“OOOOO- CAN I HOLD YOUR GUN, BIG DADDY?”
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is a leading advocate of gun rights who likes to boast of having dispatched a coyote on a recent jog, so I asked him during today’s walking press conference at the Iowa State Fair whether he was armed.
“I never comment on whether I’m carrying a handgun or not,” he said. “That’s why it’s called concealed.”
(If he was armed, he could have found himself in hot water with the state police over a ban at the fair that has rankled some local gun groups.)
Perry’s appearance at the fair, where he challenged reporters on whether they were “tough” enough to walk with him, chomped on meat and a hard-boiled egg and struck rugged poses was a well-staged political triumph. (The word “manly” got thrown around a lot, with varying degrees of irony, in the press pack.) It was also an opportunity to explore Perry’s politics, and reporters are currently transcribing their long recordings of his free-flowing comments.
We may set a world record for Ho Yay this election cycle.
eemom
pssst, Cole.
If you really WANT to survive this election cycle, ur doing it wrong.
Go bake some more bread.
Ron
I, for one, welcome our Teatard overlords.
Will Reks
Rick Perry makes Arnold Schwarzenegger look like girlie man.
JPL
dudgummit!
abo gato
Gotta agree with eemom, for any of us to survive this, we are all gonna have to stop looking at this train wreck. Plus, baking! Who doesn’t love something baked? I’m toasting some bread in the oven that I baked last night. Made some chicken wings on the grill, they are also in the oven, basking in the Frank’s Hot Wing sauce mixed with butter. Food time!
Santiago
I didn’t know that chomping on a hard-boiled egg is “manly”.
burnspbesq
Rick Perry is not worthy of having Little Feat songs used to mock him.
Wake me up before he go-goes.
Mark S.
Is Tweety still on the air? Is he swooning over Perry? Or does he think he’s a jackass?
I’m genuinely curious. I don’t get cable anymore and Tweety’s so bipolar you never know what he’s going to do.
Brian S
I’ve always considered people who want concealed weapons permits to be sort of chickenshit. Wear that fucker on your hip if you want to deter a criminal.
LT
“Perry’s appearance at the fair, where he challenged reporters on whether they were “tough” enough to walk with him…”
At the Iowa State Fair? Fuuuuuk. Dude makes me think of the uncle in the military in Harold & Maude.
lamh34
@Mark S.:
IDK, but from the few times I’ve seen Tweety talk about Perry, he doesn’t seem to think much of him. He basically calls him the second coming of GWB, but I don’t think he likes him as much as he seems to like the “idea” of Bachmann. As for Romney, Tweety can’t seem to stand Mittens.
Mark S.
@lamh34:
Oh, so he’s gone completely insane. That’s a shame.
Jenny
I see Ben Smith has a new set of knee pads.
Poor Mittens. He must feel so used, now that Ben and company are taking Slick Rick to the prom.
gogol's wife
Slightly OT, but I bought a glove with rubber protruberances that you can use to massage/brush cats, which they love. We call it the Mitt Romney. “The cats just love their Mitt Romney!”
WyldPirate
Abo gato@5:
Who doesn’t love something baked?
Diabetics that want to control their blood glucose levels.
Though Cole’s bread pics make good wanking material for an old diabetic fart like me.
burnspbesq
@lamh34:
Tweety is old-school. When you say the words “Massachusetts Republican” he thinks of Ed Brooke, a sensible guy with principles, and Mitt just doesn’t compute.
Ian
If he was real ‘manly’ he woulda killed the coyote with his hands. Or he should have owned a manlier dog.
It saddens me that having a gun on you at all times is how to get votes in Murika
bemused
Oh gawd, another swaggering dope playing cowboy. I bet he walks like he’s got a loaded diaper too.
I think someone here may have posted photos of Rick and George posing almost exactly flexing their arm muscles. Gag.
Jenny
Monkey see – Monkey do
http://img220.imageshack.us/im…..nperry.jpg
bemused
@Jenny:
I thought it had to be you after seeing your links at previous post. Excellent. Just add the great contribution from another BJ’er, “Dubya, Dubya-er” as a caption and it’s a perfect email to send around.
PurpleGirl
@Santiago: Did it still have the shell?
RareSanity
The Rickker really likes living on the edge, don’t he? I mean you gotta be a tough S.O.B. to walk around a place like the Iowa State Fair, eating meat and whatnot…
Just Some Fuckhead
Perry seems like the kind of person you can have a beer with, and then light beer farts with.
Villago Delenda Est
@RareSanity:
Well, he’s not quite ready to move up to the serious danger of walking down Main Street, USA, at Disney World.
General Stuck
Obama will discover his personal buttons in short order, and push them to watch the ensuing explosion. Macho clowns running on bluster and buffoonish antics might play well in Texas and the rest of the south, but the well scrubbed folks in the upper midwest and elsewhere won’t get it. And will mostly recoil. There was a reason GWB went with the compassionate conservative routine in his campaigns.
I would like to have Perry as the GOP nominee, but on the other hand, in a two man POTuS race where anything can happen, and usually does, it makes it at least possible he could get elected. We could likely survive a president Romney, not so much a presnit Perry, methinks.
DonkeyKong
You got to admit, fellating a fried stick of butter at the fair is pretty butch in a Bertolucci kind of way.
bemused
Some of the manly commenters at Politico are offended, one telling Ben to skip a few manicures and maybe he’ll remember he was born a male. Hilarious.
dedc79
I can’t even imagine what the gun lobby has in store for a Perry/Bachmann presidency
Presumably legislation requiring states to allow guns at state fairs will be high on the list…
Ruckus
@Brian S:
I pretty much considered that they are really insecure about the size of their danglers. They have CSP, all the time.
Joseph Nobles
@Jenny: I have to say, there’s a clear contrast there. Perry’s way more into that pose. Bush is fucking around, but Perry is finding an identity.
waratah
@JPL: Here is a link for the cinnamon roll recipe you wanted. I think you need to have a bread machine that makes a 2lb. loaf, if not you can adjust the recipe at allrecipes as it might not hold all the dough.
I use real butter in the dough and lots when I spread. They also have a cinnabon clone which I have not tried as I like old fashioned cinnamon rolls better. I also use pecans instead of walnuts
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/cinnamon-rolls-ii/detail.aspx
Cinnabon clone
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/cinnamon-rolls-iii/detail.aspx
Spaghetti Lee
@Comrade Mary:
What the hell in my preceding comment put me into moderation?
The internet gods don’t want us commenters getting caught in the TVTropes black hole, that’s what.
The Dangerman
@dedc79:
You’re aiming too low; I’d say it’ll be required for everyone to carry at the State Fair (with the possible exclusion of the Fun House; all those guns and all those mirrors might be a bad mix)…
…as well as everyplace else.
gbear
I wonder if anyone in the press tried to buy him a corndog?
Jebediah
I look forward to someone from our incredibly liberal-biased media asking Perry “Under what circumstances is it OK to execute an innocent person?” Given what passes for Very Serious these days, though, there might not be the political penalty I would hope for.
Martin
Eating a hard-boiled egg is manly? Call me when there’s a photo of him deep-throating a corndog. Then I’ll be impressed.
Martin
@The Dangerman:
Still too low. The state fair convict shooting gallery. State convicts stand with various trinkets balanced on them, you bring your gun and shoot them off. “We bring the convicts, you bring the fun!” Immigrant shooting gallery as well in border states.
Anya
It kinda makes you miss Tim Russet, doesn’t it. At least he asked tough questions and confronted people with a video of their previous comments. David Gregory, Chuck Todd and the Politico gossipers are a disease that’s slowly killing America. It just astonishes me that these New York and DC pundits are impressed with the phony folksiness of Rick Perry. Do they not see what a disaster he would be for the country? Do they care so little about their country that they would exchange the future of their country for the cheep entertainment the Jesus freak and his fellow wingnuts are offering?
YellowDog
If Perry is 61, he would have been eligible for the draft in 1968. I have heard nothing about his military service. We know he went to college. Do we have another chicken hawk who had other things to do?
Emma
@Anya: They’re not impressed at all. They just know what if they can talk up a “real horse race” their ratings will go up and that means their lords and masters will give them more leftover tidbits.
FlipYrWhig
If yet another campaign devolves into analyzing the connotations of the way the candidates eat various foodstuffs, I hope each and every member of the media who indulges that kind of thing meets with a uniquely gruesome Final Destination-style comeuppance.
Paddy
@gbear: Looks like he bought his own. Dumbass. We got in a world o’shit on Twitter last night for posting the dueling Bachmann corndog pics, called sexist etc. There’s actually an animated gif out there of Santorum and his DQ cone that is very disturbing.
Anya
@Emma: Country first!
FlipYrWhig
@Anya:
I don’t think they’re actually impressed; instead, they think it’s so stupid that it’s just the kind of thing the even stupider yokels will surely eat right up, making the stupidity a triumphant political strategy. It’d be like fawning over Larry the Cable Guy, not because he’s funny, but because he’s so unfunny that he’s a brilliant purveyor of unfunny idiocy to morons. It’s condescension redoubled and twisted into a mobius loop.
Just Some Fuckhead
@YellowDog:
Perry was in the Hair Force.
Tuffy
Service/branch United States Air Force
Years of service 1972–1977
Rank Captain
At least click over to Wikipedia you lazy fucksticks.
Lyrebird
@WyldPirate: Yeasties will eat up applesauce (inst of sugar) in totally-whole-grain bread dough. Won’t give the same rush, of course, but it will taste okay and make the house smell good!
YellowDog
@Tuffy:
I stand corrected.
It’s nice to know someone is watching.
Jethro Troll
I heard that Rick Perry shot a dog and pretended it was a coyote.
Anya
@Emma: @FlipYrWhig: Am I too naive to expect that they put their country ahead of profits and cheap entertainment in these perilous times.
Lyrebird
@Paddy: @gbear:
Link didn’t work for me… worth visiting tho! So here it is:
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/08/15/photoh-the-non-sexist-rick-perry-corn-dog-challenge-to-michele-and-marcus-bachmann/#disqus_thread
Ash Can
So what’s going to happen first — Perry gets caught with a rent boy, or shoots a piece of himself off with his concealed-carry?
cxs
@RareSanity: Seriously. I”m more impressed by Obama walking into a stadium, a deli or hugging babies on the rope line, than I am some psuedo-cowboy strolling through a fair.
Silver
@Jenny:
For a bunch of homophobes, the GOP people do a lot of the gayest shit I’ve ever seen…
Just Some Fuckhead
@Ash Can:
Perry accidentally shoots his rentboy.. then claims he fighting off a sexual assault.
Paddy
Grumble grumble
Perry and corndog
Santorum and DQ cone
Michele and Marcus Bachmann dueling corndogs
Hate it when I screw that stuff up.
Emma
@Anya: I hate to say it, but yes. You are. I was too, once upon a time, before the Presidential election of 2000…
dww44
@Mark S.: According to Tweety at the end of his show this evening, this past weekend the Republicans “baked the cake” and “put a Perry on top”. I don’t know whether he’s falling all over Perry, but he did spend some time talking about the triumvirate of candidates: Romney, Bachmann, and Perry, with Romney being the weakest of the three and 2/3 being a part of the Tea Party wing of the party. Had someone on who talked about how great Perry was as an actual campaigner, a real barnstormer, I think was the phrase used.
Personally, it is the absolute height of insanity that the GOP may nominate for President someone who was talking about secession a year or so ago. That fact just really blows my mind.
Citizen_X
“Tough enough to walk with him?” What the fucking fuck does that mean? Are they walking up the north face of the Eiger or something?
TenguPhule
Greased Assholes. Manly greased assoholes.
EriktheRed
“Ho Yay”?
niknik
@Ian:
Or shot it from a helicopter. I guess Texas just ain’t rugged like other places.
Frank
Oh good,this again.What makes the press deem Perry to be so manly?Manly Bush was the son of an elitist Republican dynasty, he went AWOL from the military, and pretended to be a rancher. I can’t wait to find out Perry’s bona fides.