I remember when I was in front of the E6 board I had a similar brain-fart. I forgot the answer to a question.
Well, it was on the tip of my tongue, but I just couldn't spit it out. I knew the rest of the questions, no problem, but for some strange reason the key word to an answer totally escaped me. So to stall I asked the SGM to rephrase the question. While he was attempting to rephrase the question the answer came to me and I blurted it out. They knocked 2 points off my score leaving me with a 198 instead of a perfect 200, which I later learned they really wanted to give me.
Seriously, these things happen. Perry seemed to be doing well until he couldn't remember that one of the 3 departments he wanted to eliminate was the Dept. of Energy. Problem is, with Obama we can't afford to have these kinds of mishaps . We need someone that will tie his lying ass into knots. It doesn't matter that Perry's state is responsible for most of the jobs Obama claims to have created. He keeps screwing these debates up. It's gonna be tough enough beating him with all of his money, armies of lawyers and protestors, and his media helping him. We can't have someone up there that seems as stupid Liberals always claim Republicans stereotypically are.
So I think Perry is toast.
Course Perry can't be as stupid as the folks that think Obama has less to do with the economy than Bush.