Two out of three may not cut it with voters …
Yikes! During last night’s presidential debate, Republican candidate Rick Perry suffered a gaffe of epic proportions. The harder he tried to extricate himself, the worse it got.
The Texas governor, 61, suffered a mental block that went on for nearly a minute but seemed like an eternity, as he tried to recall the name of a federal agency that he will eliminate if elected to the highest office in the land.
He said, “It’s three government agencies when I get there that are gone: Commerce, Education and the um, what’s the third one there? Let’s see ….” The confusion continued and he never did come up with the Energy Department.
Perry lamented, “I’m glad I had my boots on, because I sure stepped in it tonight.”
The Perry campaign sent out a fund-raising appeal to supporters via e-mail after the debate. It included a bit of humor, “Tonight Rick Perry forgot the third agency he wants to eliminate. Just goes to show there are too damn many federal agencies.”
Check out the painful debate gaffe video below:
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