let s turn to jim moore, huffington post contributor and writer and author of the book adios mofo: why rick perry will make america miss george w. bush. too late now, jim, you can t rename that title. you sure know how to embarrass proud texans. it was a great book, but you should have told us it was going to fall apart fast. it lived up to its title, adios, mofo, he s out of here. what happened, did people in texas know something everybody else in the states didn t know? well, you know, he on paper i think i told you this before, ed, when we talked. on paper, this guy checks all the boxes for republicans. i mean, he s very good with his social conservatives, very good with evangelicals, he s in the right place on gay marriage and abortion and those things and the guy looks good and when he s on a podium and unchallenged and doesn t have to answer questions or think analytically, he does very, very well. but one thing that didn t work
so the question is, did he get some phone calls from his big dollar people and say come on, rick, you re not moving any numbers in south carolina, we re not wasting more money down there. you re embarrassing yourself, you re going to have problems when you get back to the state, just stop this. i think that s probably more what happened. you mention he had some debate issues. well, he was weak during the debates. here s some of the examples. do you believe turkey still belongs in nato? well, obviously, when you have a country that is being ruled by what many would perceive to be islamic terrorists the third one i can t, sorry, oops. i ll bump plans with you, brother. on the side of against the second amendment before he was for the second amendment, was it before he was before the social programs from the standpoint of he was for standing up for roe v. wade?
book adios mofo: why rick perry will make america miss george w. bush. too late now, jim, you can t rename that title. you sure know how to embarrass proud texans. it was a great book, but you should have told us it was going to fall apart fast. it lived up to its title, adios, mofo, he s out of here. what happened, did people in texas know something everybody else in the states didn t know? well, you know, he on paper i think i told you this before, ed, when we talked. on paper, this guy checks all the boxes for republicans. i mean, he s very good with his social conservatives, very good with evangelicals, he s in the right place on gay marriage and abortion and those things and the guy looks good and when he s on a podium and unchallenged and doesn t have to answer questions or think analytically, he does very, very well. but one thing that didn t work
some phone calls from his big dollar people and say come on, rick, you re not moving any numbers in south carolina, we re not wasting more money down there. you re embarrassing yourself, you re going to have problems when you get back to the state, just stop this. i think that s probably more what happened. you mention he had some debate issues. well, he was weak during the debates. here s some of the examples. do you believe turkey still belongs in nato? well, obviously, when you have a country that is being ruled by what many would perceive to be islamic terrorists the third one i can t, sorry, oops. i ll bump plans with you, brother. on the side of against the second amendment before he was for the second amendment, was it before he was before the social programs from the standpoint of he was for standing up for roe v. wade? i hope i am the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. the fact is, he never debated
mofo: why rick perry will make america miss george w. bush. joe moore, good to have you back with us tonight. this is not a bad political recovery. what do you think? he did as best as he could in the past 24 hours. i ve got a beef with you about making me sit through that 53 seconds again. that s painful to listen to, much less watch. but you know, they have been responsive. and you know, people are saying, well, when is he going to drop out and when is it over? and i think the answer is that when you re dealing with a guy who lacks the self-awareness to realize that he doesn t have the capabilities or the intellect to be president of the united states, you can t expect him to have the awareness to say i messed up and can t get out of this thing. they re probably going to refocus on iowa. and they did a great recovery this morning. everything about crisis communications is you address the issue very fast.