When Rick Perry made that horrible gaffe in a Republican debate last month, you might have expected to see it in one of his opponents’ ads. Instead, it’s Perry himself who’s just put out a video poking fun at his mistake:
‘If you want a slick debater, I’m obviously not your guy.’ Indeed.
We’ll have to wait and see if this sort of thing helps Perry recover from just 4 per cent in the polls.

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