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Subscribe to RSSLEESVILLE, S.C. -- The rest of the political world's eyes are trained tonight on New Hampshire's exit polls, but Rick Perry has one other pressing matter on his mind.
"I'm fixing to get some gizzards!" he declared to a group of giggling elderly women chowing down at Shealy's Bar-B-Que on Tuesday night.
The Texas governor spent the Granite State primary night just shy of 1,000 miles away from the journalistic bonanza in Manchester, instead weaving his way between the long tables of a the cafeteria-style diner here, insisting on shaking the hands of every patron.
"You study!" he instructed a young girl.
"How's the catfish?" he inquired of another diner.
Perry, who dropped his efforts in New Hampshire after plummeting to the bottom of the polls in the state, hopes to revive his campaign in South Carolina with a swing heavy on his famed retail-politicking skills and a populist pitch aimed squarely at frontrunner Mitt Romney.
"Venture capitalism's a good thing. Comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get up and get started creating jobs and work," he told South Carolinians at a town hall here. "But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved in what I call vulture capitalism."
The governor will conduct several media interviews tonight, but it's fair to say that following the New Hampshire results won't be the highlight of his evening.
It will be those gizzards. He got them to go.
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Who the hell makes the decision as to where these clowns dine?
My all time favorite is still Tommy's Ham House!
The silver medal goes to Doughy Joey's Pizza! lmao!
And promptly tossed them out the bus window!
Best thing to eat in South Carolina is the low country boil. Now that's good!!!
Feisty,
a shame Perry will drop out soon, isnt it?
You had a whole boatload of nasty personal attacks on his sex life , his sexual orientation, his wife, his accent, and many other important issues all ready to go.
A shame they have to go to waste. But since they are all fiction anyway, why not use them anyway; replace "Rick Perry" with "Willard". Your moonbat admirers wont know the difference.
Booby - it is time you put your credibility where your mouth is little buddy!
Either show where I have EVER attacked Slick Rick on ANY of those issues or slink back under your favorite warm rock!
There is plenty to 'attack' Ricky on without going there!
I still don't understand the problem you & the rest of your ilk have with referring to Romney as Willard - after all, isn't that his FIRST name?
Why are YOU & the rest of the RWNJ's so embarrassed by it?
Unlike you & the rest of the troglodytes - who have to emphasize President Obama's MIDDLE name, which happens to be Hussein!
Put down the booze and OPEN your eyes for cryin out loud!
BTW - I double ♥♥ your avatar - NO ONE BUT OBAMA!
Ricky had a sex life? Say it isn't so.
The rumor is - with his male hairdresser!
Which could explain, the bad hair! ;o)
Bob-1887910
Feisty,
Bob,
It is indeed a shame that Perry will drop out soon. I find his stupidity very entertaining. He is a perfect representative of conservatives; stupid, arrogant and hypocritical.
johndevine: "He is a perfect representative of conservatives; stupid, arrogant and hypocritical."
Here's "stupid" (your word) ........Rangel & Geitner : " I didn't know I had to pay those taxes."
Here's arrogant ....Obama: " John (McCain) the election is over. I WON."
Here's hypocritical ... Pelosi: "Pass the bill so you can know what's in it."
Please, please, please folks, believe me when I say, all southerners are NOT like Rick Perry!!!!!!!
I believe it. I lived in the "Heart of Dixie" for a time. (Roll Tide!)
I could go for a platter of catfish!
Perry is fixin' to find out that he isn't going to get very far, but hey, there is always the audacity of hope. Gov. Perry, enjoy the barbeque, bubba.....
Main thing is, I sure hope he was courteous enough to get a double order of gizzards to share with Herman Caine...
Isn't Caine sitting this one out too? I can visualize hermie & ricky sitting together conspiring how they will oust willard and divide things up, all while chowing down on some gizzards and pizza....
OH! I'll probably have nightmares all night now; indigestion at minimum!
I lived in Dallas Texas for a few years and I met a LOT of people just like Rick Perry.
You have my deepest sympathies! ;o)
wow. There's a lot of "Dixie" bashing going on here.
Where was Rev. Martin Luther King from?
Feisty,
you should also give your "deepest sympathy" to the King family since you hate the South so much........you know .......the famous Rev.Martin Luther King family..........they're from Atlanta and Montgomery.........any bells ringing around here?????
LOL
crickets
Rick Perry seems just slightly below Larry The Cable Guy when it comes to intellegence. We Yankees know that not everyone in the South is like those dopes. After all some folks living down there are former Yankees but for good weather and good food they move to the South. I know the South has had a tough time with the stereotype and guys like Perry don't help the effort to dispel the idea.
Either show where I have EVER attacked Slick Rick on ANY of those issues or slink back under your favorite warm rock!
Ricky had a sex life?
The rumor is - with his male hairdresser!
Looks like the redhead suffers from multiple personality disorder
Rob ... time to take those two bottles of urine in to be tested.
That's occupy nectar to you
Rob,
I love the "occupy nectar" and "mpd" reference.
you have me laughing .
Poor Jon Huntsman....
He can't even beat crazy L Ron Paul. Time to pack up his chop sticks!
I hope Perry stays in the race till the end. Maybe then when he comes back to Texas we can kick him out of the Governor's Mansion. He is a loon.
It is good to have Perry back. Are gizzards people food? Maybe he would go for a nice healthy slab of HEAD CHEESE to go along with those GIZZARDS.
I'm hoping to show the real 'class' of the South in the '12 elections...Replace senators Shelby, Sessions, and McConnell. Then we could really believe in the North wind...instead of THE SOUTH SUCKS !
Should we name all the Democrat Reps and Senators of the South ? Nahhhh, that would be too easy.
hey I love head cheese
not so fond of gizzards though