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Rick Perry's back, and doing his best Clint Eastwood impression.
"If it's halftime in America," he said, invoking the "Dirty Harry" actor's recent appearance in a controversial Chrysler ad during last weekend's Super Bowl -- "I'm fearful of what the final score is going to be if we let this president start the second half as quarterback."
In his second public appearance since dropping out of the presidential race, Perry quipped at today's conservative CPAC gathering that the clock ran out on his own presidential campaign as well.
"Aggies never lose," he said, referencing the mascot of his alma mater Texas A&M. "We just run out of time. So you can say that my presidential campaign just ran out of time. But I haven't run out on the ideas."
While he warned against settling for a new president would would simply "tinker" with existing policies, Perry did not mention any remaining GOP candidates by name.
That omission included Newt Gingrich, whom he endorsed when he dropped out of the race in North Charleston on Jan. 19. Perry also didn't mention the former House Speaker during a speech in Austin last week.
In warmly received remarks to the conservative confab Thursday, Perry revisited many of his rhetorical highlights from his campaign, including populist anti-corruption tones and a harsh critique of President Barack Obama's "war on religion."
The Texas governor won limited traction last year when he slammed the Obama administration for its clashes with Catholic bishops over federal funding, but the issue is now the subject of searing debate after the White House's controversial mandate for most employers to provide copay-free health coverage for birth control prescriptions.
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Rick Perry would be the quarterback who keeps getting penalized because the play clock keeps running out of time.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ..............Wake me up when cpac is over.
I'm fearful of what the final score is going to be if we let this president start the second half as quarterback.
That is because the final score will indicate a massive Republican loss.
"Aggies never lose,"
Yeah they do. A lot. Heck, they lose so much the NCAA gave their football team a handicap and let them have a twelfth man.
So you can say that my presidential campaign just ran out of time.
I can also say that you got your ass handed to you.
But I haven't run out on the ideas
Yeah, brilliant ideas just fall out of Perry like gold nuggets fall out of my dog's arse.
Oh! go away you stupid man. It looks like the voters in Texas are finally catching on to the dreadful governor they have elected, his poll rating is showing him at 40% and the President at 43%. I guess some took off the blinders.
Ooops!
Rick,
STFU and go home.
Thank you,
devie
AnaBanana -
I don't know......when you look back on his campaign, it almost seems like intentional grounding. Or at the very least "false start".
Want to bet $10,000 that Romney's thinking of attacking Santorum for "delay of game"?
Another loser, Slick Rick, spouting nonsense at CPAC.
Other losers scheduled to appear are Bachman, Pizza Man and soon to be loser Mittens.
CPAC is scraping the bottom of the right-wing barrel.
Who cares what Perry thinks. His 5 minutes of sunshine are over. Move along folks, nothing to see here.
Well of course, because fear is what Teapublicans are all about.
The right-wing has been conspiring from day one of the Obama administration to: 1) obstruct non-stop even at the expense of the American people; 2) carry out their extreme agenda at the state level by fast-tracking (jamming through) anti-abortion, anti-union, anti-government, anti-you name it efforts via ALEC templates to conference calls about the Occupy movement to groups like the 40,000 Moms trying to apply pressure to the private sector like JCPennys; 3) conniving to gerrymander, suppress the vote, etc. as a way to victory in lieu of real merit and majority support.
And why? Because they know the demographics will not be in their favor in the future. End Tyranny of the Minority now -- Throw the Teapublicans out.
In the meantime, what about "exceptional-ism" and how is it that people like Rick Perry, or Herman Cain, etc. have managed to make good money while so many far more capable average Americans are looking for work?
I'd be fearful if any of these so called "GNOP" candidates were any type of quarterback......I'd even be fearful if they were the waterboy...... You know we'd be in a war we shouldn't be in...we would have tax cuts for the wealthy and NO safety nets whatsover.....
Perry didn't run out of time; he ran out of support. Not enough fans.
Slick Rick The Aggie Cheerleader . Welcome to the SEC girls . You are gonna get your heads handed to you .
They'd send in 3 plays for the two minute drill and he would only remember 2 of them.
Steeler Fan -- goodun.
Even right-leaning Eastwood recognizes that manufacturing is a national security issue, and that the country (jobs, economy) should be first before Party.
Thanks to President Obama, we've made it through the first half of the economic crisis. Democrats, start your engines! May the American People (99%) be victorious.
Ha...fool you were given 14 minutes too long of your 15 minutes of fame.
Let's see Obama got the Presidency, Clint has a big enough name to get a minute long commercial on the Super Bowl and you're a warm up act speaking on day 1 of the CPAC conference.
I'll take my President as QB and you can, well continue to be Mitt's waterboy while you scrape up enough to take that $10k bet he's waiting on.
Rick Perry= Idiot
Tell me Rick, do you feel lucky? - A fist full of dollars didn't help you.
...well do ya punk!
Go ahead, Rick. Make my day!
Did you hear about the Aggie who moved from Texas to Oklahoma? Raised the IQ level of both states.
There were three Aggies huddled around each other at a local bar. All of a sudden, they jumped up and yelled, "Yeah, 45! 45!" The bartender goes down to them and asks, "45? What are you guys so excited about?" One of the Aggies speaks up: "We just finished a jigsaw puzzle. The box said 2 to 3 years, and we did it in 45 days!"
What is the difference between an Aggie and a carp?
One is a bottom feeding scum sucker and the other is a fish.
Did you hear about the Aggie terrorist who tried to blow up the Longhorn team bus.
He burned his lip on the tailpipe.
How many Aggies does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One, but he gets 3 hours credit.
What is the difference between the Aggies and Rice Crispies?
Rice Crispies know what to do in a bowl.
Where was O.J. hiding right before the famous white Bronco Chase?
On the A&M campus, because that's the last place you'll find a football player.
Did you hear about the skeleton they found in a closet in one of the dorms at A&M?
It was the 1963 hide-and-go-seek champion!
Did you hear about the Aggie who won a gold medal at the Olympics?
He liked it so much that he decided to get it bronzed.
Why did the Aggie get fired from the M&M plant as a quality control inspector?
He kept throwing out all the W&W's!
Have you heard about the Aggie kamikaze pilot?
He flew 22 missions.
An Aggie got a job at an east Texas sawmill. Just before lunch on his first day, he lost a finger. When asked how he lost it, he replied, "I just touched this big spinning thing here like thi...Damn! There goes another one!"
Did you hear about the Aggie that drove his pickup into the lake?
His dog drowned while he tried to get the tailgate down.
Why don't Aggies eat barbecue beans?
Because they keep falling through the holes in the grill.
Why don't Aggies use 911 in an emergency?
Because they can't find "eleven" on the phone dial.
How can you tell an Aggie is on location at a drilling rig?
He's the one throwing bread to the helicopters.
How many Aggies does it take to eat an armadillo?
Two. One to do the eating, and one to watch for cars.
Ice is no longer available in the drinks at the cafeterias at A&M.
The senior who knew the recipe graduated.
Why do Aggies like smart women?
Opposites attract.
An Aggie went hunting and shot two deer. When he went to the taxidermist,
he was asked if he wanted them mounted.
"No," the Aggie replied, "kissing will be fine."
How do you sink a submarine which is manned by Aggies?
Have a diver knock on the hatch.
Did you hear that the A&M library had to close down this year?
Somebody stole the book. That's not all... when it was returned it was all colored in.
The Aggies were playing Baylor. It was near the end of the game and Baylor was ahead by 4. Someone threw a firecracker and the Bears thought it was the gun and ran off the field celebrating.
Three plays later the Aggies scored and won!!
Some Aggies were trying to scare the Longhorn football team before the game and threw firecrackers into the
locker room windows.
The Longhorns lit them and threw them back!
Did you hear about the Houston Cougar that transferred to A&M?
He raised the IQ of both schools!
Then there the Aggie that was hunting in the woods. He happened upon this beautiful woman laying naked in the grass. He asked her, "Are you game?" The woman said "yes."
So he shot her.
How do Aggies practice safe sex?
They get rid of all the animals that kick.
A lucky Aggie won the Texas Lottery. When he went to collect his money they told him he wouldn't get it in one lump sum and that it would be spread over 20 years.
The Aggie erupted and said, "If that's the case, then give me my dollar back!"
There was a group of Aggie science students that wanted to send a probe to the sun, but some UT students said that was impossible and that the probe would burn up long before reaching the sun.
The Aggies replied that they planned to send the probe at night.
Why don't Aggies eat M&M's?
They're too hard to peel.
Did you hear about the Cessna airplane that crashed in a cemetery in College Station recently?
Aggie search and rescue workers have recovered 300 bodies so far and are still digging.
Why did O.J. want move his trial to College Station?
In College Station, everyone has the same DNA.
What do Aggies think Cheerios are?
Donut seeds.
I think that it is a shame the way you pick on the Aggies. After all it was an Aggie engineer that invented the
toilet seat.
...of course a UT engineer stole the design and cut a hole in the middle.
What did the A&M graduate say to the UT graduate upon meeting?
Hi! Welcome to McDonald's, may I take your order please?
What do you call 144 Aggies?
Gross Ignorance!
Did you hear about the Aggie that broke his leg raking leaves?
He fell out of the tree.
What's the Aggie cheer? "I'm an Aggie , I'm an Aggie, I'm and A.G.G.....ah, oh well.. I'm an Aggie, I'm an Aggie,
yea yea yea..."
Why did the Aggie keep a coat hanger in his back seat?
In case he locks the keys in his car.
An Aggie ordered a pizza and the clerk asked if he should cut it in six or twelve pieces.
"Six, please. I could never eat twelve pieces."
Did you hear about the Aggie who got locked out of his car?
He spent two hours trying to get his wife and kids out.
How do you keep an Aggie busy?
Write 'Please turn over' on both sides of a piece of paper.
I bet you didn't know that an Aggie invented the toothbrush.
Of course if anyone else had invented it, it would have been known as a teethbrush!
How do you recognize an Aggie in a department store?
He's the one trying to slam the revolving door.
How do you know when an Aggie has sent you a fax?
When there's a stamp on it.
Why do they throw out a sack of manure at all Aggie weddings?
To keep the flies off the bride.
Why did they install Astroturf at Kyle Field?
To keep the coeds from grazing.
At the end of the night, the Aggie turns to his girlfriend and asks, "Why is it everytime I go out with you, I end up
spending hundreds of dollars?"
And she says, "Because I'm a prostitute."
Why does the Aggie Corps wear uniforms made out of polyester?
There's no virgin wool within a hundred miles of College Station!
Did you hear about the Aggie who was 2 hours late to class?
The escalator was stuck....
nisl----too funny.
Hilarious.....absolutely he-lar-rious!
We elected one governor from Texas and look where that got us. Enough is truly enough.
You've really got to feel for the people of Texas.
On the other hand, they elected this doofus and that other one too.
Got that right!
The real problem is that he still has a formidable political base in Texas, In his 11 years (plus 3 to go) he has appointed damn near every regent, department head, board member, judge etc. He still has a lot of political chips he can use even if he has proven his intellectual challenge
How is that never losing an election working out for ya ? Rickie !
Hmm...is the Governor hedging his bets?
Rick at CPAC when you've proven to the whole country your an idiot.Then you can go to CPAC where you are intellectually superior to every one there. Your not so dumb
How do you get an AGGie off your front porch .... PAY for the Pizza .
"It's halftime in America..."
Why could Perry remember his lines? Because there's only two halfs in football. Good thing he didn't go for a hockey metaphor.
here's the real problem, at least the way i see it.
perry and the republicans had at least 3 days to prepare this comment. not only that, but the first half was already written for them.
this is how its supposed to work, you retards writing the cpac speeches...
it's halftime in america.... *catch phrase*
here. i'll spend 15 seconds coming up with one or two for you.
it's halftime in america.... and we came to play.
it's halftime in america.... and its time to go to the bench.
it's halftime in america.... and we're a second half team.
ok... those are all terrible. whatever. but if i spend a whole minute on it, i might come up with a decent one.
a better one than "it's halftime in america.... and I'm fearful of what the final score is going to be if we let this president start the second half as quarterback"
wtf is that.
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go ahead...
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provide me with at least a reasonably defensible, in a court of law, motivation to shoot you with my thompson contender at point blank range and kill you instantly.
or not.
whatever.
Rick Parrot sitting on Newts shoulder. How is that for a second half.
There are a few seconds left on the clock in America. The president's plays do not work against our awesome DEfense and he is getting ready to throw the hail mary ...