Pretty much sums it up. Oh, silly candidates, is there no stupidity you can’t do?
Doesn’t this approach negate the intelligence-ifying super power of Perry’s glasses?
Trump has to have someone pull up his pants for him in the morning.
The article also contains this gem:
Which implies to me that, I dunno, Perry’s camp expected Trump to come to the border photo op wearing fatigues and combat boots, prepared to shoot it out with coyotes and drug smugglers.
Actually, I’d rather wear golf shoes in a crisis situation than the stereotypical Texan cowboy boot. I bought some boots back when they were a bit of a thing back in the 80’s, and I’ve never owned such uncomfortable footwear.
I am holding out hope for an actual dick-measuring contest.
I guess when you can’t get your name in the news, you try to glom onto someone else’s newsworthiness in whatever pathetic way.
You’re holding out for them to hold it out? 
We’ve had physical challenges of machoism.
We’ve had a reality-show satire playing out as a legitimate candidate. Trump really is a Real Housewife of a candidate, isn’t he?
We’ve had a Gaudere’s Law incident with Huckabee invoking the Holocaust.
Just hilarious.
Will it be Mickey, Mouse Frozen, Doc McStuffins or Disney Princess Pull-Ups?
I assume that all of the candidates have handlers. 
I want the Festivise poll and “Feats of Strength”.
Trump - “I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you’re gonna hear about it!”
A while back, the paper had a pic of Perry doing a “one armed pullup”. However, he was cheating by grabbing his wrist with his other hand. Essentially, that’s still a two armed pullup. It’s non-intuitive, but having one hand grab the bar and the other hand grab the wrist is no harder than a normal pullup. A true one armed pullup means only one arm is doing the lifting and the other arm hangs free, which is very, very challenging.
I have no doubt he can do more pullups than Trump, but I’m sure Perry thinks he can beat anyone because he thinks he’s a pullup champion because he can do his special “one armed pullup”.
Cowboy boots are good for when you’re performing, you know, cowboy activities. Herding cattle, riding into town on a Saturday night, stuff like that. Anything else, not so much.
So when Perry gets elected president, is that a component of his foreign policy? Challenge Putin to a pullup contest?
Who do these embarrassing morons think they are, Vladimir Putin?
ETA: Dammit Frank, you sneaky assed ninja.
That’s what I was thinking of when I read the thread title.
Oh, how I love our election cycles…
No need to conjecture re: Putin and pull-ups. It’s established fact that Ronald Reagan Won The Cold War by being able to perform more pull-ups than Mookie Gorbachev.
I’d liken this thread to shooting fish in a barrel, if it weren’t the fish who are doing the shooting. 
Q: what’s the over/under on Perry’s poll numbers in response to great Pull-up Gambit?
When Huffpo ran an article featuring a pic of him in the glasses, I commented: “that’s a right triangle, you idiot!” 
My prediction for the contest:
Rick Perry does two Pull-Ups and then forgets what he was supposed to be doing, the audience laughs. The alien on Trump’s head takes another, fitter, host and wins easily.
And that, of course, is why John McCain could never get elected - his inability to raise his arms above his shoulders would put our national security in severe jeopardy if he ever had to go one-on-one in the gym with our enemies.
I feel like I need infinite supplies of popcorn this political season.
Yeah, but jolly ranchers would hurt more and are more likely to chase those clowns off of the stage.
Actually, that brings up a great new idea for public participation during the debates!
1)Build a cement wall behind the stage and add iron bars with a jail-cell door to stage right as well as to stage left.
2)Make sure that the candidates know that if they leave the stage at any time before the official end of the debate, they may not be listed on the ballot in any state.
3) Make sure to supply the crowd with cartons of fruit, vegetables, and eggs…
4) Profit!