Sounds like deranged right-winger presidential candidate Rick Perry was either drunk off his ass or all doped up on something Friday night (pictures above and below). Speaking to a right-winger group called "Cornerstone Action" in New Hampshire, the George W clone "put on strange voices" and flailed his arms around in the air like a fool, as if he was "drunk or on some form of medication."The accounts of Perry's zany speech also describe it as "unusually expressive, rambling and sometimes even incoherent." Which, for me, begs an obvious question: Given those descriptions, how was the New Hampshire speech much, if any, different from Perry's pathetic gop-er presidential debate performances?
Dude needs a professional speech therapist. He can put together nary a sentence without some awkward long pause right in the middle of it. He stutters and stammers around more than Kansas basketball coach Bill Self reciting "Peter Piper." Chalk it up to booze or medication, if you will, but I've a different theory: The guy just ain't too bright, and he's certainly not presidential material. Not when he makes his Texas contemporary, W Bush, look like FDR at the podium.But Perry still might be luckier than the wood discarded after they notch the seater hole in a Texas shithouse. That's because the "mainstream" media seemingly forgot very quickly about the Perry speech in light of allegations that his right-winger rival Herman Cain sexually harassed two women in the 1990s AD.
The Cain story was a part of a four-person byline "exclusive" by politico.com Sunday (based upon vague, non-specific accusations by anonymous sources), which also begs a question of its own: How many members of the left-advocating "mainstream" media does it take to screw a rather pedestrian "sex" story into a website article template? Politico next time just needs to find a Goon or a Center, and it can field a decent hockey or basketball team for its next piece of tabloid fodder.
But all half-joking around aside, I'm wondering why politico.com wouldn't save a story like this for the general election, when it could be much more devastating to the gop-er chances of beating that individual we currently have for president in 2012 AD...I can only surmise either (1) politico (a distinctly left-leaning media outlet the past few years) thought some other media outlet was about the jump on the story, necessitating that they go ahead and run with it or (2) politico (like many others) thinks Cain has little or no chance at the right-winger nomination, and so saving the story would waste it.
Regardless, the Cain item -- if it sticks and lingers (and it may well not) -- does threaten to derail the so-called "Cain Train" in rather Short Line order (I still have Monopoly on the brain from last week). Which would likewise make the collapsing Perry campaign the luckiest one on earth this week:
Not only does the hapless Texas governor get a pass for his Friday speech, but now he may just jump right back towards contention in the right-winger primary race. Pays off a lot better to be lucky than good, I guess. And BTW, I just hope he lays off the booze and meds when he's firing off them sidearms.
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