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Speaking in Manchester, New Hampshire, in the run-up to that state’s upcoming primary election, hopeful Republican nomination candidate, Texas governor Rick Perry, asked the youth of America to support him in his race for the White House. Well, some of the young people. To be specific, he called upon anyone who would turn 21 before November 12th of next year to cast their votes in his favor. Huh. First of all, the voting age in this country is still 18. I don’t think I’m being particularly controversial or kicking up too much dust in saying that. How mad are is everyone that I’m pushing such hot buttons? It’s also not unimportant that the election is on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, not Monday, November 12th. Now hey. Hey! Running for a major party nomination, much less the actual President Bartlettcy, is, based on the articles I’ve read in the Best Buy circular Parade magazine, is excruciating and exhausting. I’m sure that governor Rick Perry knows the actual voting age is 18 and that his sleep-deprived brain just slipped a widget and he said 21 but he meant 18 and he knows it’s 18 and also 18. And he was only off about election day by six days, which, you know, not bad, although it is still relevant insofar as being six days off only matters in grenades and horse shoes or whatever. But what I’m saying is that none of us, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF US, could pull off a campaign like this, and we are all only human, including Rick Perry, who is NOT, as some suspect, a Toupee Factory Security Team Cyborg. But here’s the thing about being human:
I don’t think you’re actually allowed to be THAT human when you want to be president. Like, we all understand what RIck Perry meant and we are all still going to vote for him as Vice President on the Herman Cain ticket (I believe yesterday when Herman Cain announced that he was “reassessing his candidacy” that he meant he was determining that he was DEFINITELY going to be President) but, you know, it is kind of a detail-oriented job. You kind of need to know what you’re saying. That way you don’t get up to the podium and announce “That is why we are going to war with China I MEAN IRAN I MEANT IRAN, YOU GUYS KNOW I MEANT IRAN AND NOT CHINA EVEN THOUGH I SAID CHINA WHOOOPS!” And then celebrating the Fourth of July in October. Boom! Those are pretty good examples of my point. MAYBE I SHOULD BE PRESIDENT, DID YOU EVER THINK OF THAT?! (Via GotchaMedia.)
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what other political topics do you guys want to discuss today?
Reproductive Rights: A Panel Discussion Moderated by Steve Winwood
here’s what the politichicks are discussing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rhMMMlOvc-c
Wait …Victoria Jackson is on EVERY episode of Politichicks? I thought she was just a guest on that one episode. Where’s the subscribe button???
i like them on facebook! and yes, not only is victoria jackson in every episode, but she performs a political and timely ukulele song for every one as well.
Ahh she’s an American treasure.
she’s gross
He’s still running? Somebody give him a squirrel to chase or something.
A Rick Perry presidency would finally institute that sacred of all furniture-selling holidays: Christmas in July
I wonder how many of the 51 states he’ll win in the primaries.
All 49!
As Herman Cain’s future running mate, he was obviously referring to the voting age for the November 12th elections in Ubeki-beki-beki-bekistan.
He didn’t think the voting age is 21, he meant that he doesn’t want anybody younger than 21 voting for him. Somehow, I doubt that’s something he really needs to worry about anyway.
He forgets a lot.
I’m a professor of political science and… this makes my head hurt. A lot.
I’m a regular idiot and this also makes my head hurt.
Could you imagine him in the Oval Office? He’ll hit the “red button” and send out a nuclear warhead when he meant to hit the intercom button for his secretary.
In his defense, at that point, I would put most of the blame on the person who designed the “red button” to be on the President’s desk, right next to the intercom button.
Hennimoooooooooore!!!!!
Mitchell and Webb! Yes. I like it when they get all preachy about bad stuff. Like the Homeopathy Accident and Emergency room sketch. Cheese-petrol robot is the best though.
“i thought it was my Dominoes Pizza app…………..oops.”
He was probably just thinking of the legal driving age.
Wrong again, 18 is the legal driving age. 21 is the age when you can legally run red lights.
Is it really driving if you can’t run red lights?
God I hate me some Rick Perry. He ruined my state, no way in Hell do I want him ruining my country.
I wanted to make some pithy comment about this video, but every time I see his stupid face I get so riled up I can’t think straight. Uggggghhhhhhhh. I rest my case.
Man, I have not seen footage of Perry in a while. You know how if you watch every step of something’s progression, you never can tell how dramatic a change it has gone through? Well Perry’s really been working on his best patented “George W. mugging for the audience ‘cuz he’s a good ol’ boy” impression.
It’s nuts how much better he’s gotten at it. Spooky.
To be fair, he’s just courting the Party People Party. And y’all know you can’t party ’till you’re 21… but it would be a lot cooler if you could.
JKC 2012 — just keep campaigning. Sponsored by Alamo Beer and the Society to Preserve Dazed and Confused Stereotypes.
The three important numbers to remember are the voting age, the date of the election, and uh…oops!
9, 9, and 9?
I heard yesterday that apparently the 9 9 9 plan comes from The Sims? I guess I could Google that, but I’m leaving this here in the meantime.
Absolutely true. Rachel Maddow did a whole piece on it a few weeks ago (and how he quotes Pokemon, other weird stuff).
What is unfortunate is that Cain’s comedic Sim City connection further devalues people’s perceptions of what video games are capable of and what their place is in our society, and how some seriously good ideas can come from the industry, such as the team of gamers back in September who in ten days solved that puzzle of the protein and molecular structure for AIDS which had stumped scientists for years. That’s some bad-ass problem-solving, and video games made it happen.
Then on the opposite end of the spectrum, we have Herman Cain quoting Pokemon songs and introducing Sim City tax plans (but does his plan take into consideration the possibility of our country being attacked by monsters, I wonder).
sigh
his campaigning seems to involve lots of chin-rubber-banded-to-his-chest training.
“yeah, just keep your chin down against your chest and look up. that’s not creepy at all. it exudes power.” – rick perry’s campaign manager
“At least he don’t use no sissy teleprompter.” – Tea Party Stand-Up Comedian (this gets them rolling in their seats– on their rascal scooters)
and their lawn chairs.
“I’m not as president as you drunk I am” – rick perry’s shirt probably.
“W off the wagon” – rick perry’s other shirt definitely.
And without all that fancy liberal schoolin’.
“…including Rick Perry, who is NOT, as some suspect, a Toupee Factory Security Team Cyborg.” – Gotcha Media
I don’t know about you all, but if Gabe runs I will definitely vote for him on November 12th.