Presidential Candidate Oops
I know it’s become trite to say “Oops” everydamntime that Rick Perry’s name is mentioned, but the reason it’s become trite is because he’s The Oopsy Candidate. He Oops for a living. It was his college major. He’s an Oops machine set on overdrive during an Oops storm in Oppsville during the month of Oopstober.
Take for example his recent rough and ready decision to send the Texas National Guard to South Texas. Two weeks later, fifty guard members show up at food banks because Rick Perry forgot that they don’t get paid until September 5th. Oops. They also had to beg gas money to get from their living quarters to their duty station. Oops.
Sweet Jesus in heaven above, do not let this man be commander in chief. We’d have troops landing on the beach in Normandy with no pants on.
And today we add another to the list. Perry tweeted a Photoshopped picture of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmburg, claiming that she indicted him. This tweet did come from the one that his staff writes. It was his own personal Twitter account.
Stay classy, Rick.
The Houston Chronicle pointed out —
Lehmberg did not indict Perry. She and other officials in solidly Democratic Travis County recused themselves from the case against Perry. Bert Richardson, a Republican judge from Bexar County, appointed San Antonio lawyer Michael McCrum to serve as a special prosecutor.
An hour later, Perry tweeted again.
Oops.
It was your personal Twitter account, Skippy.
Sometimes I think that Rick Perry was shot out of a cannon and missed the net.
Additionally, being “the most drunk Democrat in Texas” is a hotly contested title. I think they retired the jersey when Sam Houston died. They say he was the best politician in Texas drunk or sober.
Does Rick Perry really want to talk about drunk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf3u25PHCqc
Yeah, right.
Watching Rick Perry is like watching a guy about to fall off a chair.
1You know he’s gonna fall.
You know he’s gonna hit with a thud.
But you can’t stop him and you can’t turn away.
As Perry views himself, verses how the country see’s Perry!
http://7mat2p4zx64lewmu.zippykid.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Rick_Perry-The_Shadow_Knows.jpg
I think I found the following here, on this site.
2Ya beat me to it, JJ. I just saw that post on another blog and was gonna mail it to you … only to find out, as per usual, you got there before me. BTW, that video is the best reason to never let this man get elected to ANY public office.
3He’s either drunk, high or totally gay in that video clip!! In fact, I’d say he is/was all three at the time!! He reminds me sooooo much of some of the gay guys I worked with in Oakland, CA … and I’m still friends with one of them on FB.
I wonder if pRick will ever accept that he is gay or even bi … but that boy ain’t all straight!!
4So that is what they mean by an opposable thumb,Fred F. Can’t say I am surprised. 🙂
5Two things I find interesting:
Perry can’t tell the difference between Lehmberg (a woman D.A.,) and McCrum (the Special Prosecutor guy who really did indict him).
And this despicable tweet…. by an even more despicable twit….. stayed up for an hour ……got lots of media play…. before it was an “oops.”
Judge has warned him. I suspect she is going to have her hands full if his lawyers can’t shut him up. And, I suspect, she may be a person with a hammer…. that sees pRick as nothing much more than a nail.
Rick may beat the rap, but he will not beat the ride.
I can’t eat popcorn any more…. but I’ll be watching.
6Methinks his oxy habit is showing again.
7Of course it’s not what RP says or thinks that matters, it’s what he can convince others to say or think. If you throw enough BS up against the wall, some of it will eventually stick. And that’s what he’s hoping for. Don’t “misunderrate” him, as a famous president could have said. Next thing you know, he might be saying he had a bad marriage. Or bad boots. Or a bad memory. Whatever works!
8pRick Perry puts the OOPs in st00pid. Sorry Texas, but Dubya was enough for the rest of us. Please keep Perry, Gohmert and Cruz at home. We really, really do not want them.
9I couldn’t stand to watch the whole thing. How did anybody elect this goober to anything?
I just hear Molly Ivins saying, “The next time I tell you not to elect somebody from Texas, pay attention!”
10Some people think that Perry was dropped on his head when he was a baby. They are wrong.
Juanita Jean says, “Sometimes I think that Rick Perry was shot out of a cannon and missed the net.”
I like her theory better.
11I’m guessing here that if anybody in Texas is an expert on drunk (and stupid) it would be Rick. This is why it’s best not to use mints after drinking too much — at least people will know you’re drunk instead of stupid. Rick seems to be both most of the time.
12I think one of Perry’s major (and very disturbing) qualities is his ability to deny reality and convince others to believe his version of events. I went to the Houston Chronicle site, and there are many who’ve posted there who actually believe that Ms. Lehmberg did indict Perry. This tweet had its intended effects, imo–muddying the facts about the indictment and rallying Perry supporters to vigorously defend him in spite of the facts.
13Imagine a somebody down at police hq getting grilled and he’s constantly changing his story. The cops have no choice but to lock him up as the leading suspect. Cannot help but wonder why this hasn’t happened with pRick!
14My husband , after seeing ole rick on the tv said to me,
15“That guy is gay. Who is he?”
Told him it was rick. He just laughed.
@Marcia #4 & @Diane #15: It wouldn’t surprise me if after a few drinks, Perry’s gay mannerisms get the best of him. I saw that entire N.H. speech right after he delivered it and most of it is “straight” (literally and figuratively). But those snippets are of course the highlights that made the rounds later on when people were wondering WTF got into him. You should see the very end of the long version where he goes into raptures over a bottle of syrup that someone hands to him as a gift while he’s still onstage. I really do think that he has “gay” affectations that he lets fly when he’s in an environment where he doesn’t have to worry about looking butch. Also, alcohol would cause him to relax and let his “fabulous” hair down a bit. I don’t know if Rick Perry is gay or not, but his mannerisms certainly are.
16Ralph Wiggam @ #1–
Perry actually reminds me of an Arte Johnson character on the old “Laugh In” tv program.
The goofy little guy in a raincoat earnestly trying to ride a tricycle around, who soon tips over and crashes.
pRick’s gonna get on that little Reptaliban 2016 nomination tricycle and ride it for all he can so he won’t look like he’s in the clown car with the rest of them…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh_In#Characters
17@majii #13 & @Ms. J #16: Yup.
18Perry should repay the state money spent to defend him by contributing it to buy food and necessities for the unfortunate guardsmen he sent to the border.
19Just for sheet and (literal) giggles, here’s an 8-minute highlight reel of that same NH speech which shows a few more of Perry’s decidedly gay affectations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4gz97Y9W8
Most of this material is on the shorter version which JJ embedded in this blog post, but this longer version is worth watching to get a better idea of what everyone was talking about right after this speech. If you don’t want to spend 8 whole minutes of your life on this (I have actually watched the 25-min full speech of this, so I do get that), then at least fast forward to the 7:00 min mark where at the very end of the speech, you’ll see Perry get all huggy with the male host, and then Perry goes all nelly over a bottle of syrup. You have to see it. The description doesn’t do it justice. And why does this matter? It matters because he is so homophobic. What’s wrong with that picture?
20but when i get home and get drunk, i tweet nasty stuff and then have to take it down. behind the vicious veneer i’m really sensitive.
21Perry went to college?
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