{"id":3184,"date":"2013-08-07T03:20:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T03:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2013-08-07T03:20:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T03:20:26","slug":"oops-not-a-big-deal-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3184","title":{"rendered":"Oops not a big deal, for now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Gov. Rick Perry had another one of those \u201coops\u201d moments this week.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was glad to be in Florida, when in fact he was speaking in New Orleans, the city in, um, <em>Louisiana<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been drawing some of the expected barbs. The lame-duck Republican Texas governor deserves most of the jabs that get tossed his way. This one counts.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/texaspolitics\/2013\/08\/another-rick-perry-oops-moment-on-video\/\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/texaspolitics\/2013\/08\/another-rick-perry-oops-moment-on-video\/\">http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/texaspolitics\/2013\/08\/another-rick-perry-oops-moment-on-video\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem here is that Perry\u2019s campaign for the presidency \u2013 if he\u2019s planning another one in 2016 \u2013 hasn\u2019t yet gotten off the ground. He hasn\u2019t yet officially declared his candidacy. This was a one-stop appearance. It would be different if he were in the midst of a whirlwind campaign, stumping from state to state.<\/p>\n<p>I can recall the 1968 Democratic presidential primary campaign. U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy launched his campaign in March of that year and began a frenetic 80-day run for the party nomination. He covered a lot of territory in a very short period of time. <\/p>\n<p>An assassin ended that effort, tragically, on June 6.<\/p>\n<p>But I recall one campaign appearance in which he mistakenly said he was in Nevada when he actually was speaking in Nebraska \u2026 or maybe it was the other way around. Whatever, he got his states mixed up. The crowd corrected him on the spot and he laughed it off with typical RFK good humor.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Perry will need to keep his compass dialed in if he\u2019s going to seek the big prize in three years. This first little hiccup doesn\u2019t bode for well for what might lie ahead.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Rick Perry had another one of those \u201coops\u201d moments this week. He said he was glad to be in Florida, when in fact he was speaking in New Orleans, the city in, um, Louisiana. He\u2019s been drawing some of the expected barbs. The lame-duck Republican Texas governor deserves most of the jabs that get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oops not a big deal, for now<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,73,1340,3417,3912,3951,3977,4627,4675],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1968-campaign","tag-2016-campaign","tag-democratic-politics","tag-oops","tag-republican-politics","tag-rick-perry","tag-robert-f-kennedy","tag-texas-governor","tag-texas-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}