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Audacity of Truth
"Diplomacy":
"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
Like: In new Rick Perry ad, candidate pokes light fun at “brain freeze” moment
You don’t see political ads this one often:
Politico’s Maggie Haberman describes it, and speculates on the main reason for it being released today:
Rick Perry is heading to Jay Leno’s couch tonight, and he’s making the most of it – airing this campaign ad in Iowa, in which he takes on his own “oops” moment from the CNBC debate in which he couldn’t remember the third agency he’d cut (it was the Dept. of Energy, as he notes in the ad).
The spot itself opens with the brain freeze, and then pivots to Perry poking fun at his own gaffe, noting it happens to everyone, but not quite on that scale. He then ends by pretending to forget the disclosure signoff of “I’m Rick Perry and I approved this message.”
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But the clear goal of the spot is to show Perry not taking himself too seriously, and with an ability to demonstrate an ability to take blows and keep fighting, at a time when the rest of the GOP field is either battling fresh allegations related to sex, or battling each other over who is the least consistent candidate in the field.
Ads are not the primary, or even secondary reasons I vote for or against a candidate, but they are part of the “total package”, so to speak (the awesome Reagan ads from his two successful Presidential runs come to mind) and I have to give the Perry campaign some clever points on this one. That brain freeze moment was widely regarded as the death of Perry’s campaign for the presidency, yet his ad people are turning it around and trying to paint it as a positive. Can you imagine our “perfect” celebrity President ever doing something like this with, say, his “corpsman” gaffe?
In other GOP candidate news, Newt’s arrogantly declared himself the nominee already. Seriously. The Bachmann campaign is under fire for allegedly gaining access to a homeschool email database in Iowa and using it to send campaign information. Meanwhile, Herman Cain told the NH Union Leader paper that his wife did not know about his “friendship” and financial aid to Ginger White, who has alleged a 13 year affair with Mr. Cain. Cain also said in the interview that dropping out of the race “is an option.”
As they say, stay tuned …
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I like it.
For me, Perry is the most likable of the candidates; he passes my “sit down and have a beer with him” test. And I like someone who can laugh at himself, it shows a core of confidence, unlike thin-skinned types like Obama.
Policy-wise, I think he’s still the closest to my own opinions. I just wish he hadn’t shot himself in both feet at the debates.
It is inconceivable that any liberal/statist/elitist could ever poke fun at one’s self. That’s just not in their makeup. Kudos to Perry for doing so – it humanizes him.
Now, poking fun at “the enemy” (as the Republican Party is referred to by several Democraps, including dear leader) or a rival, now that’s fair game because each individual liberal/statist/elitist knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that only a person as smart as him/herself is ever good enough to “cast the first stone,” so to speak.
And BTW, Nancy, check that out. It refers to an incident in your favorite word, the Word (which, by my count, is two words but I’ve never assumed you could count), and is seemingly very apropos to this conversation.
I like Rick Perry way more now since the brain freeze moment and how he handled it.
What’s a minor brain fart when you have a president who thnks we have 57 states and refuses to honor the flag? The only reason for it is that Obhammud has done so much damage knowing where to start to try to correct it is a book-length topic.
@Carlos: man, are you spot-on! My brother in law is liberal to the core, sure he is right (at all costs), and has never been able or willing to just relax and laugh at himself (or even other liberals!).
I really like Perry’s ad. Like Phineas said, it shows a core of confidence that isn’t shaken by a minor fumble (as opposed to major blunders by the current Bumbler-In-Chief).
(I should call it more than “bumbling.” He lets a little ooze of His disdain leak out. Letting it leak is not the main prob–HAVING it is!!)
Lets see…. Dear Leader visited the “Asian” country of Hawaii, right before visiting the “English” embassy in one of our fifty-seven states, saluting all the “Corpse-men, celebrating his Musli er Christian faith by bowing to every muslim dictator on the planet, riding a girls bike in skinny jeans, throwing the first pitch like my great grandmother, and pissing on the pledge of allegiance. The Great Obonzo consistently proves that he is the smartest being, and the greatest orator to ever occupy the Whitehouse. I’ll take Perry and his little brain fart over that bag of stupid gas anytime.