Blood in the Water

O' course I am addressin' the Texan elephant in the room first! Ok. Calm down. Sheesh.

For those o' ye that are fans o' Perry, ye might wanna be thinkin' about findin' a secondary candidate. The CNBC debate was about as interestin' as the others (since ye can remember how excitin' the last couple dozen were) so the media jumped on the first person that stepped outta line. For those o' ye who didn't watch the debate, this is what I'm talkin' about.

Every bit o' news I've seen on this is all doom and gloom for Perry. Here are, and I'm quotin' here, the actual phrases other news agencies are usin' to describe this.

He provides what may be the most painful, cringe-inducing slip-up in debate history

 'Oops'—Worst Self-Inflicted Wound in Debate History?

 

Ok, I understand that a President should know his facts, but after lookin' at everythin', I've come to the conclusion that it's not as bad as the media is makin' it out to be. Some people seem to forget that candidates are human and human and human (etc.). Fortunately, for ye Perry lovers, he says he isn't quittin' the race and has done a fair amount o' damage control.

 With the mass o' scandals, it seems to be anyone's game. The only people that are getting through this vettin' process relatively unscathed are Romney, Paul and Huntsman. Santorum is a walkin' gaffe, just so we are clear (if ye payed attention to him, which I'm sure you have, he has said that he'd "die" to ban gay marriage and wants a war with China). So which one of these candidates will be surgin' to the top of the polls?

 Gingrich.

No, that was not a typo. Both the polls and some stories are seein' the beginnin' of a Gingrich boom. 

So there is your new flavor of the month (or week? Hell, I don't know). Anywho, that's it for me. It's Thursday and if anyone even remotely knows who I am, they know what that means...

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