Rick Perry's 'truly bizarre' speech: Was he drunk?

Maybe he is just incompetent and stupid.

For those who are not students of history, please take a look at how things were during the middle of the 19th century. Our country had little in the way of laws regulating business and we had things like company towns where people were virtually enslaved to the company stores, massive pollution in and around manufacturing cities, no 40-hour work week, no health care, and no paid vacations. If you were lucky you might get Sundays off. There were robber barons and land speculators. People had little in the way of protection against unscrupulous business practices. From the 1790’s there were four depressions prior to the Great Depression of 1929.

Perry's own statements seem to say that this is what he is wanting for our country. Repeal this, do away with agency that is suppose to protect consumers, the environment or the elderly and less fortunate.

Is this the kind of country we want for ourselves? It this the kind of country we want for our descendants? Before you vote please take the time to really learn about the candidates you plan on voting for and what their vision is for this country.

How did perry get elected governor of Texas? I don't think I have ever seen a post from a Texan that likes perry. Who voted for him?

Found it, watched it, I'm from Texas and he never showed that side in public before! We all knew he was an idiot before, now this confirms it. Drunk on his a..
Like the rodeo clown idea. he actually might be good at that.

cain is a pervert, paul is searching for his dentures in the trash, mittens is a mormon (god created adam and eve...NOT adam and EVE AND EVE AND EVE AND EVE), and now this swingin' #$%$ who from the looks of things turns into a homosexual when he drinks. great feild, GOP! excellent.

Maybe he inhaled too much hairspray! It's not as if we didn't already know that he's intellectually challenged (check out his transcripts from Texas Agriculture & Military college)....
Could it be that he's finally beginning to realize that he doesn't stand a chance in the election?
Only his hairdresser knows for sure!

Perry is simply not very bright. Actually being drunk might have helped.

I live in Texas, Rick Perry make me ashame being a texan. This fool was DRUNK but! it's ok because he is Rick Perry with the less credibility than any of the Presidential hopefuls.

Perry could be one of those persons who is likeable and only makes sense when he is blasted. He could be the American Boris Yeltsin. Instead of president give him a cabinet position as jester or official rodeo clown. No power, but fun to watch.Add Bachmann and you got a Washington version of "The Honeymooners"

The GOP has no credible candidates. They seem to all be whack jobs. Looks like the runaway winner will be "none of the above".

Put a fork in all the Repub candidates.
Obama landslide.

If this keeps up..... Obama won't have any opponents.

Drunk I doubt. His handlers would have seen it and benched him due to a virus or some other illness. More likely the strain of trying to be something he cannot be, intelligent, has finally caught up to him.

He isn't drunk. He's STUPID.

Perry is every Taxpayers worst nightmare. His "grease my palm" Politics only shows that he is intellectualy limited and would just be another good ol' boy in D.C. We've got enough of them. Dumb is as dumb does. D.C. Dolts

I am a native Texan and here are a few things about Rick Perry:
Questions have arisen about Perry’s actions surrounding the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham in 2004. Please take time to look into "The Texas Innocents Project", to date 44 individuals have been exonerated through their efforts, many who were sitting on Death Row. Yet Perry is sure that no innocent individuals were executed here in Texas.
Thanks to Perry the schools here are ranked 47th and there is a multi-billion dollar deficit (approximately $4-billion) in the state's educational system that his policies created. He was
warned by the then Republican State Comptroller 5-years ago that his tax cuts were going to cause the problem that Texas schools are going through right now. Most local school districts are facing huge budget deficits some in the multi-million dollar range and are laying off staff and teachers and most will have to raise local property taxes just to cover these shortfalls. So much for Perry's statement he lowered taxes here in Texas.
There is a looming $27-billion deficit due next year for the state's budget that is not being talked about nationally but we in Texas are painfully aware of it. Back in April Perry took just under $28-billion in Federal stimulus money of that $6.4-billion was used to help pay this years state deficit. This and the redirection of the $4-billion from Texas education funds allowed the $9.1-billion State Rainy Day Fund, that Rick Perry controls, to go untouched.
As for job creation here in Texas, take a long look at the types of jobs that Perry claims to have "created". For the most part these hare minimum wage or low wage jobs and many are part-time with little or no benefits. Texas has the highest number of people on food stamps. Companies are moving to Texas because of tax breaks and because Texas is a right-to-work state. He is not creating new jobs merely shifting jobs from other states. All of these things were in place before Perry took office.
He tried to take private land here through eminent domain so that a Spanish company, Cintra could build the Trans-Texas Corridor, a super transportation system that has since been canceled when a number if issues arose about the project.
More and more of the new highways build here in Texas are toll-roads, one the latest is the State Highway 121 project in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, another controversial tollroad project involving Cintra. Cintra would have the right to collect tolls on the road for 50-years. A lot of questions were raised when it came out that the North Texas Tollway Authority was preventing from bidding on this project. A number of unanswered questions about Perry's relationship with Cintra are surfacing now and I am sure will require answers during the presidential campaign.
A lot of questions are being raised during the debates about Perry's motives regarding the controversial decision to require 6th-grade girls to be vaccinated for HPV. Many of these questions centered on his financial relationship with Merck. And now there are questions being raised about his relationship with Novartis Pharmaceuticals another drug-manufacturer that has contributed heavily to the Republican Governors Association, a major backer of Rick Perry's campaigns.Check out the web page "Crony Capitalism" at info dot tpj dot org/reports/pdf/PerryRGACrossOver dot pdf
These are just a few issues that are being raised during the vetting process and it is doubtful that he will be able to survive the scrutiny of the national press much longer. As we in Texas have found out, Rick Perry is not who he purports to be. Please take the time to really learn about him before you make up your mind.

The Video link is gone, but you can find the speech by doing a simple search for "Rick Perry" Manchester Video. It's worth a look. Not only is he unbelievably incoherent and goofy, he finally lets his effeminate side out in public. If this goes viral, his campaign (and possibly his political career) is over.

The repugs are going to subject us to 12 months of these sad and scary clowns, it should spell the end of their legitamacy & party, if people are paying attention--

He would not be the first Texas governor that gets drunk. I recall a former governor that may have lost lots`of brain cells.

This guy is a killer, not a church goer as he painted himself: as a governor, he executed the father of three small children in 2004 for the crime he did not commited. Perry insisted his victim deliberately set the house on fire to kill his own children, but the fire was proven to be accidental. Perry killed the man anyway, then fired his three investigating board officers for bringing out the truth. Hope this stupid rick perry will die in a fire.