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Rick Perry’s fate sealed by an “Oops“

To think that all those millions of dollars raised should come to this: a man who looks too stupid t

By Felicity Spector

Never say politics isn’t full of surprises. Last night’s Republican debate in Michigan appears to have witnessed the end of one candidate’s presidential campaign, but it wasn’t Herman Cain who was brought down by the sheer weight of those sexual harassment allegations — but Rick Perry, who fell victim to the most embarrassing kind of political amnesia.

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