Broadcast Email from Team Perry to any remaining Friends and Supporters:
Friend & Supporter,
We’ve all had human moments. President Obama is still trying to find all 57 states. Ronald Reagan got lost somewhere on the Pacific Highway in an answer to a debate question. Gerald Ford ate a tamale without removing the husk. And tonight Rick Perry forgot the third agency he wants to eliminate. Just goes to show there are too damn many federal agencies.
The governor said it best afterwards: “I’m glad I had my boots on, because I sure stepped in it tonight.”
While the media froths over this all too human moment, we thought we would take this opportunity to ask your help in doing something much more constructive: write us to let us know what federal agency you would most like to forget.
Is it the EPA and its job-killing zealots? The NLRB and its czar-like dictates? The edu-crats at the Department of Education who aim to control your local curriculum?
Send your answer to forgetmenot@rickperry.org, and if you are on twitter join us in using a new twitter hashtag: #forgetmenot. And, if you could, throw in a $5 contribution for every agency you would like to forget. We hope you have a long list. And we promise we will write down every last idea. So we don’t forget.
Still standing in our Boots,
Team Perry
I'm sure you're thinking, "Jeez, no one like a conservative to stand up and own his mistakes!"
But did you spot the weirdness in the email above?
In his anxiety to reassure us of his humanity, it looks like Team Perry had another couple "human moments"
First, Perry had explicitly ruled out the EPA as an agency on the chopping block last night.
Harwood: "Seriously, is EPA the one you were talking about?"
Perry: "No sir, no sir. We were talking about agencies of government. EPA needs to be rebuilt. No doubt about that."
I'm just as bewildered as Perry about whether he intended to say that EPA was not an agency of government, or whether it needed to be rebuilt and not killed.
Second, Perry already counted the Department of Education as target Agency #1. I don't know if that can be re-counted as #3 over again -- if that's what he meant by "Agency You'd Most Like to Forget".
“I would do away with the Education, Commerce and, let’s see,” Perry said, prompted one last time for an answer. “I can’t. The third one I can’t. Sorry. Oops.”
If I could have $5 for each Republican candidate I'd like to forget ...