A whole bunch of bad jokes….nearly as bad as his pathetic run for the GOP nomination

Put this wounded dog out of his misery and end his embarassing campaign already!!!

OOPS!!!

Yeah…..that was funny!

Righties……..BWAHAHAHHHAHAHHAAH!!!

A dummy whose vacation destination named n*gger-head? I can see why he’d flee the democratic party and contently finds home at the tea party

actually, not bad. he should aim for an acting career

If you didn’t find this funny regardless of your party you are an idiot.  

lol ..usually presidential candidates start making fun of themselves after they have already lost, like Gore and Dole.

Same with Perry.  :)

I thought the same thing.  

Well I DID find his debate performance to be HILARIOUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, so don’t worry…I DO have a sense of humor!  LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have to give it to Perry, he did a great job on Letterman.

His debate performance was funny but so was this top ten.  

I agree, good job on Letterman but a bad job preparing for debates.  

LOL

Good sport… Good sport! Very much appreciated.

He’s actually far more likable that the monster-clown Cain.

He’s likeable enough

Very true. And I guess McCain started the trend of making fun of oneself before it’s official, appearing on SNL the weekend before the election.

Perry is not an actor per se yet he did a very very good job reading those lines – quite telling.  It is not at all easy to deliver lines that well on national tv.  The average person would seem very amateurish doing it. 

Perry is a good natural actor he is just not good at memorizing his script.  With his hair, face and talent you can expect to see lots of Rick on FOX after the primary.  I even predict a Palinesque tee vee career.

lol it was funny, but why does he dance around at times

His delivery reminded me of the late Paul Lynde.

Likeable enough, that’s how we got Bush, lets shoot for smart enough.

That was funny. Perry did a good job.

I felt like I was watching an audition for “Mama Mia”.

Hahahahahahahahahfuckyou.

That’s a good assessment.

I am more curious to find out how a politician can be so unprepared for a Presidential debate.

That stings.

You know, I just can’t see it. Perhaps, it is because I have watched him on local news and at various events locally for almost two decades. He wears as badly as a J.C. Penney’s suit.

Now that you mention Lynde I can see that a little….

Actually my words were a play on what Obama told Clinton during one of the debates…..and if we are going for smart enough then Huntsman would be in the lead in the GOP.    

I agree!!

What a joke (literally). 

I think Republicons are hoping to see more of the “relaxed” Perry in the future!! He deserves some credit for his performance on Letterman… I’ve seen other politicians do worse!!

next he will be saying we have 57 states like some other idiot that was voted in as our president by bigger idiots

I had that same discussion with someone who has lived in Texas for a long time.   She sees him just like you and I see him in a different way.

I’ve seen professional actors do a lot worse than he did on Letterman.      I have never seen any Presidential contender in a Presidential debate do worse however.

Ah, the spin-master has arrived

The difference was one was on the last stop of a campaign rally and was misspoken. The other was trying to prove his political savy and even given the chance couldnt save himself actually the commentator saved him he was forgetting the second also

He shoulda showed up drunk.

Someone you could have a beer with!

LOL

uh, no you dont, sorry.

having contempt is not the same thing as having a sense of humor.

oh, you so got him!

you have the wit of a modern noel coward!

Best preformance of Perry I ever saw! Makes you have to admire the guy.He’s willing to poke fun at himself. This will probably help him a great deal
.It was almost felt like for a moment when Nixon said “Sock it to me?” on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.
 
The “I Wanted to help take the heat off of Herman Cain…” was the Funnnisrt line!

The jokes were no good…Bieber is untouchable…he’s the man. He’s gonna stay down to earth and be the next Bono.

Numbers 10 and 4 were my favorites!! =)

I agree, Perry made it quite clear he has no clue how to stay focused during a debate!!

Well, Perry sucks as a contender for POTUS. Maybe he’ll do better pursuing a career in late night stand-up.

I don’t see it as a focus issue so much as a preparation issue.  I don’t think he is being prepared right

In my opinion, the “focus” issue had to do with him not remembering the three agencies to eliminate… he knew the three but he seemed to let his mind wander from the suggestions by the other candidates!!

As for him not being prepared, I totally agree!!

At the very least, the handler supplying Perry the notes on his podium concerning the three agencies to be eliminated, should have had them in bold type so he could have looked down right away and got back on track!! I blame his handlers more than Perry!!

I will forgive Rick Perry’s temporary brain-freeze, because he had the humility and sense of humor to admit that he was only human, prone to gaffes.

If only the King and Emperor had so much humility and sense of humor!!

But His gaffes came repeatedly, time after time, ignored by the adoring, slobbering and slavish left-wing media, so it is all right to claim that the Union consist of 57 States, the men in uniform who defend it are cadavers (for those who are blind or politically correct “CORPSEMEN”) but of course it is OK because He did not say it in the language of millions: AUSTRIAN.

One deserve adoration, the other deserve derision.

Only the sane and reasonable know which is which. 

The difference was that this one the other night was CHARACTERISTIC (that is, it typifies the candidate, or so goes the consensus) and the one by Obama back in 2008 has proved out to be NOT characteristic.

What’s interesting about the wingers spinning the 57 states thing is that they have to go back over 3 years to find a stumble. By this far into his first term, there were entire websites set up to catch the DAILY gaffes by the younger Bush. The consensus impression – consensus not just in the general population, not just from the sliver of media that wingers mythologise as controlling the entire media, but actually in the GOP base – is that this guy would outdo the younger Bush in terms of gaffe rate; there could be websites set up to follow his gaffes and stumbles on an HOURLY or even more frequent rate. And that makes all of America, ALL of us, look like dumb asses for voting him into office. 

Meanwhile, you could walk through a comparable period in the first term of any U.S. president you choose, going back as far as you want (back to the dawn of the Age of Presidential Spin, to 1981, when the Reagan White House press communications office first began the now embedded tradition of the White House trying to control news cycles, or back even further, pointless as that would be), and you simply would not find a president with a higher ratio of thoughtful, insightful comments to gaffes.

The point is: no one, no human being with a bank of cameras and recorders aimed at him and stuck in his face on an hourly, daily basis, day after day, news cycle after news cycle, for months, for almost 3 years in this case, 4 if you go back and include the 2008 campaign, without being caught making gaffes. But in the case of Perry, it’s taken him just a few months to build up a virtual library of gaffes, with no or almost no off-setting intelligence being shown, whereas with Obama, sure we’ve had gaffes, maybe dozens of them by now, but only a few even approaching the level Perry issues on a daily basis, and, as someone pointed out above, none of them as comic as what Perry does routinely.

The 57 states gaffe is comparable to the birther theme: it’s all they got, so they keep trotting it out.

1.  You try to think while Marcus Bachmann is giving you head.

Too late: Josh Brolin already has all those roles sewn up.

as someone who does quite a bit of public speaking, truth is, if you know the material well, you may forget your talking point, but you are able to pull out an alternative when these moments, inevitably, happen.

Still, self-deprecating humor always work, wonder why he chose Letterman..

Good point. By then McCain had at least one eye on what he was going to say in his concession speech and how he was going to compose himself over the rest of his career.

Certainly Obama saw that McCain was thinking along these lines, even back to the Al Smith dinner, where everyone dresses up in tails and white bow ties in tribute to the great New York populist. At that dinner, McCain’s comic timing was way better than Obama’s, and whereas Obama’s jokes showed some hubris, McCain’s mostly benefited from the sad clown position (I’m not being critical; it’s the best place to come from for comedy: self-depredation), and that was all enabled by McCain’s willingness to recognize he wasn’t going to win – a very mature and adult mind set.

And out of all that poise, Obama detected the possibility that McCain might be willing to consider using his remaining post-candidate years in politics for good, to assist the president in trying to bring the country together in a time of great crisis and over-heated partisanship (like Wendell Wilkie did following his loss to FDR in 1940). But to do so meant that McCain would be giving up his historical supporters and fellow rich friends, so it required a great personal sacrifice – one Wilkie was prepared to make but McCain was not. Instead, McCain became just about as pointlessly nasty and territorial as our own Nobits, yelling at the hippies while seated on his lawn mower.

Too bad: it would have been interesting to see. 

Always easier to relax once the competition is over and you’re just working out how to exit as gracefully as possible.

As it’s turning out, yes: Creepy Cain started out looking like Shakespeare’s Falstaff, hale fellow well met glad-handing everyone on a book tour while only winking at the idea he was running for president. But as time has passed, it’s become clear he’s a Koch brothers funded tool, a con man, an habitual misogynist, a bully and a pervert. 

I think the RNC was happy to have him there for the general election as someone who “almost” or “could have” won, an exhibit to allow them to argue that they are not anti-black, and maybe even cut into Obama’s black and other ethnic minority support somewhat – but he’s become a huge liability, showing that the R brand is sullied and sick, so whatever positive value he might otherwise have provided is now going to be a distinct negative in the general. He now stands not just for harassing and assaulting women, but intimidating any women who call him out for it. It’s become deeply, deeply ugly.

He’s not quick enough on his feet and his gaffes are simply not outrageously provocative enough. Palin has a gift for detecting and articulating Tea Party thinking; Perry tends too often to say things that show that he actually has a real heart. She is more shrewd than he is, although he is more ruthless than she.

Bear in mind he was reading off of cue cards, and that he’d rehearsed doing just that. Most actors who appear on Letterman don’t bother to rehearse, because for them it’s a day off from work and they just want to clown around. This was IMPORTANT to Perry, because he’s trying to retrieve dignity by appearing to laugh at himself. 

i love him he gets my vote anything is better than what we have