Rick Perry Tries to Turn His Memory Lapse into a Victory
Governor Rick Perry is wasting no time trying to spin his bonehead moment from last night's debate into a fundraising win for his floundering campaign.
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Governor Rick Perry is wasting no time trying to spin his bonehead moment from last night's debate into a fundraising win for his floundering campaign.
Rick Perry struggled for several agonizing seconds to remember the last of the three federal agencies he'd cut during Wednesday's debate.
Tonight's Republican primary debate in Detroit will be about the economy, which means it will give Herman Cain a chance to talk about something other than how tall various women are. Plus: our liveblog starts around 7 p.m.
They may seem all but forgotten, but there are still seven other presidential candidates trying to get voters to pay attention to them while Herman Cain does inexplicable things on television. These are there stories.
There are other candidates in the Republican presidential race besides Herman Cain, and they are doing things other than denying they had anything to do with leaking his sexual harassment story.
In what could be a signal that he's seriously competing in Iowa, Mitt Romney has aired his first negative ads against Rick Perry in the state, the Associated Press reports
Rick Perry seems to have a knack for getting a great many excellent deals on private jets, The New York Times informs this morning.
President Obama is toast in 2012 if the economy is stagnant and the Republican nominee is good, according to an analysis by New York Times statistician Nate Silver; with a better economy and Rick Perry as the nominee, he Silver forecasts talk of Obama winning states like Georgia and Arizona.
Perhaps Herman Cain has noticed reporters have started using terms like "snowballing" and "modified limited hangout," a Richard Nixon reference, to refer to allegations of sexual harassment against him, because he's shifted from hoping the story will go away to blaming it on his rivals.
Cain supporters are trying to hunt down the dirty rotten scoundrel who leaked the story that Herman Cain was accused of sexually harassing two women at the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.
Asked about the video that got people wondering if Rick Perry was a drunk or has a pill problem, the presidential candidate said, "I felt the message got across very well."
Remember when you had to show your aunt Snopes.com because she kept emailing you forwards with animated angel GIFs about how drinking Coke can kill you?
Jon Stewart had a lot of material to cover on Monday night, spending a segment discussing Rick Perry's highly animated New Hampshire speech and wading into the resurfaced accusations of sexual harassment against Herman Cain.
Rick Perry got more bad news today as pundits continue to pile on the Governor's faltering campaign.
Herman Cain's frontrunner status in the GOP presidential primary has earned him a nice chunk of change in October.
Ron Paul can't get any attention despite fundraising and organizing successes, while Herman Cain is getting too much attention despite fundraising and organizing failures.
What's a bigger danger to Rick Perry: that he goes to more primary debates and says stupid stuff, or that he skips the debates and -- the horror -- Mitt Romney calls him a fraidy cat?
Even though Donald Trump called Rick Perry's birtherism hints a "positive thing," he didn't seem sure that the tactic was great in the long run, according to comments he made last night to Piers Morgan.
Cartoonist Tom Toles pokes holes in Rick Perry's tax plan.
Rick Perry explained that he isn't trying to reignite the birther issue, "I was having some fun with Donald Trump," in an interview with Tampa Bay's Bay News 9.
In Iowa, as Politico reported, Rick Perry is debuting new ads geared to tout his job-creating prowess, and the message is a stark contrast to his pulse-pounding, sci-fi thriller web trailer he released a few weeks ago.
Ohioans will vote in two weeks whether to keep a law curbing union power on the books, and a lot of people wish the country were paying more attention to the election -- reporters, Tea Partiers, unions -- except for maybe Mitt Romney.
A series of rotating Republican frontrunners has made clear which issues make their party's base squeal like tweens at a Justin Bieber concert.
Rick Perry has become the latest candidate to embrace simplicity as a first principle, by proposing a flat-tax that is measured by its tax form rather than its policy merits.
Texas governor Rick Perry has united a divided country with his not-so-flat tax plan: no one really gets it.
Texas governor Rick Perry, fading in the latest poll, has kept up his questions about Barack Obama's birth certificate that he brought up in a Parade magazine interview, telling CNBC, "It's fun to poke at him."
In the newest New York Times/CBS News survey, Herman Cain and Mitt Romney are still vying for the lead while Rick Perry's showing has dwindled all the way down to 6 percent, which is below Ron Paul who notched 8 percent support in the poll.
After what must have been a riveting presentation by Donald Trump, Rick Perry hints he's no longer sure President Obama was born in the United States.
A flat tax-based campaign didn't help Steve Forbes win the GOP nomination, but, with his endorsement of Rick Perry, he's betting the Texas governor can do a bit better.
The Texas governor proclaims his "love affair" with guns, and heightens the contrast with rivals who seem more comfortable in business-casual than Day-Glo.
An unusually silly sounding word has become the preferred way to describe the GOP front-runner.
Republicans have an opening to steal some of the Latino vote, given that President Obama's approval rating among them has hit a new low, but the candidates clearly prefer to throw red meat to their anti-immigration base.
What was running through Rick Perry and Mitt Romney's minds during their notably tense debate face off?
Rick Perry is going to call for a flat tax, a bid to steal a bit of Herman Cain's tax code magic as his own campaign struggles and has recruited Steve Forbes to help him do it.
The complaint among commentators that there have been too many Republican debates seems to have evaporated after Las Vegas.
Here's a new, wonky game: what words do you think voters mentioned the most when Rick Perry's name was read by a pollster?
Tuesday night is the eighth Republican primary debate of the 2012 election cycle, and while many pundits agree that this time the debates have mattered a lot more this cycle, will they run out of things to say about them?
In September, Rick Perry's campaign paid just $21,000 to use a private Cessna plane from a friendly businessman when the going rate for such flights could be triple the price, The New York Times reported.
Mitt Romney is going negative on Rick Perry and he's using one of the most tried-and-true methods: The Internet.
A core Perry supporter says he must juxtapose "traditional Christianity to the false God of Mormonism"
Neutering the EPA, drilling in protected lands, cutting green subsidies: What's not to like?
But Perry is not persuading them that he's the best alternative
On Good Morning America, he agreed with his wife's remarks that he was being 'brutalized' by opponents
Despite Western roots and Mormon heritage, he's being crushed by Romney in the state
Official fundraising number for many GOP candidates are out today
A NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll helps cement his status as a contender
Romney is back to running on inevitably; Cain is back to auditioning for a Fox deal
The Texas governor slips up while talking at a Dartmouth fraternity
The Republicans think really want to know the details of Cain's 9-9-9 plan
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