Rick Perry: Jobs juggernaut meets 'Governor Oops'
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry would like to run for president in 2016 as a proven job-creator who modeled Texas' strong economy in his own political gunslinger image and says he can do the same for the rest of the country.
To do it, he'll have to convince voters to forget about "Oops."
It's 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?' "
As he looks at running a second time for president, Perry, 64, is banking on his record as governor of Texas to move past "oops." It's a strategy that didn't connect in the last campaign, when the governor's jobs record was drowned out by that moment and other gaffes, said Ray Sullivan, a former Perry chief of staff and spokesman for his 2012 campaign. ...
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