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Constitution Mis-State: Rick Perry Mistakes Voting Age For 21 In New Hampshire Speech

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As if it matters anymore, former GOP frontrunner Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) committed a gaffe while speaking to a crowd at New Hampshire’s Saint Anselm’s College today.  Gov. Perry told the crowd, “Those who are going to be over 21 on November 12th, I ask for your support,” mistaking the United States’ voting age for 21, when it has, in fact, been constitutionally mandated at no younger than 18 since 1971.

A Perry campaign spokesman later said that the Governor “misspoke,” but maybe Governor Perry was actually referring to the drinking age. Given the state of this year’s Republican presidential field, he wouldn’t be that out of line in suggesting that voters knock back a few before they have to make that kind of a choice.

It’s also possible that Perry can only remember the first two amendments. The voting age doesn’t come up until #26.

Here’s video of Perry’s faux-pas, from The Associated Press:


(h/t ThinkProgress)

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  • Anonymous

    Ask Obama…the voting age is 21 in all 57 States…LOL

  • http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/630-E-Lovell-Dr-Troy-MI-48085/24509418_zpid/ Louisa Gismonde Calcaterra

    What’s the voting age in Uz-beki-beki-beki-stan you filthy ‘bagger??

    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    ahhhhhhhh….Tommy….the lounges of Vegas must surely miss you and your rapier wit…you and Nipsey  Russell…..Zeppo and Gummo Marx….Larry Storch….you know….the big names.
    .

  • Anonymous

    I love these gaffes.  Everyone makes them, but the far right & far left make way more out of it than is needed.  normal people just laugh it off as a stupid mistake, and move on….

  • Anonymous

    November 12th, 2012 is a Monday.

  • Henry Wood

    The Tea Klan likes to say the word “constitution” but they don’t know much about it.  Anytime they actually learn about anything that is in it, turns out they hate it.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Best Mediaite line of the year:

    “Given the state of this year’s Republican presidential field, he
    wouldn’t be that out of line in suggesting that voters knock back a few
    before they have to make that kind of a choice.”

    Good work, TC!

  • Anonymous

    Hey Perry, the presidential election is November 6th – NOT November 12th.
    Perry made TWO Oopsies    :)

  • Anonymous

    I would seem that I have hit a raw nerve…huh?…LOL

  • http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/630-E-Lovell-Dr-Troy-MI-48085/24509418_zpid/ Louisa Gismonde Calcaterra

    You wish, dahhhhhhhhhhh-ling!!!!!

    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Same as on E. Lovell Dr., genius.

  • http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/630-E-Lovell-Dr-Troy-MI-48085/24509418_zpid/ Louisa Gismonde Calcaterra

    :P

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Well, I was hoping a record number of Republicans would show up to vote 12 November. Now, you’ve ruined it.

  • Anonymous

    I am not voting for Perry. But the man is clearly worn out. Cut him a break here. Just stop with this already and let it go. He misspoke.

    Just like Obama did with the 57 states thing.

    Lefties who hammer Perry for this are idiots.

    Wingnuts who hammer Obama for the 57 states things are the same.

    America, you are healed.

  • Anonymous

    Rick Perry continues to crash and burn over and over on the national stage, I can’t believe anyone would still vote for him.

  • Anonymous

    I guess Rick doesn’t need the u21 votes. Good for him. 

  • Anonymous

    Good thing you don’t cover gaffes all the time, Tommy.  You’d have your hands full with Obama & Biden.  

  • Anonymous

    Please keep him in the race.  Let him win a caucus or something.  He is a ton of good comedy!

    Seriously, can the GOP really be serious with all these clowns?

  • Anonymous

    After pondering the Waffle Iron riots of 2011, skyfet still has questions:

    “Why buy one of this waffle iron things ? If you jokers iron a waffle, is in not then a pancake?”

    Ahhhhhh

  • Anonymous

    You can’t defend Perry so you have to change the subject to Obama and Biden. That’s just sad.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Yes the Republicans did find a male as dumb as Palin.

  • Anonymous

    Git r done lonestar3333!  You are really Rick Perry aren’t you?  You can’t hide behind a silly name like lonestar3333!  Your posts give you away Rick!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    I know that Perry has raised a lot of money and has numerous SuperPacs on his side, but for someone his age not to have know that the voting age changed from 21 to 18 in 1971 is a disaster. I remember complaining in 1967 being drafted at 19, but not being able to vote until 21. I can’t believe that he can come back. He was suppose to carry the South. Now it looks like Newt will win South Carolina and just maybe the one to carry that entire region. I can’t see Perry reviving his campaign. When donors see crap like this, they’ll just turn away.

  • Anonymous

    57, we never heard that before,… yet…… the “teas” give new gifts daily!

  • Anonymous

    And election day is the 6th a Tuesday, so if anyone wants to vote for Perry, just show up on the 12th.

  • OSTL

    Does your beard know about this infatuation of yours? It’s kind of creepy. Maybe e-mail him so we don’t have to see it? Just a suggestion.

  • OSTL

    Obama’s Senior Moment: ‘I’ll be turning 50 in a week.’

     

    Actually…he’ll be turning 50 in three weeks. His birthday is August 4, two days after the debt ceiling deadline. Senior moment?

    He messed up Malia’s birthday, too, calling her 13 when she was at the time 12 and still days away from becoming a teenager.

  • OSTL

    Didn’t obama forget where he was supposedly born, too?

  • Anonymous

    Now I’m sure I hit a nerve…LOL  Your turn sister…LOL

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Another GOP idiot heard from. It is FRIGHTENING to think that these people truly believe they can become the leaders of the free world, when they haven’t a clue about, well, ANYTHING!  I’m sure he”ll blame it on something stupid — like a democrat conspiracy. Baggers hate when the facts stand in the way of their version of the truth.  It would be funny if it weren’t so damn scary.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Nice try, lonestar – problem is that Perry says something dumb every time he opens his mouth.  You, on the other hand, are still trying to make a big deal about our President misspeaking about 57 states.

  • Anonymous

    “A Perry campaign spokesman later said that the Governor “misspoke,” but maybe Governor Perry was actually referring to the drinking age. Given the state of this year’s Republican presidential field, he wouldn’t be that out of line in suggesting that voters knock back a few before they have to make that kind of a choice.”

    Zing!!

  • Anonymous

    He must have knocked back a few before this speech as well.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    It’s been three years – try as you might, that bit just aint gonna catch on.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Between Boosh and Perry, I seriously wonder if there’s something in the water down in Texas that makes you stupid.

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t matter because by now everybody knows that Perry is not a realistic candidate.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry to burst your bubble but it already has…LOL

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    No, Bob means it’s never going to catch on outside of your bathroom. 

  • Anonymous

    Your gutter trash

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I’m sure some Republicans still believe he has a chance!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Bottom line, this is becoming sad… how do you not know the voting age in this country??

  • Anonymous

    But it’s OK.  The Repuglicult is still back in the 1950′s.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, and to think, Obama thought there were 57 states!

  • Anonymous

    Obama didn’t know that Alaska had been invaded by the Japanese, lol.  In fact, when he ordered the revocation of the 26 living Alaska State Guard Soliders, he had to have someone explain to him that they protected the US soil.  Didn’t matter, sadly, he still demanded that their pensions be cut off.  26 solders lost their income thanks to that slimeball.

  • Anonymous

    Honestly, I would vote for a dungbeetle before I would vote for Obama.

  • Anonymous

    As a Constitutionalist, I’ll vote for ANYONE but Obama.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    I agree Perry needs to get a teleprompter. He just acted like Bush in that video.  

  • Anonymous

    Don’t know.  I just remember Obama waiting on state to issue the Congressional Medal of Honor… not realizing that the soldier he was awarding it to was dead.  Shows how much he cares about soldiers.

  • Anonymous

    Better to amke that choice, than to re-elect Obama the Lame.

  • Anonymous

    It amazes me that democrats still think that the USA is a democracy.

  • Anonymous

    LOL, I think I remember that. It might have been about the time he was talking about all 57 states he was visiting,

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    And you have that right!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I don’t think it was mainland Alaska, wasn’t it a small island?? But he probably should have known that!!

    Who do you think would invade that little island today?? Russia??

  • Anonymous

    they can see Alaska from their homes in Russia

  • Anonymous

    but he’s already got the job…Perry on the other hand is painting rocks in Texas

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    =)

  • Anonymous

    Thats a really dumb statement.

  • Anonymous

    K. let me make one that is clearer.

    Obama has done such a piss poor job of running the Oval Office, that I would vote for a snail, a tree, or even a rock instead of him.  I think the tree would be better, the rock would be sounder, and the snail would be more honest than he has been so far.  He ignores anyone he disagrees with, throws temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way, and is a coward.  He has failed at everything he promised, been held in contempt by state courts, and put foreign businesses and interests over his own citizens.  He is single hadedly the reason for the worst of the recession, and his policies have put more people out of work than any other factor.  He shoudl not be imortalized in the history books as the first black presdient, but blasted into the history books as the first true failure in the history of the United States.

    Jack Nickolson was a better president in Mars Attacks! 

    If he is re-elected he will destroy our nation, if he hasn’t already!

    Did that clarify things?

  • Anonymous

    Yes, but I also have that responsibility to protect the nation I love FROM him!

  • Anonymous

    The voting age should be 21 so that there will be no dreamy eyed kids being swooned by the likes of a Liar like Obama.  That is how this Fool got elected, by Lying and BSing the young crowd, plus, some of the older fell for the idiots lies also.  Lets not let it happen again in 2012.  In 2008, Obama had no Record, no Accomplishments, Nothing.  In 2012, he now has a Record and it Sucks Bigtime!  He is nothing but a Pathetic Liar and Failure, has been his whole privilaged Affirmative Action life!  There is no doubt that any of the Conservatives can and will do a much better job than the failed Hussein.  Barry should run for Zimbabwe or some other third world country where he would be better suited to act as King, because he is nothing but a Failed Peon in America!

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  • Anonymous

    and that hawaii was asia…

  • Anonymous

    Only in Wingnutland, your current home.

  • Anonymous

    Instead of a theocracy, as most Republicans would have it. 

  • Anonymous

    And that tells us everything we need to know about you. (I’ll bet you voted for Bush, too.)

  • Anonymous

    Or that there are only 50 states and not 57.  It is amazing, isn’t it?

  • Anonymous

    What are you?…like 7 years old?…LOL

  • Anonymous

    Back to the 1950′s…oh no does this mean i’ll have be a negro again.

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