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The task awaiting former Texas Gov. Rick Perry — gosh, it feels nice to write “former” in front of his name — will be to erase a singular moment from his first run for president.<\/p>\n

He thinks “jobs” will replace “oops” in voters’ memory if and when he declares his intention to run for president in 2016.<\/p>\n

(OK, he’s not yet a “former” governor, but the moment is close enough that I’ll take the liberty of using it here.)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2014\/12\/31\/perry_hopes_texas_jobs_record_can_trump_oops_from_2012_125105.html<\/p>\n

He’ll have to sell the Texas jobs record to voters looking for an economic medicine man among the Republicans who’ll be seeking to replace Barack Obama in the White House.<\/p>\n

But that one moment still stands out as the definition of Perry’s first run for president. As Real Clear Politics reported: “It all boils down to the moment when Perry, in the midst of a 2011 presidential debate, was unable to recall the third of three federal agencies he’d promised to shutter, finally muttering ‘oops.’ Asked about it in a recent interview with The Associated Press, Perry said, ‘That’s like going back and asking a football player who dropped a pass to win the Super Bowl: ‘Did that bother you?’ ”<\/p>\n

His campaign staff and close friends said the governor didn’t prepare sufficiently for the 2012 nomination campaign. He had a sore back and was medicated heavily to relieve the pain, they say. There was little staff preparation and development, they contend.<\/p>\n

It all added up to a political disaster in the making.<\/p>\n

It arrived on that debate stage in late 2011.<\/p>\n

Can the governor take the credit for all those Texas jobs? Should<\/em> he take credit? Well, they occurred on his watch.<\/p>\n

But by the same token,\u00a0millions<\/em> of jobs were added nationally to company payrolls during the Obama administration. Does the president deserve credit for those numbers as well? My trick knee tells me that ex-Gov. Perry won’t give the president a nickel’s worth of credit for what happened nationally, but he’ll scarf up all the credit he can find for the Texas job growth.<\/p>\n

It should produce an interesting tale that Rick Perry will be more than glad to spin in his favor.<\/p>\n

First, he’ll have to\u00a0purge our memory of the “oops” moment.<\/p>\n

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The task awaiting former Texas Gov. Rick Perry — gosh, it feels nice to write “former” in front of his name — will be to erase a singular moment from his first run for president. He thinks “jobs” will replace “oops” in voters’ memory if and when he declares his intention to run for president … Continue reading Jobs vs. 'Oops' for ex-Gov. Perry<\/span> →<\/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":[14,18],"tags":[59,73,540,2504,3417,3951,4468,4575,4610,5044],"class_list":["post-7694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-2012-campaign","tag-2016-campaign","tag-barack-obama","tag-jobs","tag-oops","tag-rick-perry","tag-super-bowl","tag-texas","tag-texas-economy","tag-us-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694","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=7694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}