Rick Perry Flubs Legal Voting Age During NH Speech
- Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:13pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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While speaking to a crowd of eligible voters during a campaign appearance at a New Hampshire college on Tuesday, GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry made a curious error. It wasn’t as serious as the accusations that have been waged against fellow Republican candidate Herman Cain — sexual harassment and infidelity — but it was embarrassing nonetheless.
The L.A. Times reports on the newest addition to the growing list of Perry’s speaking blunders:
“Perry, who during a recent Republican presidential debate struggled for nearly a minute to remember the third agency on a list of three federal departments that he said he wanted to eliminate, slipped up just as he was wrapping up his prepared remarks at his third of four events in the Granite State.
‘Those of you that will be 21 by Nov. 12th, I ask for your support and your vote,’ Perry said to a crowd that included college students.
‘Those of you who won’t be — just work hard — because you are going to inherit this and you’re counting on us to get this right. The idea that you’re looking at a $15-trillion debt, that you’re looking at entitlement programs that will not be there for you if we continue on this path, is not fair to you and it’s not right.’
The minimum voting age in the United States is 18.”
Aside from Perry’s overt error on the legal voting age, no one is quite sure what’s happening on the date he mentioned. The general election is set for Nov. 6, 2012, and New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary is on Jan. 10. He made these comments while speaking at Saint Anselm College.
The Associated Press reports that the flub caused some whispers in the crowd.
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Comments (82)
psadie
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:26pmThe race narrows each day. Perry needs to pack it in as should Cain, Bachmann, Santorum, and Huntsman.
Report Post »waking_giant
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:33pmI wouldn’t vote my governor Rick Perry in as a dog catcher but since when did misspeaking become a flub.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:53pmHe was thinking about the drinking age.
Report Post »kreese
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:16amMuch of this started with Bubba. The MSM in their quest not to use the word “lie”, simply said he misspoke!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:20pmWell, you know that the Lefty MSM will run this story with headlines. Am so sure the New York Times will have it and enable their Lefty readers to excoriate not only Perry but ALL conservatives – they love articles that encourage Republican Character Assassination comments ! Not that the Lefty MSM ever mentions any of the Obama present flubs or his mysterious past ….
Report Post »UNBOTHERED
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 11:05amOh Really BARBEER2,
Report Post »And what kinds of articles does the Blaze like.
garyM
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 7:20pmI don’t think it matters, most people under 25 don‘t either don’t vote or have enough sense to vote!
Report Post »KYHighlander
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 8:52pmHe probably just don’t want the 18 – 20 vote as they are mostly flakes anyway.
Report Post »kreese
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:22amThe voting age should be 21. Look at the politics in these college towns. The professors “brainwash” these young mushbrains, then they go vote. Salt Lake City is a good example, when you compare it to the rest of Utah.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 6:58pmSo what.
Report Post »headbtweenlegs
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 6:31pmPerry..is done..Cain is done…Who’s next?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:12pmDepends upon who is a strong conservative candidate. The Far Left which now controls the Democrat Party continues its Character Assassination Policy. This is the New 60′s : political death by character assassination by the Left ! Oswald spent time in The USSR…..hmmmmm…..
Report Post »timeout
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 6:18pmyou know i am so pleased that none of you never make any mistakes. what the hell? the voting age should be 21 not 18, and he has made more sense than many others. not one of these candidates has NOT “flubbed”. i am totally amazed at how small minded people are….
Report Post »Lynne484
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 6:36pmAMEN. You have to be very bright to be a fighter pilot. I wonder how many of his critics speak well in front of an audience? It’s his consistency of beliefs and love of America that I pay attention to. And, while I’m at it, it‘s a crock that he couldn’t debate Obama. Perry has principles, BO has mindless rhetoric. Perry has heart, BO has ideology. Perry would wipe the floor with BO, with God’s help.
Report Post »LOJ
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:48pmYou know the guy is handsome, he is charismatic, hes created alot of jobs and oppportunities for Texas, and (hes is a pilot too,) but you wonder if his mind is somewhere else when he is speaking to a crowd.
Report Post »gooeylewie
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:32pmwell, Democrats what everyone to believe that people should be considered children until 26…
– Perhaps they shouldn’t be able to vote then either.
Report Post »BC1010
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:27pmFREE OBAMA DOLL
LOOK At my picture
Report Post »BC1010
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:30pmyes its a turd
Report Post »jptrucker
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:01pmSick ! But damn funny !!!
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:25pmGoodnight Perry. I‘m glad I didn’t send you my moolah.
Report Post »spudwhite
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:23pmPerry should go back to Texas and be Governor and stop trying to be anything more than that, there’s plenty of crime he needs to address there especially this type–
Report Post »http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Zeta-soldiers-launched-Mexico-style-attack-in-2283370.php
Bumr50
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:21pm“I don’t like the drugs, but the drugs like me.”
Report Post »geonj
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:21pmGod forbid a politician mispeaks. it doesn’t make them stoopid (sic), it makes them human. but the left, and now apparently the blaze, are using these errors as weapons. it all started with the mispelling of potato, or is it potatoe?. or does it really matter? i am so sick of the vitriol.
Report Post »Lynne484
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 6:39pmI too am noticing that the Blaze is biased. No mention of the big news: Sheriff Joe has endorsed Perry and is campaigning for him in NH. No two people in America know the realities of securing our border more than Perry and Sheriff Joe! No mention of that, just this BS of misspeaking!
Report Post »jptrucker
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:04pmEven the right is trying to destroy every one but Robama.They will hand the white house to Odumbo for four more years. I’m sick to death of it.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 5:36pmIs is getting pretty old!
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:09pmImmivason Rick
It really is an important issue, for people like Immivasion Rick and Immivasion Newt do not believe in protecting national sovereignty.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:01pmJust don‘t think Rick’s got the stuff for POTUT; that is compared to a few others in the line-up. I’d vote for him against Obama, of course.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:55pmIt is disturbing to me that we Americans would even consider electing officials..especially career politicians..who don’t even know the most basic of laws. You can throw it off as a teleprompter error, yet even that is no excuse. B-bye Perry.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:16pmTrue – True Perry is a nother carrer politician but I checked at Gove. org and he didn’t make the mistake Obama made when he filled out his application to run fro President. Check it out – Obama wrote in occasionally for the blank spot by Sex.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:22pmLet’s see … 57 states, corpsemen (as in dead), seeing dead veterans on Memorial Day …on and on .. I am tired of every little Republican flub being a “deal breaker” and Obama’s ignored … don’t forget all we have to do to end the energy crisis is “inflate our tires” .. and what about giving the kids a “breathalizer”. I would say any of the R candidates are better than the FOOL in the White House right now.
TEA!
Report Post »zorro
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:30pmNov 12th is election day. Homeboy is assuming he has the nomination. But he won’t. You have silly Tea Partiers on one hand who want…well they don’t know who they want. They‘re looking for the perfect candidate which doesn’t exist. Then you have the Republican establishment and liberals on the other cheering for Romney (albeit for different reasons). God forbid we vote for a guy with common sense, right?
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:39pmThere was an interesting story I’ve heard about Reagan, where he was addressing the nation and to the horror of the speechwriters, the wrong speech was loaded into the teleprompter. Reagan did the smart thing. He ignored the teleprompter and just went off his notes.
Report Post »Just a little smarts and common sense is all it should take when giving speeches. If I were in charge of the teleprompter, I’d be tempted to load a Shakespearean monologue just to see if Obama would attempt to read that.
CatB
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 7:31pm@Zorro .. Go vote on the 12th … .. This “silly” TEA Party member will vote on the real election day… anyone who is a DemocRAT feel free to vote on the 12th. (is ZORRO smarter than a TEA Party member — NO!)
TEA!
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:49pmC’mon Rick, it’s time to come home and finish out your term as Governor. I know the dream of being the First Lady has gone down toilet and will be hard for Anita to accept, but she’ll get over it. Told y’all. It’s done and over with.
Report Post »Lynne484
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:06pmWell YISKA8, thank God YOU’RE perfect. It’s idiots like you who look at soundbites, not substance.
Report Post »PHILIPZ13 was there and cared about what Perry’s policies and principles are, not a slip of the tongue. I can guarantee Rick Perry, who served America as a fighter pilot, has more brains than you do, and would never diss our military like Newt did on O’Reilly last night. When asked if he’d put National Guard on the border, he said: “I would be willing to reinforce, there’s a profound reason to not get the military too close to the drug dealing because of its enormous potential for corruption.” Really? Our troops can‘t be trusted too close to drugs and drug lords because they’re easily corrupted!
txn4justice
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:46pmThe current WH couple seem pretty unhappy.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:46pmTexas…. come on now – you can do better than this.
Remember folks – Rick worked on the Al Gore election campaign…. ’nuff said.
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:59pmHe must have taken to drinking and anti-anxiety pills or something. I barely recognize his demeanor on the stage anymore. This Texan is embarrassed and though I know the current President is a complete nightmare, and poorly overeducated, I expect leaps and bounds above the performance we’re getting from our current Governor. At least drop out of the race with some respect and a decent showing and admit there are better candidates in the field for the Presidency. Enough already.
Report Post »Lynne484
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 6:43pmNo, not “nuff said”. As Churchill said (paraphrased): If you aren‘t a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you aren‘t a conservative when you’re older, you have no brain.
Report Post »When he was helping Gore, Gore was not the rampaging lib he is now. Have you never made mistakes, grown…?
YoungBloodNews
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:42pmMan, Perry has a brain circuit loose or something lately – is he okay?
Report Post »Red Meat
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:45pmPerry’s fine. I worry about the Blaze moving away from reporting UFO’s and how Cain got screwed.
Report Post »YoungBloodNews
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:51pmI hope so, that vid a while back where he seemed drunk was worrying. Then the stumbling during the second to last big debate (forgetting his third point).
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:54pmIn Texas he is known as governor good hair…… Nuff said.
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:08pm@Detroit Paperboy
Report Post »He does gave good hair, but‘s I’d add some hair gel or something. He’s got that southern smirk that the women love. And he has been a decent Governor, with a major foul up here and there, but it’s too late. He‘s just not ready for the Presidency based on what I’ve seen. With these kind of brainfarts and performances I‘m starting to question how he’s managed to run my sweet Texas for so long. It must be the dedicated staff and colleagues doing the actual work.
YoungBloodNews
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:11pmWell the good news: Buddy Roemer’s running for Prez. lololol
David Duke can’t be far behind ;)
Report Post »texrubarts
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 12:10amGov. Perry is A-OK…. He is very smart – just because he slips up during these thousands of speeches he gives a day – does NOT mean he is stupid!!! Give me a break. I LOVE Perry but I think Newt will make a better president but Perry can be VP….
Newt/Perry 2012
Report Post »wbhpro
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:39pmI’m glad no one at the LA times ever makes a mistake.
Report Post »Libertarian
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:41pmPerry is Bush III, this country should not adhere to dynasties. lol
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:24pmYeah, sometimes they leave their red star clad baret at home.
Report Post »philipz13
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:37pmyeah i am a freshmen at Saint Anselm College where the town hall meeting occurred. I don’t understand why this is so important, i cared more about the policy issues Perry brought up, then this simple flub. This was the first thing the press at the meeting asked me and other college students, and none of us college kids cared about the flub that much, it was a very slight issue. We cared what Perry said about Israel, Immigration, and Foreign Aid then screwing up the voting age.
Report Post »texrubarts
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 12:15amGood response – I am VERY proud of you!!! You are an intelligent freshman!
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:36pmWho is messing with Perry’s index cards?
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:40pmI was going to say that Owebama’s people must be writing them. Come on Rick, Follow your gut.. like when you shot that coyote.. Just do it.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:54pmRick Perry – a .25 mouse gun in a .45 world.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:33pm57 States? Marines Corp(SE)? Four letter word “J-O-B”? Stand up… “Biden speaking to paralyzed man”.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:37pmSo you‘re saying we shouldn’t make fun of Perry for being an idiot because Obama is an idiot?
Why don’t you hold him to a higher standard?
Report Post »txn4justice
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:42pmYou nailed it!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:32pmI think the dudes got drinkin and votin mixed up…. But maybe not !!!
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:40pmHe was talking about after the election, to all the people who can drink there problems away. Others are just going to have to work hard. Its one of his Policies.
Report Post »DirtyDeeds
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:47pmWhen I was in college we would all party after voting. Election Day was one of the best party days and it only comes once every four years, needless to say my friends new and old still celebrate our ability to elect or leaders. Even though we have seen our twenties come and go and we are now vets of OIF and OEF, we always celebrate. I mean who doesn’t love yelling at the TV while drinking?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:00pmBut if Obama is re elected , its time for drinkin and signin up for cood stamps, govt housing, welfare checks, medicaid, disability, school breakfast,lunchand dinner,free cell phones, free day care , and thats just for the ILLEGALS…..
Report Post »txn4justice
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:38pmAnd free ipads for kindergartners.
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