{"id":182840,"date":"2015-05-26T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/26\/ignore-last-time-i-was-a-junkie-worst-presidential-campaign-slogan-ever\/"},"modified":"2015-05-26T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T01:55:00","slug":"ignore-last-time-i-was-a-junkie-worst-presidential-campaign-slogan-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/26\/ignore-last-time-i-was-a-junkie-worst-presidential-campaign-slogan-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignore Last Time, I Was a Junkie: Worst Presidential Campaign Slogan Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rick Perry is now saying that the reason that he was so stupid in his 2012 run for President was because he was jacked up on pain pills<\/a>:<\/div>\n

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) offered a critical assessment of some of the problems with his last presidential run. <\/p>\n

“I wasn’t healthy. You all know the health stories \u2014 it was what it was,” Perry said in front of reporters in Souix City, Iowa, according to an NPR report<\/a> published on Tuesday. Perry has taken steps toward running for the White House again and is expected to formally jump into the race<\/a> on June 4 in Dallas. <\/p>\n

During a 2012 GOP debate in Rochester, Michigan, Perry struggled to name the three federal agencies he would cut if elected president. <\/p>\n

“The third agency of government I would do away with \u2014the Education, the uh, the Commerce, and let’s see. I can’t find the third one. I can’t,” Perry said during the debate<\/a>. “Sorry, oops.” <\/p>\n

Later in the cycle, aides to Perry said<\/a> that the governor suffered from severe back pains and depended on painkillers to make it through the debates, which seemed to have affected<\/a> his debate performances. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously?  You are suggesting that unwise use of painkillers made you behave erratically, and it’s all better now?<\/p>\n

This is the worst bit of stupidity by a Presidential candidate since \u2026\u2026\u2026 Ummmmm \u2026\u2026\u2026 Sorry, oops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick Perry is now saying that the reason that he was so stupid in his 2012 run for President was because he was jacked up on pain pills: Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) offered a critical assessment of some of the problems with his last presidential run. “I wasn’t healthy. You all know the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,978,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}