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.
Back to the question.
Who will Romney pick? He has already answered that question.
Kelly Ayotte. Look her up.
Here is something to chew on:
Endorsements:
Many prominent GOP figures went to New Hampshire to help Ayotte in her 2010 campaign, including John McCain, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour, and Rick Santorum. According to one senior GOP aide, “The addition of a Republican woman from New England who’s young, who’s a mom … all of these things broaden the Republican party’s appeal and say to different segments of the population, ‘This party has folks in it that are just like you.’”
Well I’ll be a hog-tied ring-tailed cat!
This lady is just ordinary folks, just like me!
This is why the term… “Close enough for Government work,” exists.
He’s not close enough.
Funny how liberals bash Perry for being dumb about a comment like this, when the real dumb action was in giving hundreds of millions of dollars to a campaign donor, thinking it would lead to green jobs.
I agree, Rick Perry is not dumb. He is smart.
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?
I can’t help but wonder if there was any quid pro quo involved with that transaction.
Naw, couldn’t be.
Rick Perry For President?
Meet 24 Billionaires Who’ve Backed Him
Harold Simmons
Net worth: $5.7 billion; Source: investments
Donated: $600,000
Kenny Troutt
Net worth: $1.2 billion; Source: Excel Communications
Donated: $300,000
Thomas Friedkin
Net worth: $1.5 billion; Source: Toyota dealerships
Donated: $298,003
Jeffrey Hildebrand
Net worth: $1.9 billion; Source: oil
Donated: $285,000
T Boone Pickens
Net worth: $1.4 billion; Source: oil
Donated: $200,000
Lee Bass
Net worth: $2 billion; Source: oil
Donated: $159,760
Trevor Rees-Jones
Net worth: $3.3 billion; Source: oil
Donated: $150,000
Robert Rowling
Net worth: $4.2 billion; Source: investments
Donated: $129,271
Robert McNair
Net worth: $1.4 billion; Source: energy
Donated: $125,000
H Ross Perot Jr
Net worth: $1.4 billion; Source: computer services
Donated: $110,000
Ray Davis
Net worth: $1.4 billion; Source: pipelines
Donated: $101,000
Sid Bass
Net worth: $2 billion; Source: oil
Donated: $100,000
Darwin Deason
Net worth: $1 billion; Source: Xerox
Donated: $100,000
Charles Butt
Net worth: $5.3 billion; Source: supermarkets
Donated: $75,000
Drayton McLane
Net worth: $1.5 billion; Source: Walmart
Donated: $50,500
Gerald J Ford
Net worth: $1.4 billion; Source: banking
Donated: $50,000
David Koch
Net worth: $22 billion; Source: diversified
Donated: $25,000
Alice Walton
Net worth: $21.2 billion; Source: Walmart
Donated: $25,000
Richard Kinder
Net worth: $7.4 billion; Source: pipelines
Donated: $25,000
Andrew Beal
Net worth: $6.6 billion; Source: banking
Donated: $25,000
Kelcy Warren
Net worth: $2 billion; Source: pipelines
Donated: $20,000
John Paul DeJoria
Net worth: $4.2 billion; Source: hair products, tequila
Donated: $10,000
Winemaker Jess Jackson and pipeline tycoon Dan Duncan, both deceased, were also billionaire Perry donors.
Yep, Rick Perry is ordinary folks, just like me.
LOL, you don’t think Obama has billionaires supporting his campaign? Why he has more donations from Romney’s company Bain Capital than Romney himself.
Nothing wrong with slips. We all do it. I know what he meant to say which is all that matters.
NFS, wins today’s “neener neener, you’re party does it too” award.
The queen sheep hath spoken.
Keep showing us what a pathetic sheep you are. Yes, we know you don’t care your team is full of a bunch of asswipes just like you.
Sheepleeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I don’t agree with the idea that you should only take donations from people with less money.
Patriot Business folk support confirms Perry is a good choice.
Although I like Paul, after him Bachmann, Perry, Santorum are good choices.
But that business support is confirming to me.
They are invested in America, and want it to succeed, unlike the alien in the White House we got now.
If we don’t stop spending ourselves into oblivion…2016 will be too late.
You are quite naive. I imagine you are still buying that “Hope and Change” bullshit.
It’s standard practice for liberals to label whoever gets nominated by the Republicans as their ticket as evil and dumb. They just do it time after time, and liberals in lockstep echo the comments. Watch, it will happen again.
It’s standard practice for conservatives to label whoever gets nominated by the Democrats as their ticket as socialist and amoral. They just do it time after time, and conservatives in lockstep echo the comments. Watch, it will happen again.
No one’s calling Paul, Gingrich or Romney dumb. They are abhorrent for other reasons.
If you don’t like the criticism maybe the GOP should field better candidates.
In all 57 states the consensus of corpsmen everywhere, including the vets we honor on memorial day, believe he is a genius compared to the wrecking ball now ruining the economy.
all that crap you liberals cite mean nothing to us longing for common sense in government, which he brings to the table, even if you think he is as dumb as Bush.
we elected Bush, so the smears didn’t work then either.
we elected Bush, so the smears didn’t work then either.
Good to see YOU take responsibility for electing a person that has plundered a surplus in the treasury, sent hundreds of thousands to their death in Iraq and borrowed trillions to fund tax breaks for the wealthy and unfunded wars.
WE need to do a better job of smearing the next goon you pick for the executive branch.
Shameful. How are you explaining your poor judgement to your spawn and to God?
Malice: “borrowed trillions to fund tax breaks for the wealthy and unfunded wars.”
Its Obama who funneled billions to crony capitalists, wall street backers and union buddies.
Over a trillion a year…not Bush.
Look at the timeline.
The initial 700 billion dollar bailout stated under Buch’s watch.
The Fed took advantage of the changing administration to leave the discount window wide open for anybody to plunder and to tear us a new one worth some 17 trillion dollars and send our hand earned dollar all over the world.
It was the idiot Bush who screwed us.
That and the current president that turned the turn “hope & change” in “smoke & mirrors”
Taxed, your nihilism is astounding.
Is nihilism the new stupid?
Perry is not really wrong. Some multi-national corporations make far more profit than the GDP of many third world countries combined. They are becoming what William Gibson predicted: Megacorps. These are corporations so big, rich and powerful eventually they will be above any national laws, and may even become the governments in some areas.
Don’t laugh. Megacorps have existed in the past. Take the British East India company. It was the government in India. It had so much control economically, it basically called the shots in Parliament.
To misquote Timbuk 3: The Future’s So Bleak, I Gotta Wear Shades
Hate to inform those Liberals but they have just as stupid candidates on their side. Part of the reason Government is so indecisive and without reason. American’s need to stop focussing on one party to blame and realize the people we elect to serve this Country are dumb.
They’re generally not ‘dumb’ but generally talk without thinking through what comes out of their Pie Hole.
Obama, Ron Paul and Noob Gingrich are by far the most articulate and have seemingly good wiring between their brain and their PH.
IMHO, for better or for worse, it is our divided government system that is problematic. But by far, the biggest problem is the voting sheeple get to pick who runs government based on religion and bias. Both of which are influenced by TV and radio ads bought by the top 3%.
IOW, I like ‘em because they talk pretty. Idiot!
both parties are bought equally, you thing the amoral and socialist big business is gonna let let their grip on government slip away from them by backing one party? HA!
No hate to say this, but both the liberals and the conservatives are to blame for the state we are in. Due to their radical viewpoints and inability to work together for the common need of the nation we are in the shit.
Both sides need to be deported with their families three generations deep and three houses out.
Cursor_
The Repuke “Candidates” have shown themselves to be DUMB AND DUMBER !!! And they think they can “Lead” the Country ??? NO ONE should vote Repuke or Bagger – it is a formula for a NATIONAL DISASTER !!!
“Yeah, they have destroyed the country in this Administration. When Obama gets elected, he’ll fix everything!”
Let me know when they elect him.
The simple point to make here is that the billionaires run this country whether you like it or not.
Whether Republican or Democrat, the politicians are beholden to their constituency, the billionaires.
There is no representation for the Middle Class.
There is no populist political party.
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.
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?
Obama’s brilliant speech.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=omHUsRTYFAU
‘Gave him treatment with a breathalyzer..’
Can Obama really be this dumb?
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”??