I can’t remember the title to this post......

To be fair, I did not watch the whole debate on Wednesday. The first 30 minutes was enough for me to shut the television off and walk away. I had no idea why everyone was talking about Rick Perry until I forced myself to finish the debate to see what all the comments were about. This spared Rick Perry a good day of criticism by me, before I began to really ask myself, why? Why is Rick Perry still running, how was he ever front runner, and how is he still taken seriously? 

Everyone makes mistakes. This is a concept I understand all too well. Everyone has made a comment about something to someone and later realized, wow did I really say that? It happens to the best of us. All we can say is dust off the embarrassment, get back up, jump back in and make up for it with a stunning next performance.

Now, Rick Perry has not seemed to grasp the concept of making up for his stupidity, and instead reinforces his stupidity. 

http://youtu.be/b8jcis-0dr8 (CNBC interview with George Stephanopoulos... Everybody makes mistakes).

Why am I now calling Rick Perry’s screw ups stupidity and not mistakes? 

Mistakes are made once or twice, within a couple months. Some mistakes are bigger than others. However, in the past two weeks Rick Perry is batting two for two. He first acted outrageous and out of control during his speech in New Hampshire making me believe he couldn't top that with anything more unprofessional. Low and behold he proved me wrong!

When I plan a speech in front of class, I practice it a few times, have some notes, know exactly what I want to say. Now, a debate is a little more challenging, not knowing what exactly is going to be asked and what is need to be said. However, the concept, of practicing for a debate is very similar to practicing a speech. you must memorize the main topics that you believe and practice the key points to your beliefs, or in Rick Perry’s case, his federal government reform ideas.

We all know the tax plans, health care plans and plans to regulate the federal government are not written by the candidates. They have advisers and staff to help with the expressing of their ideas. I am not saying the ideas are not the candidates but they are expressed by someone who knows the candidates ideas. This is understandable. The candidate has the ideas and knows what they need to do to fix the government (in theory), and they pay someone to write them into a plan that someone may actually want to believe in. 

In college, if someone writes a paper for someone else to hand in, that person should really read the paper before handing it in, to know what exactly their “stance” really is and knows answers to questions a teacher may ask. In politics you would think this same idea would apply. For Rick Perry apparently not. 

How can a politician forget the third federal agency they want to shut down? If it would really impact the United States and help job creation, it should be important enough to remember. The more shocking thing, is one of the other candidates says in a joking manner, “the EPA” is the third agency and Rick Perry laughs out a “yeah”, although really meaning, no!

This was not a laughing matter, although Rick Perry seemed to think it was. I do not want my president to say, ‘I am going to shut down three federal agencies that are killing jobs’ and only know two of them and randomly pick the third by the next one that pops to mind. 

The question is now, was this a "death blow" to Rick Perry's campaign? Well have to see.

So what have I learned from this debate and Rick Perry’s stupidity? Be sure to watch the whole debate next time, you never know when you’ll miss a good laugh.