A spokesperson for former Texas Gov. Rick Perry denied late Thursday that Perry mangled Ronald Reagan’s name during a second-tier Republican presidential primary debate.
While responding to a question from moderator and Fox News host Bill Hemmer, Perry took a shot at a “Ronald Raven” for signing legislation in 1986 that allowed undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status.
After the debate, Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed told ABC News that the former governor “clearly said Ronald Reagan.” Watch the tape and judge for yourself:
not a bug… its a feature…
Maybe if he puts on a second set of glasses it will make him even smarter. Hmmm, better make that three sets of glasses.
Doesn’t matter, he’ll never be president of anything except killing people.
Maybe WE are all wrong: maybe the president then WAS “Ronald Raven”.
How would any of us really know? I doubt any of us actually MET the guy, like Rick Perry did. And the rest of us are saddled with what we’ve read and heard said, whereas, again: Perry MET the guy - and probably asked him, too: ‘Mister President, decades from now I expect to be running for president, so I need to know how to say your name properly’
‘Well, young fellah, it’s Raven, just like in that book, The Raven and the Writing Desk. You seek, that was all about HOW someone like me is different from a writing desk. So, never forget, you young whippersnapper to honor the old birds who rule the roost of this great country.’
Listened to the tape at half speed. Sounds like he said Ronald Raven to me. But then again at one time, when I was very young I thought that euthanasia had something to do with young people in the far east.