Texas Gov. Rick “Oops” Perry has got to be Herman Cain’s new BFF.
“Oops” (he said it, now he’s going to live with it) made possibly the worst gaffe in presidential debate history by not being able to list the third of the three agencies he would eliminate as president. In doing so, he gave Herman Cain some (heavy) breathing room from the media sharks’ uber-reporting on the sexual harassment accusations made by four, or is it five now, women made against him.
Perry spent the day after the debate debacle showing up on every morning news show from sea to shining sea using self depricating humor (“Good thing I was wearing cowboy boots because I really stepped in it”) to address the gigantic gaffe.
He even showed up on Letterman the same day doing a Top Ten List poking fun at the mistake heard round the world.
There were three top stories the day after the GOP debate in Michigan: Perry’s senior moment, the disgusting child sex abuse scandal at Penn State, and … uh …. um … oops. Oh ya, Cain’s women problem. Cain’s scandal coverage went from first to third on a Perry error after being the squawk of the Beltway for 9 days.
The man who told the unemployed to “blame yourself” for being out of work and not being able to find a job won’t blame himself for the scandal ticking away at his campaign time bomb.
Cain has even gone the route of talking about himself in the third person at press conferences, as if he wasn’t even in the room. Maybe Herman Cain doesn’t want to be seen with Herman Cain.
On Monday, one Sharon Bialek went public with TMI about Cain’s alleged attempt at sexual assault on her.
Predictably, America’s Bully, Rush Limbaugh, got personal from within his sound-proof outhouse and snarked that if you broke down Bialek’s last name you’d come up with “Buy-A-Lick.”
Pathetic.
That’s right, Bully, any woman who doesn’t agree with what you flatulate is obviously a whore.
Need more evidence that right wing-nuts like their fearless leader the Bully have disdain for women? How about Cain at the debate calling former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Princess (when everybody knows there’s just one princess in politics and that’s Princess Photo-Op Palin.)
OK, so Pelosi has been called worse —- and in public. But it’s become obvious that Cain, like his role model, the Bully, can’t deal with Democratic women in powerful positions.
Besides, Herman has his own ideas of what positions women should be in.
The loser at Wednesday’s Republican Presidential Debate was not “Oops” Perry, although it was painful to watch the brain freeze he let loose like the Kracken.
No, the real loser at the debate was the candidate who keeps getting the highest marks every time —– Mitt Romney. Once again he’s upstaged by a dufus who gets all the press for some dubious achievement or another.
The way this campaign season is going, “Oops” Perry will probably benefit from his meltdown and move up in the polls.
Pundits are wrong to say Perry has got to get his act together. He already has his act together, and he keeps trying it out on the road.
Politicians as celebrities is nothing new. We just never had one who’s a human Homer Simpson before.
Maybe “Oops” is the new “doh!”
