Discussion: Rick Perry Critiqued What Went Wrong In 2012: 'I Wasn't Healthy'

system1 · May 26, 2015, 4:36pm

Discussion for article #236771

estamm · May 26, 2015, 4:57pm

I guess he made a bad decision to run back then. So, he now has a history of making bad decisions.

expfcwintergreen · May 26, 2015, 4:57pm

“And I didn’t know stuff. But now I do. You can tell. I have nerd glasses on.”

manhattan123 · May 26, 2015, 4:58pm

Is that what the kids are calling being a mental midget now? I am so behind in my lingo. His answer is on fleek though.

sedonaz · May 26, 2015, 5:02pm

Dear Governor Glasses, you may be healthier now, but your stupidity hasn’t changed.

sniffit · May 26, 2015, 5:03pm

“The other was in preparation”

Teatroll Rosetta Stone: “I had to memorize my lines because I’m actually a full-blown nihilist, have formed and hold no informed opinions on these subjects myself and don’t really give a fuck…I just want to say whatever it takes to get elected.”

jkrogman · May 26, 2015, 5:05pm

Not being a dope is also an advantage for some candidates.

cpl593h · May 26, 2015, 5:10pm

“I thought I could just stand there and say ‘Hey, vote for me cuz I’m from Texas!’ It worked for the last idiot from Texas to run for President.”

mombiethezombie · May 26, 2015, 5:11pm

“The third group of lowlifes grifting off the Texas taxpayers that I would drug test —the poor, the uh, the unemployed, and let’s see. I can’t find the third one. I can’t,” Perry said during the debate. “Sorry, oops.”

darrtown · May 26, 2015, 5:12pm

Wasn’t healthy? Boy THAT’S really reaching for an excuse.
Some politicians refuse to learn.

mrcomments · May 26, 2015, 5:16pm

So then Obamacare saved him? Interesting.

edhedh · May 26, 2015, 5:18pm

hmm. his health made him stupid. apparently he is still in poor health.

wwss · May 26, 2015, 5:21pm

“All the health stories” … guess I missed that part of Perry’s imaginary world view.

docmoore · May 26, 2015, 5:24pm

Perry also conceded he hadn’t appropriately prepared for a presidential run.

“The other was in preparation and just spending the time on all the issues that are important to a person that’s gonna stand up and answer their questions there,” Perry said. “And it’s across the board: economics, domestic policy, monetary policy, foreign policy.”

If you are running for POTUS and you don’t have a really firm grasp of your own positions and those of your party platform before preparing, you are not qualified to try to become qualified!

meri · May 26, 2015, 5:27pm

“I was a bad candidate because of health problems, but I, apparently, thought that those health problems wouldn’t have affected my ability to President.”

That’s some McCain level logic there.

benthere · May 26, 2015, 5:31pm

If by his suggesting “I wasn’t healthy,” I believe him only if he meant mental illness and that he remains mentally ill. That would make him unqualified then and unqualified now.

blue_grit · May 26, 2015, 5:33pm

Was sick and stupid.

Now just stupid.

At least he’s in the right party.

richardnixonhuberthumphrey · May 26, 2015, 5:47pm

We totally need a prez who’s doped to the gills on hillbilly heroin.

dnl · May 26, 2015, 5:54pm

…as if being undrugged is gonna improve dinglePerry.

Google Teanderthal …and a photo of RP will appear.

littlegirlblue · May 26, 2015, 5:59pm

If Molly Ivins were still here, she’d remind us that she’d already warned us about electing governors from Texas and she shouldn’t have to remind us again.