply:
December 14th, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Your “proof” is…”I have heard many, many other stories…” It is sad that you insist on spreading this trash without anything more than hearsay, and not one person out of all of these who have supposedly witnessed nefarious actions are willing to put on a disguise and have their voice electonically altered by a credible news organization….even after a million bucks has been offered to them for doing so. Why don’t you go try and collect.
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Bodhisattva Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 9:30 am
Aren’t you really asking, where’s the poof?
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Alan says:
On a more serious note, Perry is beginning a grueling eleventh-hour slog through Iowa and is even planning campaign events for New Year’s Eve. I can’t see what good this is going to do – voters don’t want to deal with politics during the second half of December and the only people who will likely turn out for these press-the-flesh events are the few Iowa voters who already like or are receptive to Perry. Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum are trying similar futile last-ditch efforts and at this point I think Bachmann is the only one with any chance of it making a difference, particularly if she performs well in tomorrow night’s debate.
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Texas Ex says:
Mr. Burka,
You toot your own horn insufficiently.
You give yourself credit for being the first to link Perry’s disastrous debate performances and his back surgery (which was a health care procedure undoubtedly unavailable to the 99%). It is true you were the first.
But you give yourself too little credit.
In all probability, you were not just the first to suggest this link, you were most likely the inventor of this explanation. Your explanation is totally plausible (which is why it occurred to you in the first place and also why it is so well suited to the Perry campaign’s use), but it seems more likely to be a convenient excuse rather than a true explanation. If it were the real explanation, one would expect we would have heard this explanation often and loudly long before now.
Why would the Perry campaign adopt the excuse that you speculated about if it were not true? Think of the debate failure explanations discussed in the media:
(1) Perry is not smart,
(2) Perry is ill prepared, or
(3) Perry was still recovering from surgery.
The third explanation (which you were the first to offer) is – by far – the most sympathetic to Perry. How could the campaign possibly resist adopting your proposed excuse? It is too good to leave alone.
The only real question is why the Perry campaign waited so long to spin the debates in this fashion. If your too-generous-by-half explanation were true, you have to imagine even a hit-and-miss campaign would have stumbled across this truth sooner.
PS – I don’t wish this to be misconstrued as implying that you were spinning anything on anyone’s behalf; I think you were just speculating in a wholly plausible fashion, but I think your speculation was probably more generous to Perry than the actual facts known only to those inside the campaign.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 14th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Yeah, maybe Burka is the inventor of this handy explanation and he should get royalties from the Perrybots everytime it is used. Beats everyone else’s explanation of stupidity, alcohol, cocaine, speed, anti-depressants, etc…
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TexianPolitico Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 8:05 am
Two famous quotes apply here – “There you go again.” and “Have you no sense of decency, Sir?”
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Anonymous Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 9:33 am
Morrow, if Perry is using cocaine then you need to site your source. That is a major claim and you shouldn’t use it so lightly without real, credible sources (not some dancer who will say anthing for 100 bucks). By all means, if you have the source – let everyone know – we in Texas need to know because he is our governor.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 1:45 pm
In 2009, a popular stripper told me – while we were just chit chatting and not talking about presidential or gubernatorial races – that a member of Rick Perry’s entourage paid her $500 to leave a local Austin strip club with them.
After she and the Perrybot got outside, Rick Perry was waiting for her in a limo. She got in and started to play around with him and here were her words to me exactly — “I think he was too coked up” to get it up, to perform sexually.
That is your fruity, religious right, Ted Haggard copying governor of Texas in action.
“Too coked up” to perform sexually. Beautiful.
This summer in August, after I ran my ad, I was contacted by someone who was friends with Rick Perry’s coke dealer. This person is a well known coke dealer in Austin who operates out of one gay bars – Charlies, in fact. Her friend had told her “I am Rick Perry’s coke dealer.”
And then 2 days ago, I got a call from someone who knew one of Anita’s divorce attorneys. This person used to date a stripper in Houston years ago. She told him Perry was mining the strip club for girls and that the cocaine flowed free whenever Perry was around. This was back when Perry was Lt. Governor.
Apparently, Perry has been behaving this way all over the state of Texas: Austin, San Antonio, Houston. Really, he has probably been doing this nationwide … for a long time.
And by the way, that original dancer. $100? Really? Rick Perry paid her a whopping FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS for a little backseat limo play time. That is ridiculous amount of money.
You would have to be completelely coked up or just plain stupid to pay that kind of money.
And in Rick Perry’s case … I think it was both!
JohnBernardBooks says:
Perry had back surgery and it was obvious it bothered him. But unlike liberal democrats he didn’t ask for a sick day or whine about being a victim. He manned up and toughed it out, and is getting stronger evryday.
The Perry/Gingrich ticket is looking stronger. When is the first Gingrich/Biden debate?
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Jerry Only Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
hes been whining about being a victim ever since he put out the ad suggesting he was persecuted for his christian beliefs.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
quit whining and watch, you’ll learn something, maybe.
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Tom says:
Well, Perry was certainly on some kind of strong medication the night he was making love to a bottle of syrup in New Hampshire. Has he given an explanation for that event?
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Garvin Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
It was a GAY bottle of Syrup, too!
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Robert Morrow says:
Ron Paul on the verge of possibly WINNING the Iowa Caucuses and what is the headline of the Austin American Spaceman?
“Perry seeks to win back support, a few voters at a time”
Yep, the key word is a FEW voters at a time. American-Spaceman trying to win back a FEW readers at a time.
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Longhornfan Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 1:45 am
Ron Paul winning Iowa is the best possible thing that could happen for Romney. Truth in advertising, I’m holding out for Jon Huntsman. After all, didn’t President Huckabee win Iowa the last time out?
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TexianPolitico Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 8:09 am
Charlie Sheen just endorsed Ron Paul and said he is, “Winning.” I’m sure that endorsement will help. There is now talk that Sheen and Alex Jones will join Paul on a bus tour of Iowa after Christmas. I hope C-SPAN covers that circus.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Hey, Texian, are you going to leave the RLC and join up with the Libertarians now that your candidate Gary Johnson has?
Actually, if Ron Paul is not nominated by the GOP, I hope he will run Libertarian or 3rd party.
The Republican party …. Losing!
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Robert Morrow says:
Rick Perry: “If you cheat on your wife, you’ll cheat on your business partner.”
It also means you will cheat on people politically.
Rick Perry warns Iowa voters of a “war on our values.”
What values do you think he is referring to?
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Longhornfan says:
As a pathologist of almost 30 years, I can assure you that there are no true stem cells in adipose tissue. Adipose cells, fibroblasts, smooth muscle, meandering inflammatory cells, and endothelial cells to be sure. But NO stem cells.
BTW, was Prick Perry’s charlatan surgeon a product of the Aggy med school or one of its residency programs? Or was he/she referred to him by his faith healer friends in the evangelical movement?
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Stem cell guru Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 6:22 am
You should go back and do some research. Stem cells, particularly mesenchymal are found in large numbers in adipose tissue. I wouldn’t say you are a pathologist because you’re giving them a bad name.
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Nortel Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 11:53 am
For crying out loud Burka–can you strike these type of comments?? Where is your line? Calling the Governor a Prick is completely over the top. Disagree with him, call him incompetent, hell, even hate him for all I care, but to call elected officials by such names lowers this blog. Have the slightest bit of self-respect people–I assume everyone here is out of high school by this point.
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No Le Hace Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Longhorn…before you bad mouth Med schools that aren’t UTs, remember its a UT school that’s losing it’s accrediitation.
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jpt51 says:
Having major back surgery just before running for president speaks loudly of Perry’s unsound judgment. The man is ill equiped to perform the duties of our U.S. president. Ambition can blind peopel and make them do strange things. Most would be happy to be a big fish in a little pond.
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texun Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 11:56 pm
JFK had major back problems by 1960, but it wasn’t evident during the nomination and general election campaigns because dosage was controlled to fit his public appearances and he never, ever, had a drink before he appeared at a rally. The booze flowed afterwards.
Perry’s giggling performance in New Hampshire sounds to me like the result of medication and alcohol combined. If so, this was a stunning lapse by his handlers!
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Jim says:
A good post by Texas Ex @ 8:33. I think that is probably the best explanation.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 9:39 am
Texas Ex said:
“1) Perry is not smart,
(2) Perry is ill prepared, or
(3) Perry was still recovering from surgery.”
can we apply this same logic to Obama for his poor performance?
1. He’s inept(actually hillary said this first)
2. He’s not as smart as democrats thought.
3. He’s too smart and is bored by being president.
good luck with that, I suspect his poor performance stems from his policies.
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Joan Bernice Books Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Nope. Can’t apply the same logic as Obama is not inept, is smart and had no surgery. Your shift is starting at Target, sonny, hurry!
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Distinguished Gentleman says:
It is truly sad that someone as pathetic as James R. “Rick” Perry is, at the present time, the nation’s longest-”serving” sitting Governor.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 10:46 am
no what is really sad is Calif Guv Jerry Brown’s claim to fame. He is currently the “oldest serving Guv”
Democrat politicians never go away they die in office.
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Col. Mike Kirby Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Get a dictionary cult boy. longest does not equal oldest
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Anonymous Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Hey – manboy with the John Wayne fetish – leave our resident flame thrower alone. JBB’s posts are short, sweet, and inflammatory – just like we like them. Yours? Not so much.
Col. Mike Kirby Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Nice sockpuppet jbb.
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TexianPolitico says:
Morrow,
Any truth to the rumor that you are now in Keokuk, Iowa stumping for Ron Paul with Alex Jones and Charlie Sheen. That is “winning” if so! You need to post pictures.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
Burka wonders why he can’t get an interview with Guv Perry as his liberal magazine bestows it Bum Steer award on Perry.
You guys ain’t too bright, as we say here in the sticks.
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Christopher Walker says:
I’m not sure Governor Perry’s health problems are of a physical nature.
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JUICE says:
“Charlie Sheen just endorsed Ron Paul and said he is, “Winning.” I’m sure that endorsement will help. There is now talk that Sheen and Alex Jones will join Paul on a bus tour of Iowa after Christmas. I hope C-SPAN covers that circus.”
I’d head up there and see it in person.
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Robert Morrow says:
Ron Paul now with the slight edge to WIN Iowa over Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/?eventClassId=19
Newt’s chances have been cratering both in Iowa and nationwide. A last minute Herman Cain adultery endorsement is not going to help.
The cause of this is the Newt Gingrich down ballot problem. It is the Republican equivalent of the ebola virus. That is why the “establishment” is taking down Gingrich and propping up Ron Paul for 3 weeks.
Laugh about Charlie Sheen, but he is an independent voter. There are MILLIONS like Charlie Sheen. Scary huh? But no more scary than the militarist neocon statists who have wrecked this country and economy.
Ron Paul will close strong in Iowa and probably win it by a few points over Romney and a cratering Newter.
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TexianPolitico Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 8:13 am
Morrow,
How is the Iowa tour going? Where are you today? Waterloo? Clear Lake? Dubuque? Be sure to tell Alex and Charlie hello for us.
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Ron Paul's evil twin says:
You people have committed offense #1 against this blog…responding to JBB.
Anyway, ever notice how JBB and Morrow are never around at the same time?
Inquiring minds want to know!
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Joan Bernice Books says:
They work the same shift at Target. Sonny left his Hardy Boys lunch pail today, he’ll be surly.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
This is the reason Burka disappears for weeks at a time, he’s ashamed of stupid inane democrats posting here.
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Jerry Only Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
if i remember right, youre the one who got put on probation
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 9:10 pm
how does it feel to be wrong so often?
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Jerry Only Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 12:55 am
you tell me, youre the one still shilling for perry.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 7:08 am
wrong again, you’re on a roll.
Robert Morrow says:
Byron York:
“Poll:Dramatic drop in Gingrich support in Iowa”
Folks, this is setting up to be a narrow, although highly significant, Ron Paul win in Iowa. And from there it is rocketship off to the friendly confines of New Hampshire.
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/poll-dramatic-drop-gingrich-support-iowa/258131
A new survey from pollster Scott Rasmussen shows support for Newt Gingrich in Iowa has fallen sharply in recent days. The poll shows the former House speaker with the support of 20 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers — down from 32 percent in the last Rasmussen survey released November 15.
Gingrich has now fallen into second place in the Iowa race, behind Mitt Romney, who is at 23 percent, up from 19 percent in the last Rasmussen survey.
The complete poll results are: Romney, 23 percent; Gingrich 20 percent; Ron Paul, 18 percent; Rick Perry 10 percent; Michele Bachmann, 9 percent; Rick Santorum, 6 percent; and Jon Huntsman, 5 percent. Ten percent of likely caucus-goers said they support some other candidate or are not sure how they will vote.
In the new survey, every candidate but Gingrich gained support in the last few weeks. The biggest gainers were Romney, up four points; Paul, up eight points; and Perry, up four points. Michele Bachmann climbed three points, as did Jon Huntsman, who has been to Iowa a grand total of one time in the campaign.
Gingrich, on the other hand, fell 12 points.
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TexianPolitico Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 8:14 am
Ron Paul winning Iowa would be about as good as when Pres. Huckabee won it last time.
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wi Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 9:27 am
Rasmussen is a very biased poll. Gallup reported today that Bachman now out polls Perry, who now has 5%. He is effectively toast.
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Dallas County says:
I don’t understand the claims that Perry’s last debate performance was good. I replayed his quotes and listened to them twice. I didn’t think his comments made much sense.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 6:23 pm
A “good” debate performance for Rick Perry is speaking in complete sentences and not acting weird or talking about Monto-mayer as a Supreme Court justice, or making love to a bottle of syrup, or …
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JohnBernardBooks says:
Here’s the deal democrats yo time is up…deal with it.
The Perry/Gingrich ticket is inevitable. When is the first Gingrich/Biden debate?
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Robert Morrow says:
Gawker – “All Your Rick Perry Gay Sex Rumors Collected in One Handy Book”
http://gawker.com/5868489/all-your-rick-perry-gay-sex-rumors-collected-in-one-handy-book
Read the article. I heard a very similar story this past summer. Apparently, the modus operandi is the “keep the used condom” routine. I heard that, too.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 15th, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Rick Perry is a big supporter of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” … I think I know why!
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JohnBernardBooks says:
Morrow you have a giant mancrush on Perry. Would it help if I got you a pair of his dirty socks?
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John Johnson says:
Our Gov was good tonight. He came across as sharp and sober.
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Anonymous Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 12:35 am
John Johnson
It’s a sad commentary when Perry’s debate performance is considered “good” because “he came across sharp and sober”. That should be the rule and not the exception.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 12:44 am
Rick Perry’s political career is finished, both naionally and here in Texas. No way does he even think about running again in 2014 after this debacle.
However, he could go on to be the *Liberace* of the Iowa Caucuses in a few weeks.
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Mr. Smith says:
The more obvious question isn’t if Perry is done nationally, he obviously is, but how such a goofy dude got to be Governor and stay Governor for so long. Wasn’t there a smarter, more articulate, think for himself Republican that could have caught fire in the 1990s? But then the question answers itself. The Powers that Be in the Republican Party had no interest in elevating someone who could think for himself. That type of person would be dangerous. Instead, elevate someone vacuous, glib, and especially, one who could follow orders (when he can remember them). And thats how we got Rick Perry. Understanding that, I feel sorry for him. Like the awkward seventh grader, he probably has no idea that the joke is on him, and starts to laugh when others are making fun of him. He probably won’t even understand when they stop paying for his dinners. The Lennie Small of politics, petting his rabbit.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 7:15 am
Food for thought for the useful idiots. If Perry is so bad what does that say about democrats who can’t beat him?
Democrats are making their usual mistake judging someone on style and not substance. But then again they always do.
What came apparent in the debate is Perry will be on the National ticket. So you democrats get to ask yourself next November why can’t we beat Perry? Are we that bad?
Now thats funny I don’t care who you are.
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wi Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 9:29 am
Just about any national Democrat will beat Perry. In Texas, no. But in Texas we have a very uneducated, lock step voting public that is generally out of touch with national politics.
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ghostofann Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
What substance?
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Jerry Only Reply:
December 17th, 2011 at 1:56 am
keep getting down on your knees and giving him a good smoke. when obama wins next november, im going to bring these words back to haunt you.
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donuthin says:
Ouch, a bit cynical, but my cynical self says it is probably way too true.
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John Cobarruvias says:
Anyone who suffers from chronic back pain knows how difficult it is to participate in anything that requires standing for a long time. It is absolutely power draining!
As for Perry, as much pain as he has put this state through, I have absolutely no pity for him.
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TexianPolitico says:
Burka,
What? No blog post about last night’s debate? What do we pay you for? Oh wait, we don’t pay you. We just like to read your takes and then go to the comments section to see what crazy stuff Morrow has written. Speaking of Morrow, did you hear where he set up a phone center in his home in west Austin for Ron Paul and is serving free Totino’s Pizza Rolls and Mountain Dew to all who want to come on over and make calls to Iowa voters? Here is the script they are using for these calls to prospective Paul voters. It may just work!
Hello Mr/Ms _________, I’m ________, a devouted Ron Paul supporter from his home state of Texas. I want to take a moment of your time to tell you about how Dr. Paul is going to rid the world of the Illuminati, the Bilderbergers, the Zionists, and the New World Order. Recently journalist Alex Jones said that Dr. Paul is like, “Obi Wan Kenobi – he is our only hope.” Won’t you please join with me to defeat the dark side of the force and elect a true Jedi warrior like Dr. Paul to the presidency. You, as an Iowan, can help us take that first step back to creating balance in the universe. Oh, and did you know that LBJ killed JFK and Bush and Clinton ran an international child prostitution ring for the CIA? Dr. Paul will abolish that as well. Ok, well, see you at the caucus! For Liberty!
End call.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Texan Politico is probably “Dave Nalle.” Can you imagine is chagrin at his candidate Gary Johnson dumping the Republicans and jumping into the Libertarian party who Nalle hates on all the time.
Or the fact that 12 year state representative Glen Maxey and #1 gay activist in Texas Glen Maxey puts out a book pretty much confirming everything I have been saying about Katy Rick Perry for eons (at least the gay angle).
Or the fact that Ron Paul is on a ginormous roll, with even the “establishment” willing to prop him up for 3 weeks.
U ought to be enjoying the fact that the religious right in Texas has had a hand grenade blow up in their face.
Nalle once told me that his mommy worked for the CIA, that explains his defensiveness on anything CIA related – such as murdering John Kennedy.
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TexianPolitico Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
I’m not Dave Nalle, but I do like your free Totino’s Pizza Rolls and Mountain Dew. I’m also not a Gary Johnson supporter. Ha.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
my apologies … to you and Dave Nalle.
Willie James says:
Gallup Poll out today says that Gingrich is declining, Romney going back up. Bachmann and Perry switch positions with Bachmann ahead of Perry who is polling only 5%.
Beginning to look like typical GOP performance: Rise fast, fall fast. Perry is out of it,voters learning that Gigrich is not electable.
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John Johnson says:
It appears that others across the country can’t be hoodwinked quite as easily as we Texans. Of course, I blame a great deal of this malady on the Texas media. They don’t ask the right questions, and when they do, they just scratch the surface and don’t dig deep enough. No one in office in Texas appears to be afriad of the media, and with all the questionable money exchanges going on, they should be. Perry should never have made it as far as the has. Letting him take credit for things he had nothing to do with, and pointing fingers at the legislature for all the bad, is just plain negligence.
Now, we are about to get another attractive, unqualifed, well heeled, well connected,”do you know who I am…I’ll call your boss” guy in the race to replace KBH up in D.C. What a joke. Has this guy ever earned one cent in the real world?
Craig James probably stands a good chance of winning since we Texans seem to have a skewed sense of who is best qualifed. I can only pray that the Red Raiders, who know exactly how James operates, makes their voices heard.
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chickasawelder Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 12:40 pm
And remember: Perry supposedly had Christmas dinner with Craig James in Dallas in 2009 preparing for an opening in 2010 if KBH resigned; he quickly lands a spot on the Texas Public Policy Foundation Board where he can get up-to-speed on the issues and the “agenda”; and Ted Delisi reportedly was (is) his consultant.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Rick Perry earn a penny in the real world? Rolling Stone tagged him the “Best Little Whore in Texas” and the “Adolph Hitler of Shallow” (my fave)
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rick-perry-the-best-little-whore-in-texas-20111026
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Willie James Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Craig James is so crooked when he dies they will screw him into the ground. At 18 he was running his scams to get cars and easy classes and Red Raiders full know the level of his integrity.
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Reminder Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Craig James ruined two Texas college football programs. He should be run out of Texas.
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AreYouKiddingMe says:
Anybody who thought Perry was good last night is as much an idiot as Perry. Good as compared to what??? He is a buffoon. He is a liar. He has his facts wrong. Did he actually say that he has a track record of working with Democrats in Austin?? Are you friggin kidding me?? And, every time they ask him a question, he tries to respond to some other question. Horrible debate and I just enjoy watching him implode. After all the damage he has done in our state, he deserves every public humiliation he gets. Run, Rick, Run!! Just keep spending money until it is all gone. Good riddance, you are a national joke!
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John Johnson Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
If you judge last night’s performance against his others, he was good last night.
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jpt51 says:
Tough week to try and take a vacation Paul. You’re missing out on some gems from Gov. Tebow – some really funny stuff…
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TexianPolitico says:
And now Tebow is dating Lindsay Vonn. Winning!
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
I think Tim Tebow’s era of virginity will be coming to a close soon, with some Olympic offspring in the near future.
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TexianPolitico Reply:
December 16th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Tim Tebow and Lindsay Vonn vs Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen this weekend. Its an epic clash of the couples!
Robert, how is your bus trip going through Iowa? Did you get to spend any time with the American Pickers guys?
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Tom says:
Perry strained his back double dipping. Could we please get rid of him.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
Perry is only going to get stronger, he’s peaking at just the right time. How does it feel to so wrong so often dems?
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Anonymous Reply:
December 17th, 2011 at 9:38 am
JBB—you are hallucinating.
His poll numbers are still in the tank, combined with an inflamatory book that was just released as well as being made “Bum Steer of the Year”
And you call that peaking? geesh……………
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paulburka Reply:
December 17th, 2011 at 9:55 am
His poll numbers are not in the tank. One of the Senate candidates did a poll, and Perry’s favorable/unfavorable was 3:!. (KBH is 4:1),
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 17th, 2011 at 11:10 am
sometimes reality has to smack some upside the head before it sinks in.
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Robert Morrow says:
That Glen Maxey book “Head Talking Head” about the rampant promiscous homosexual lifestyle is Rick Perry is slowing starting to gain traction.
Here is the press roundup of the story:
http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/11639/press-roundup-of-maxeys-book-exploring-perry-gay-rumors
I have been completed vindicated in everything I have been saying about Perry. Glen Maxey has pulled out a sledgehammer and smacked Rick Perry right in the gut.
This story is not going away and the endgame is not going to be favorable to Perry. What it is doing is shaking out even more leads on Rick Perry, who apparently was quite active in his double life.
The bottom line is Maxey and I only know the TIP of the iceberg as it relates to Perry. I shudder at the full truth being known.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
Keep telling yourself that.
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Rusty Nail says:
The fat injected into his back went straight to his head.
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hooah! says:
I’m so sick of Rick.
Can we please talk about something else?
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retrocon says:
Thank you Mitt, thank you Newt, thank you Michelle and John and Rick S. and Ron for letting me play in the big leagues. By getting my clock cleaned a few times it means I’m in the game. A football player told me that once. That’s why I’m beginning to like these debates. They said Tebow had a bad throwing…
…motion. And if I want to give money to the companies of my big donors that is the beauty of the 10th Amendment. We get to pick winners and losers, not the Federal government. I’ve been doin’ that for 11 years and when I…
was Agriculture Commissioner sure some farms went belly up but that’s the business cycle and we got people bein’ shot at from across the border…
and I’ve been dealin’ with those cartels for 11 years and so I can’t wait to debate Barak Obama because I can get there early before he does…
And that’s why I should be the next Tim Tebow in Iowa.
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Robert Morrow says:
Dear Texas political insider geniuses. Did any of YOU – Harvey Kronberg, Paul Burka, Wayne Slater, Ross Ramsey, whoever that guy who writes for the American-Statesman is, name 5 more, Evan Smith – did any of YOU foresee Ron Paul possibly WINNING the Iowa cauces?? And then perhaps finishing a strong 2nd in New Hampshire?
Because that is a strong possibility.
Question for all of you – why don’t you pull your collective heads out of Rick Perry’s ass and do some journalism. You might find out what is going on in the world. Must the public depend on my Facebook page to find timely and accurate information on what is going on in Texas/US national politics?
https://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/?eventId=90932
and P.S., you missed the “Rick Perry is gay” story, too, and it was going right on under your noses for 20 years.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 17th, 2011 at 1:11 am
There is more to politics than money, maybe u will figure that out one day.
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longleaf says:
Morrow, the fact is (and I know you know this) that Ron Paul is the ultimate “politically incorrect” candidate for the global powers that be and he will be PHYSICALLY eliminated from the planet a la JFK, if necessary, and THAT will be the only time he ever gets significant coverage from the establishment media.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
2 things to remember about the Iowa Caucuses
1. Huckabee won in 2008.
2. The winner gets 0 delegates.
In Ron Pual’s world Absurbistan, Iran is just another country trying to get by. Paul’s statement about Iran shows how out of touch with reality he is.
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Another Wilco Voter says:
Nicki Haley endorses Mitt Romney. I thought Perry had that endorsement in the bag.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
December 17th, 2011 at 11:59 am
Months ago Nikki Haley was using her entire organization in South Carolina to support Rick Perry. Perry was never going to win the DeMint endorsement, but he was “married” to Nikki Haley.
The Perrybots were going to trot out a Haley endorsement at a rally at Clemson University just before the South Carolina primary (I speculate).
Nikki endorsing Romney is like being dumped by your wife/mother/grandmother at the same time. A few years ago Perry/Haley wrote and Op Ed in the WSJ just as Perry/Sanford had written one a few years before that. Perry has had his lusting eyes on South Carolina for years, carefully positioning himself to win that state in a presidential primary. Perry put a LOT of time, effort, money into wooing Haley.
Now Ron Paul is going to run laps around Rick Perry in South Carolina. Not to mention Romney!
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chickasawelder Reply:
December 17th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Perry thought so, too. He hired one of Nikki Haley’s friends for Texas Insurance Commissioner and the new Texas Insurance Commissioner hosted a fundraiser for Nikki Haley in Texas with Texas insurance companies in attendance. I’m sure the fundraiser was held simply because lots of Texans have a strong interest in the administration of state government in South Carolina.
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Kenneth D. Franks says:
The Iowa Caucuses could be won by Paul. Although I have never lived in a caucus state their process is much different than just voting in a primary and going home. His supporters are more dedicated than most.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
an Iowa caucus win by Ron Paul and $4 will get you a cup of overpriced coffee.
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Robert Morrow says:
Here is another blockbuster article by Joseph Trento, who specializes in deep politics.
“Newt Gingrich, Marianne and the Arms Dealer: A Buried FBI Investigation”
http://www.dcbureau.org/201112136815/national-security-news-service/newt-gingrich-marianne-and-the-arms-dealera-buried-fbi-investigation.html
“On October 5, Sarkis Soghanalian, once the world’s largest private arms dealer, died at 82. He had sold weapons to scores of dictators including Saddam Hussein, and he took many secrets with him to his grave. But one secret he did not take involves Newt Gingrich when he was Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. DCBureau has learned that Gingrich was at the center of a U.S. Justice Department criminal investigation in the late 1990s for a scheme to shake down the arms dealer for a $10 million bribe in exchange for Gingrich using his influence as Speaker to get the Iraq arms embargo lifted so Soghanalian could collect $54 million from Saddam Hussein’s regime for weapons he had delivered during the Iran-Iraq War.”
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