Rick W. Perry Can't Talk Real Good

Posted on August 23, 2011 at 10:03 am by Bob Cesca

This is unbelievable. Here’s Rick W. Perry having a Bush-meets-Jan-Brewer stroke of some sort while answering a question about abstinence education.

I haven’t seen a brain fart like this one since Jan Brewer’s famous meltdown. Again, he’s absolutely George W. Bush — in a Sears mannequin wig.

Print Friendly
This entry was posted in Republican Party and tagged , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.
  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683420563 Patti Ski

    what the HELL is he talking about???????

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683420563 Patti Ski

    This man is a complete idiot. It is amazing to me that he can even be considered a viable candidate for President….along with all the other GOP candidates, I might add.

  • http://oneblueeye.me BlueEye

    Yeeehaw! They had a stupid rodeo, rounded it all up and put hair on it.

  • ThoseNerds

    Holy shit. He is dumber than I thought. Is that even possible?

  • http://twitter.com/puppy_cat Julie B.

    He’s NOT Bush. He’s meaner and worse than Bush ever thought about being. Shrub (Bush Jr) was fine as governor- benign, nice guy, not really from Texas, but nobody really cared. Rick Perry is from Asshole-of-Nowhere, TX, he’s small-minded, mean as a snake, and luckier than any closeted-gay governor of Texas has a right to be.

    • http://twitter.com/phoneranger Drew Robertson

      So when Perry says that he knows that abstinence works from his own personal experience are you inferring that the abstinence he is talking about is of the man-on-man variety?

    • http://gocart-mozart.blogspot.com/ gocart mozart

      Can someone give some evidence for this Perry is gay stuff. I keep hearing the rumor but . . .

  • http://exurbanmusings.blogspot.com/ janicket

    Is our children learning?

    The one good thing about this is that, if he is the nominee, Obama will utterly destroy him in the debates.

    • jwalden91lx

      Sweet Jeebus I can’t wait to see that. It will be magnificent.

  • http://twitter.com/puppy_cat Julie B.

    And abstinence clearly does NOT work. Kids in Texas (and every other state trying to teach abstinence) need all the valid sex education they can get and access to free birth control. Abstinence is a complete joke. It’s irresponsible, it’s ignorant and it’s the most unsafe thing in the world for these kids. In the great words of James McMurtry from his song “We Can’t Make It Here Anymore”,

    “If she comes up pregnant what’ll she do
    Forget the career, forget about school
    Can she live on faith? Live on hope?
    High on Jesus or hooked on dope
    When it’s way too late to just say no
    You can’t make it here anymore ”

    Where the hell is Ann Richards or even Bob Bullock when you need them? I’ll tell you where they are right now – spinning in their graves watching this Rick Perry dog and pony show.

  • Username1016

    What slays me is that he doesn’t seem to grasp that there’s a difference between abstinence and abstinence EDUCATION. Yes, abstinence totally works! It’s a foolproof form of birth control! I’m sure it has a stellar record in his personal life! But abstinence EDUCATION does NOT work, because it doesn’t actually lead to abstinence — it just leads to unsafe sex, duh.

    There has never, in the entire history of the world, been any way to prevent teenagers from having sex. (Not even, like, stoning them to death.) Those raging hormones are just too strong! So let’s give the kids the tools they need to minimize the life-altering risks, can’t we? Sheesh.

  • The_Dork_Knight

    Lol. He even sounds like Bush! I’m reminded of the town meeting scene in Blazing Saddles. Thank you, Sir, for that authentic frontier gibberish.

  • http://www.facebook.com/josh.dobbin Josh Dobbin

    I fear him because I think people will identify with him. He’s more genuine in his incoherent beliefs than Bush; for assholes, he passes that stupid “have a beer with” test.

  • TimEldred

    I get the impression that was the first time he was ever asked to THINK about the issue. That’s usually what leads to mouth-lock. Not enough fuel to run the brain and the mouth at the same time.

    • http://www.facebook.com/josh.dobbin Josh Dobbin

      But I really think the kind of people who gut-feel that abstinence is the only right way (who care more about slut-shaming and whore-punching than results) would identify with that kind of bottled-rage response. It isn’t floundering, it is incredulity that this little pushy reporter (who may be a jew, for all the Perry-Booster watching this knows!) doesn’t seem to understand the SIMPLE, COMMON SENSE SOLUTION that he’s trying to explain, but for the purposes of COMMON DECENCY, can’t spell out: “If you keep your legs shut, whores, you won’t get pregnant.”

      These people are awful, mean, terrible assholes who essentially do not *mean well*. They care more about punishing and revenge than they do about actually making a better outcome for more people. I think we’re misreading this exchange at our peril. This guy scares the fuck out of me like Martin Sheen in THE DEAD ZONE.

      • TimEldred

        I don’t disagree, Josh, but a dimwitted response like this is going to make Perry look like a rank amateur in serious debates.

        • Scopedog

          Very true, Tim. And Obama will hammer him.

          The question is, will the MSM notice this, or will they let Perry of the hook, like they did with Bush in 2000?

          Lord, I hate it when history repeats itself….

          • jwalden91lx

            Well, prepare to drink some Haterade, then. There won’t be anything for the beltway to do if it becomes pretty obvious that there’s a President running against a simpleton.

        • holyreality

          Yes indeed he will look as dumb as he is.

          But that is ATTRACTIVE to the GOPers of the nation. Is that attractive to the swing voters?

          If he gets disemboweled in the debate, his victimhood will negate any advantage. GOPers play the victim card the way a blackjack dealer passes out face cards.

          • jwalden91lx

            I can hear it now post debate: “Perry was decisive! Even if his policy views are a little rough around the edges.”

      • Scopedog

        “This guy scares the fuck out of me like Martin Sheen in THE DEAD ZONE.”

        Well…at least Stillson was a great speaker. Perry–not so much.

        But then again, some did make that argument against Bush back in 2000–that he was, in a very creepy manner, a living, breathing version of Greg Stillson (but missing a few thousand brain cells). And yet, the MSM kept telling us that Bush was more “manly”, that he was more “in touch” with the people, and of course, you had Nader and company screaming in from the Left with, “Not a dime’s worth of difference between the two” while sending more of their rage at Gore. Let’s not forget Bill Maher’s “Bore and Gush” bull-pucky.

        So….fast forward 11-13 years later, and we have a carbon-copy of Bush running for office….and guess what? The MSM is giving him a Bush-esque ball waxing, and some on the Left are either directing more of their rage at Obama, or whispering amongst themselves that a Perry administration won’t be a big deal, since that means that the hated Obama will be out of office.

        And of course, the Republicans show no shame in putting up a bunch of crazies who will drive the country over the cliff. As long as it makes the black guy in the White House look bad, then all bets are off.

        Just my 2-cents….

  • http://www.osborneink.com OsborneInk

    I want someone to ask all the Republican nominees for their personal abstinence testimony. Surely Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul and the rest would enjoy the chance to tell America’s youth how they kept their virginity until marriage?

  • muselet

    It was a gotcha question! That reporter asked about policy! He wasn’t supposed to do that! And since when are follow-up questions allowed?

    You can almost hear the gears grinding in Goodhair’s brain as he struggles to concoct a policy rationale on the fly.

    –alopecia

    • http://twitter.com/antistuff Antistuff

      The other prevailing theme from the still-early GOP Nomination process: Don’t use candidates words, books or quotes “against them”, that is also a gotcha moment, apparently. #SarahPalinRules have taken shape! #RaceToTheBottom

  • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

    Dear Bob,

    I cringe every time I see you compare Perry to W. He is very much like W, but he is MUCH worse.

    Please, please, when you compare him to W, note that he makes W look like a freaking Liberal.

    • http://JCohenMusic.com Justin Cohen

      I agree with Nicole. We need to stop calling him George W. Bush. He appears to be way, way worse.

      George Bush managed to survive in the White House and even get reelected. While he made many cringe for his lack of intellectual prowess, he got through eight years without being impeached and remained somewhat liked by his base.

      Between Rick Perry’s “ugly” comments last week and his apparent inability to discern the difference between abstinence as a means of birth control and abstinence education as a policy to reduce unintended pregnancies, he’s carving himself a whole new category of awful that I think is uniquely his own.

      Lumping Rick Perry together with George W. Bush is not only insulting to the former President, it also hurts our cause by indirectly implying that Perry is capable of being President, which he is not.

      I have to believe that Rick Perry is on his way to becoming yesterday’s news. Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later.

  • katalystik

    Keep talkin’ George .. I mean Rick

  • Corebela

    That video just hurt to watch. It pissed me off so much….! I imagined punching him right through the monitor and saying ” Your not even answering the question you fucking idiot!!!!” hehe good thing I have self control or I might not have a monitor.

  • http://twitter.com/bphoon Brian C

    He should’ve just stopped with “I don’t know…” at about 1:45.

    I was waiting for the moderator, at about 2:45, to say, “Just what the fuck are you saying?”

    These idiot ideologues have only their ideology to fall back on. When someone questions it and has the temerity to back up those questions with facts, they just sputter, “It works because it works and I say it works!” Meanwhile, you can just about hear them, inside the cavernous emptiness of their heads, saying, “OH FUCK!! What am I supposed to say now? OH FUCK!! THIS wasn’t in the script! OH FUCK!!”

    He’s a shoo-in for the GOP nomination. Overlook this buffoon at your peril if you’re a Democrat. Remember 2000, when we all thought the idiot from Texas couldn’t hold a candle to the suave policy wonk who’d spent most of his life preparing to be President?

  • http://www.facebook.com/willywebb2484 Willy Webb

    FAR instance? Steroids? I feel safe now. Fool me once uh uh uh uh well you know what I’m sayin….uh uh uh