Oops

Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn’t ready to announce his candidacy for president in 2016; that decision will come in May or June of next year. But the longest-serving governor in the history of his state said Wednesday that this time, he will be ready if he decides to try again…

He has spent, by his own admission, most of the past two-plus years paying penance and doing due diligence, trying to undo the damage from his 2012 campaign. His candidacy is now encapsulated by his famous utterance — “oops” — after he could not remember the third of three federal agencies that he would eliminate if he became president.

“It’s never going to go away,” he said of impressions of his failed candidacy. “It’s always there, just as Bill Clinton’s 1988 [long-winded Democratic] convention speech is always there. It’s always part of your past. I’m a big believer that Americans…are interested in how do you perform after you’ve been knocked down.”