Our own Aaron Gardner was on hand to record Governor Rick Perry‘s remarks after the debate last night. I’ll be putting up the video in two parts: this part consists of the formal remarks that Governor Perry made, and the second will be from the question-and-answer period.
Not to be, ah, pawkish about this or anything: but as you can see, the difference between Perry’s performance at debates, and his ability to interact with a room, is palpable.
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Fantastic
Change Jar Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 11:49AM EST (link)Now, get some specific plans behind it and make half of that into some commercials and I will gladly get behind Perry again.
Perry should go for a maximum of one debate and have it be with friendly moderators and not be willing to do any other debates.
Then pour on the commercials.
But not 60 second commercials but 2 to 5 minute mini-infomercials that talk about that.
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Thank you, Moe, for the video showing exactly who Perry is
pttx333 (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 12:01PM EST (link)and what a great President he will be. This is the Rick Perry that I know and will stand behind – regardless. Though I will vote for whoever is the candidate, in my heart I know that the one to lead us out of the darkness is Rick Perry – period.
Ditto, pttx333.
westcoastpatriette (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 12:13PM EST (link)He has the right stuff for the right time.
Ditto
cajungirl2012 Wednesday, October 12th at 12:22PM EST (link)The man so loves America. I like listening to him.
Ditto to that pttx333
irishgirl Wednesday, October 12th at 2:42PM EST (link)I don’t care how he comes off in the debates, the guy is sincere and loves his country. He’s got my vote.
Do facts matter?
thomarn Wednesday, December 14th at 1:17PM EST (link)Perry was drunk on the campaign stage! He attacks people and often hypocritical or wrong! Lucky he did not bet Mitt!
See, THIS is what too many on our side aren't getting...
APA Guy (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 12:22PM EST (link)Debates, save a terrible Fordesque gaffe, are a small snapshot in time.
Say Perry gets the nomination and has 2-3 debates with Obama (1 of we’re really, really lucky). Are we really thinking that the other 6 months of the election season will be canceled out because Obama is a polished slick tongue and Perry is an honest straight-shooter with less-than-ideal communications skills?
Let’s remember one thing here: Bush, by all accounts, did not win a majority of the debates he participated in. However, he found messages that resonated with voters and stuck to those messages.
Rick Perry needs to find only one central message regarding the economy: FLAT TAX – or at minimum, dramatically reduced taxes. No one else is really putting that out as the centerpiece of an economic plan (no one who can win, anyway), and it is far more viable (and recommened by supply side economists – including Arthur Laffer) than the 9-9-9 plan or Mitt Romney’s plan (What is Mitt Romney’s exact plan anyway? Exactly…).
Small snapshot with big implications
nepanyrush Wednesday, October 12th at 12:41PM EST (link)It may be a “small snapshot in time,” but the debates are where lasting impressions are made. They are the only time voters see the candidates face to face, and they are spun for weeks afterward.
If what we are seeing in the debates is how Perry will perform, voters will come away with thinking Obama is a great intellect and Perry is slow-witted. All of the best ideas and policies in the world will not matter if those voters who do not follow politics closely get their impression from the debates.
And if Perry’s letting Romney get away with things in these debates, and not hitting his weaknesses effetively, is any indication, then Obama will be able to spin like crazy. For all his warts, Obama will not get away with lies and distortions if Romney is the nominee, and Gringrich would run rings around Obama. Even Santorum shows more passion than Perry and is a better speaker, although he looks too angry.
Talking point robots
thomarn Wednesday, December 14th at 1:20PM EST (link)Guess unless it is a one line soundbite you won’t retain it!
See, THIS is what too many on our side aren't getting...
APA Guy (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 12:22PM EST (link)Debates, save a terrible Fordesque gaffe, are a small snapshot in time.
Say Perry gets the nomination and has 2-3 debates with Obama (1 of we’re really, really lucky). Are we really thinking that the other 6 months of the election season will be canceled out because Obama is a polished slick tongue and Perry is an honest straight-shooter with less-than-ideal communications skills?
Let’s remember one thing here: Bush, by all accounts, did not win a majority of the debates he participated in. However, he found messages that resonated with voters and stuck to those messages.
Rick Perry needs to find only one central message regarding the economy: FLAT TAX – or at minimum, dramatically reduced taxes. No one else is really putting that out as the centerpiece of an economic plan (no one who can win, anyway), and it is far more viable (and recommened by supply side economists – including Arthur Laffer) than the 9-9-9 plan or Mitt Romney’s plan (What is Mitt Romney’s exact plan anyway? Exactly…).
Where is *THIS GUY* in the debates?
funwithknives Wednesday, October 12th at 12:35PM EST (link)I saw Him at CPAC in Naw’Lins.
I’ve seen him on T V interviews.
I definitley see him here. So where in He– does he go when he should be on his A-Game.
Whe I saw him on C-Span I saw a glimse of Ronnie, there. SO Where DID *HE* GO? C’mon Rick, show us sumthin’.
Sharing your frustration, but keep in mind...
APA Guy (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 12:39PM EST (link)…Perry didn’t have the benefit of decades of acting experience like The Gipper did
He’ll be fine. Frankly, I’m less worried about how the general public will react to him as our candidate than all the hand-wringing that is going on in conservative circles. People are way to eager to head for the default candidate (Cain, Romney) just because our best conservative candidate isn’t the best debater in the world.
The guy campaigns well and raises a heap of money…I’ll take that over the ability to deliver soundbites any day of the week and twice on Election Tuesday.
It's hard to debate when your tipsy!
thomarn Wednesday, December 14th at 1:22PM EST (link)He is also a drunk… Google it for yourself!
I Don't Know
wonkish1 (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 12:43PM EST (link)Maybe its national camera shyness. That has done in a few people over the years(remembers Jindahl’s response).
Maybe its that the remarks he’s giving in that setting are essentially pre-prepared. A candidate gives speeches every single day, they usually repeat the same lines using slightly different phrasing and order over and over and over again.
Otherwise your guess is as good as mine.
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txpat Wednesday, October 12th at 1:17PM EST (link)This round table debate the folks that didn’t get asked questions would jump in without asking for permission.
Wow, that was pretty inspiring.
runner12 (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 12:37PM EST (link)I have been going back an forth between supporting Perry or Cain. That talk right there may solidify my support for Perry.
The guy seems authentic and I like the positive tone he took. I look forward to watching Part 2.
He totally gets it, runner12, that government is the problem. nt
westcoastpatriette (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 12:40PM EST (link).
You said it.
runner12 (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 5:19PM EST (link)THAT is the guy I want in the WH. I could care less if he is proficient in debating. All he has to do is be clear like he was in this video and he will be fine.
5555!
beach91 Wednesday, October 12th at 5:54PM EST (link)n/t
Certainly better than Cain
ihavehadit Wednesday, October 12th at 2:44PM EST (link)he didn’t once spout some campaign slogan like 999, or hope and change. This man is the real deal. Cain can’t talk without slaming Perry adding nothing to the narative. Perry made a point of saying anyone of the other 7 on the stage with him would be a better president than Obama, just that he would be the best to get the country back on track. A real change from what that trogan horse Cain said about not supporting Perry if he was the nominee or that he would accept the VP slot if Perry asked him. (In his dreams) Can’t these Cain radicals see the difference?
Correction
ihavehadit Wednesday, October 12th at 2:48PM EST (link)I wanted to say Cain WOULDN’T ACCEPT A VP SLOT FROM PERRY.
USGrant lives... Perry is a drunk!
thomarn Wednesday, December 14th at 1:25PM EST (link)That’s because Cain would not know what to do! 999
thomarn, and your proof that Rick Perry is a drunk can be found where?
retire05 Wednesday, December 14th at 1:48PM EST (link)Oh, yeah, the claims of some lunatic bloggers that he was drunk in New Hampshire, although the organizers of the event said that was a lie.
Go away troll. You belong over at HuffingtonPost where you can get your jollies.
retire05
retire- They are getting desperate
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, December 14th at 2:05PM EST (link)Gov. Perry is clearly moving back up in the polls and the Newt Ron Romney’s are throwing everything they can think of against the wall. I laughed my head off yesterday when one bird suggested that Perry may be in the early stages of Alzheimers. That was from a Newt supporter. They don’t realize that it would be just as easy to throw junk out there, such as the fact that a psychiatrist determined that Newt may have inherited his mother’s manic-depressive disorder, as it is inheritable. I really did read that in an article.
Scope, I agree
retire05 Wednesday, December 14th at 3:04PM EST (link)Obviously the Newt Ron Romney are not good listeners. Rick has consistantly said that as POTUS he would not support a “federal” law requiring in-state tution as it is a 10th Amendment issue. This is in line with his philosophy that education is also something that should fall under the purview of the states and municipalities, not the federal government.
But I suspect that NH’s problem with Rick Perry has more to do with his being from a southern state than anything else. Yankees can’t seem to move on from 1865. Ronmey is a yankee, Paul a transplanted yankee and Newt has been in D.C. so long I doubt he has any ties to his native state.
retire05
I 3rd you guys.
avagreen Wednesday, December 14th at 3:21PM EST (link)This is getting ridiculous, especially the desperate comment about Perry and Alzheimer’s. Of course, Perry has said that in-state tuition is a internal solution to an internal problem.
Where have the intelligent people gone?
Rick Perry STILL! doesn’t have or need blood. He is filled with magma.
Rick Perry uses his bare hands to hunt.
Countdown Until Obama Leaves Office.
The technical term is "Signal-to-noise ratio", Ava....
acat (Diary) Wednesday, December 14th at 3:56PM EST (link)It means, in this case, that the morons (no offense to Ace’s Morons) are drowning out the intelligent people.
The really funny, in an ironic and sad way, are the Mittenheads who get all up in arms about in-state tuition* but who demand that we look at Romneycare as an internal solution.
Mew
* I stand by my previous assessment – Perry saved the State money by offering in-state tuition that’s mostly going toward community college credit, at $80/credit hour, instead of paying a government lawyer plus staff at somewhere north of $400,000/year to defend Texas against lawsuits from illegals demanding the in-state rate …
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retire- I'm more of the belief
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, December 14th at 4:20PM EST (link)that Perry’s lack of support in NH has more to do with his social conservatism than anything else. For a good while I have been reading that more and more NH residents are becoming more and more libertarian. Isn’t their motto “live free or die.” Haven’t they brought up leaving the union? Romney is very squishy wishy on social issues, Gingrich hasn’t been the picture of moral values, and Paul just wants everyone to get high and be happy, hey have at it, do what ever you want, nobody cares if you marry your sister or dog. Wasn’t NH the state that has the least amount of church goers? I am totally convinced that Perry is too Christian, too pro-family, and way to traditional in his social views for those in NH. And yes, he isn’t ivy league Havud enough for them. If I’m not mistaken it was the same bird that said he was in the first stages of Alzheimers, that also said he needed to drop his Texas twang, and stop with the Texas swagger, and that Mittey didn’t talk like a typical Bostonian. I think she was from Mass.
How dare that Texan cowboy think he can become president, didn’t we already have one of those dopes in the WH?
It's impolite to suggest that we send a case 'round...
Moe Lane (Diary) Wednesday, December 14th at 3:48PM EST (link)…to all the other Presidential candidates: after all, that would be a calculated insult to Romney and Huntsman, and I have no desire to ding either of them for their piety.
But I think that you’ve embarrassed your candidate enough for one day.
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beach91 Wednesday, October 12th at 4:30PM EST (link)Where has this guy been? I want this man to show up at the debates! Please!
OK. I give up. Where was the teleprompter hidden?
conservativemountaineer Wednesday, October 12th at 7:47PM EST (link)LOL.
I don’t want a smooth debater or someone who can read a teleprompter. I also don’t want RomneyCare/ObamaCare or a non-starter 9-9-9 plan.
From the time Rick Peery entered the race, I’ve been thinking about supporting his candidacy. I will admit there are some of his positions that I haven’t fully researched (I can say the same about Romney and Cain), but right now Perry is head and shoulders above Romney and Cain.
I will absolutely hurl if I *have* to pull the lever for Romney.. Cain, I could do, but he will *never* get the 9-9-9 plan impemented. If Cain wins the nomination, I can see Obama saying “Cain wants to raise EVERYONE’S taxes. by having a National Sales Tax… I don’t… I only want to raise taxes on the millionaires and billionaires. Plus, he wants to LOWER taxes on those greedy Corporations AND the millionaires and billionaires!!!!!” /Obama Preacher-style Voice
‘Nuf said.
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This is Rick Perry that was at RS Gathering, etc.
CarolT (Diary) Wednesday, October 12th at 11:37PM EST (link)This is great. Rick needs to be with people one on one and not rehearsed. He speaks from his heart. This is the man I want to vote for in the primary (if my vote counts in MA) and to be out next POTUS. He loves our country and is not trying to apologize for our greatness.
Thank you both, Aaron & Moe for the videos. I am going to watch part 2 now.