pst, ministry of energy

yahoo

You know Pirates? Remember when the barkeeper says "test?"

Smells like oil proffits. Wonder if Perry tried to prove that the Iraq war was done in fact out of bad intentions (of course if nobody tried before)


GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry’s memory lapse at Wednesday night’s CNBC debate will go down as one of the worst debate flubs in history, but it may not mean the campaign kiss of death that the Twitterverse quickly proclaimed it to be.

Despite the national audience of televised debates, a solitary sound bite is rarely the deciding factor between winning the nomination and foundering into failure.

A 43-second clip that exemplifies one of the candidate’s biggest weaknesses, however, could deal a deathly blow to an already struggling campaign, said long-time political consultant Phil Noble

“I don’t think this in and of itself is going to kill him, but I think that it could become the symbol of what kills him,” Noble said. “If he continues to reinforce this message of not being ready, of not being bright enough or smart enough, then this becomes the symbol of that larger message.”

Perry, who surged to the top of the polls shortly after announcing his campaign in August, has seen his support wane since the beginning of October. Despite his notoriously poor performances in the past six debates, his poll numbers did not dip directly following those less-than-stellar showings.

After the Texas governor’s debut performance - which became a Saturday Night Live spoof that showed him falling asleep at the podium – Perry’s support increased by 4 percent.