Another Oops: Perry Says Solar Company Solyndra Is A Country

[demmiblue]

Source: Think Progress




It’s getting a bit hard to keep track of Gov. Rick Perry’s “oops” moments on the campaign trail. In the last week alone, he’s fumbled the name of a Supreme Court justice, the number of judges on the court, and the age of eligibility to run for president (just as he didn’t know the voting age).

Perry has tumbled so low in the polls his comic displays of ignorance are beginning to avoid notice, but he made another doozy in Iowa yesterday, CNN reports:

While criticizing President Barack Obama for picking winners and losers in the energy industry, he bungled the name of the most famous energy company to go under despite government assistance.

“No greater example of it than this administration sending millions of dollars into the solar industry, and we lost that money,” Perry began. “I want to say it was over $500 million that went to the country Solynda.”

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/12/12/387232/another-oops-perry-says-solar-company-solyndra-is-a-country/

:snort:

[CJCRANE]

1. Liberate Solynda Now!

[Scuba]

2. Sarah Palin corrected him....

... he now "knows" it's actually a State in the country of Africa.

[JaneQPublic]

3. Haven't you heard?

Corporations are people AND countries now.

[demmiblue]

4. Planets, what about planets?

I give them Pluto (they won't know the difference).

[Terra Alta]

5. Another dumbass GOPuke governor from Texas

Perry must be taking speaking lessons from his predecessor..

What Texas needs is another Ann Richards.

[tanyev]

6. It shares a border with Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan.

Maybe even a president.

[demtenjeep]

7. they all suck

stupid

[DCBob]

8. Are Republicans born stupid and ignorant or is it an acquired thing?

Unbelievable.

[Tx4obama]

9. K&R n/t LOL :)

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. I think we've moved past "oops" to "holy shit!"

:eek:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Sounds like he's completely losing touch with reality

It's more than a memory problem, now. It's morphing into psychosis.

[sad sally]

12. I'd think the citizens of Texas would require a drug test of this man before he steps back into

the governor's mansion - the man's rudder ain't just in deep water, it sunk to the bottom.

CHRIS WALLACE: How do you respond to those who say, you know, I like Rick Perry, I like his values, but I worry, does he know enough to be president of the United States?

RICK PERRY: Well, obviously, I know there are nine Supreme Court justices. I don’t know how eight came out of my mouth. But the fact is, I can’t tell you, I don’t have memorized all of the Supreme Court judges.

Here’s what I do know, that when I put an individual on the Supreme Court just like I have done in Texas, we got nine Supreme Court justices in Texas: they will be strict constructionists. They won’t be activist judges.

That’s what Americans care about. They are not looking for a robot that can spit out the name of every Supreme Court justice, or someone that is going to be perfect in every way. They are looking for somebody who’s got values that are based with a deep rudder in the water.