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Perry＊s Painful Performance Opens Door Wider For Gingrich Surely Davy Crockett＊s

line from his 1834 Tennessee congressional bid is running through Perry＊s mind: ※You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.§

Herman Cain didn＊t have to talk much about the scandal he is now dragging around with him, but neither did he seem to rise to the

occasion of what should have been his strong suit: a debate on the economy in Michigan hosted by CNBC. He showed some chops when

talking about European sovereign debt, but ※Nine-Nine-Nine§ is starting to seem like a crutch. The Romney camp says it isn't

dismissing the challenge posed by Herman Cain, who has survived so far the recent flurry of sexual-harassment allegations against

him. The two men continue to run neck-and-neck among Republican voters in a variety of polls this week, and Mr. Cain's campaign said

Thursday that it had raised $9 million in donations since Oct. 1, with a quarter of the money arriving after allegations of sexual

harassment by Mr. Cain in the late 1990s became public last week. Mr. Cain has said the accusations are false. Mr. Perry struggled in

Wednesday night's debate to remember all three government agencies he'd like to eliminate as president, before eventually saying,

"Sorry. Oops." Campaign experts said that threatens to undercut his fund raising and further hobble a campaign already battered by

falling poll numbers and a string of lackluster debate outings.Like any of you with any shred of humanity, and because we've all been

there 〞 albeit not during a nationally televised presidential debate 〞 I felt bad for Perry during his tough-to-watch side trip to

Forgetfultown at the Michigan debate when he could name only two of the three federal agencies he wants to abolish. Perry reacted

quickly, realizing there was no choice but to join in the laughter, beginning Thursday with the morning TV shows and ending with an

appearance on "Late Show with David Letterman." Dave's show also had an installment of Stupid Human Tricks, a scheduling coincidence

not intended, I think, to imply that any governor who happened to be on the show was a stupid human.

6:02 PM - 11/10/2011

Oops said that:"Rick Perry stumbles at CNBC debate."

In what may go down as one of the most cringe-worthy moments of any modern presidential campaign, the Texas governor froze in the

middle of an answer during a Republican debate in Michigan sponsored by CNBC and dealt what could be a fatal blow to his 2012 bid.

Perry, who has frequently admitted he's a poor debater, stumbled in the middle of explaining which government agencies he would

eliminate as president〞a softball question given the answer is part of his daily talking points on the campaign trail. "It's three

agencies of government when I get there that are gone. Commerce, Education and the um, what's the third one there? Let's see. Oh

five--commerce, education and the um, um," Perry said as he struggled to name the third agency. The governor awkwardly looked at his

notes, as one of his rivals offered a lifeline. "The EPA?" Mitt Romney asked. "That's it," Perry said, but then retracted his answer.

For more than 30 seconds, Perry shuffled in place and tried to think of the agency he was missing. Finally, he said, "I can't. Oops."

You can watch video of the moment below: Ten minutes later, Perry finally came up with the answer he was looking for〞"The Department

of Energy," he said〞but by then it was too late. The blunder, the biggest of Perry's three month campaign, undermined the governor's

efforts to regain momentum for his 2012 effort--a gaffe he admitted to in the debate room afterwards. "I stepped in it," he admitted.

But Perry's mistake also granted a lifeline to Herman Cain, whose campaign has been in crisis mode in recent days over allegations

that he sexually harassed four women while he was head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. Asked about the

controversy, Cain again denied the allegations and attacked the media and his accusers. "The American people deserve better than

someone being tried in the court of public opinion based on unfounded accusations," Cain said in the early moments of the debate.

"This country's looking for leadership, and this is why a lot of people, despite what has happened over the last nine days＃ (they)

have voted with their dollars, and they are saying we they don't care about character assassination They care about leadership and

getting this economy going and all the other problems that we face." The debate moderators asked Romney about Cain's dramas〞a

question that elicited boos from the audience〞but he dodged the question--and in the process ended discussion of a topic that has

dominated campaign headlines for days. The focus of Wednesday night's forum was the economy, and while the questions were pointed,

the candidates largely stuck to their regular talking points. Romney pointed to his experience in the private sector as the reason

why he's in the best position to get the country back on track. Perry talked up his record as a job creator in Texas, and the other

candidates each touted their individual strengths against President Obama. Yet in contrast to recent debates, few of the candidates

took direct aim at each other--or at Romney, who continued to frame the election not as a match-up between him or any of his primary

rivals but against Obama. At one point, Romney used a series of questions about his consistency on his position regarding bailouts of

the auto industry to argue that he's not a flip-flopper. The former Massachusetts governor noted that he's been married for more than

40 years to the same woman, attended the same church for years and held his last job at Bain Capital for more than 20 years. "I think

people understand that I'm a man of steadiness and constancy," he argued. "I don't think you're going to find somebody who has more

of those attributes than I do." Yet throughout the debate, Romney and the other candidates offered little in the way of specifics

about how they would actually create jobs--each argued that rolling back taxes would help stimulate the economy and thus create jobs.

Asked about the housing crisis, Romney admitted he didn't have a specific plan. "The best thing you can do for housing is get the

economy going again," Romney said. "What won't work is what the president has done."

11:29 PM - 11/9/2011

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