# Rick Perry Needs to Shut Up **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 7, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407 "2011-12-07T19:49:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/41 "2011-12-08T03:20:45Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > They’re on the “Channel Comments.” Just scroll down a little on the right hand side. Ta. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/42 "2011-12-08T03:25:00Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > In the Prop 8 campaign we learned that Christians are persecuted if society exposes their kids to two gay people holding hands. I love it when in the thread about outrageous exaggeration coming from someone on the right the resident lefties think a good argument is another outrageous exaggeration. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/43 "2011-12-08T03:25:00Z")
That there is a _Texas sized_ helping of stupid! ---
**Author:** ![abbeytxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@abbeytxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbeytxs)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/44 "2011-12-08T03:31:36Z")
Apparently Mr. Perry didn’t get his own memo - [http://governor.state.tx.us/photos/3843/](http://governor.state.tx.us/photos/3843/) The Perry family wishes us all Happy Holidays - no mention of Christmas! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/45 "2011-12-08T03:46:26Z")
> [@abbeytxs](#): > > Apparently Mr. Perry didn’t get his own memo - [http://governor.state.tx.us/photos/3843/](http://governor.state.tx.us/photos/3843/) The Perry family wishes us all Happy Holidays - no mention of Christmas! Wow first he squelches my voice and tramples my first amendment rights by disabling comments on his video on Youtube… and now I find out that way back in 2003 he declared war on Christmas by wishing us all happy holidays? PERRY, WHY WON’T YOU LET ME CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/46 "2011-12-08T05:36:13Z")
Now, now, I remember when Obama showed up in Joplin after the tornado, for a very, very religious memorial service. Unlike Governor Jay Nixon (also from the Democratic Party), who gave an explicitly Christian little speech; Obama actually gave a very neutral, non-sectarian speech appropriate to a pluralistic country, without actually using the word, “Jesus.” If that’s not proof the whole Democratic Party is out to crush religious expression, what would be? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/47 "2011-12-08T05:44:23Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Alas, he’s still Our Problem. But let’s look at some fine prose from [The Texas Observer](http://www.texasobserver.org/forrestforthetrees/think-rick-perrys-collapsing-campaign-is-funny-the-jokes-on-you-texas)… > > > [@](#): > > > > Rick Perry is collapsing faster than a $10 tent in a hurricane. He’s a house of cards built of nothing but one-eyed jackasses. He’s the punchline to every Aggie joke ever told. By the time this column is printed, he’ll probably be trailing in the polls to Newt Gingrich’s jowls. Or maybe he’ll have given himself a swirly on national television. > > > > For Texans who never bought into Perry’s, um, uh … thing … the last two months have been pure schadenfreude. You just can’t help yourself, right? Watching Gov. Goodhair’s 27-year electoral win streak melt away under the klieg lights during debates with such luminaries as Rick Santorum and Herman Cain is simply great fun. > > > > Molly Ivins would be pleased. Even Republicans are heeding her Bush-era advice: “The next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be in the White House, would you please pay attention?” > > > > But schadenfreude has its limitations. It’s like a sugar high—it wears off fast. And when it does, what are we left with? :D:D:D That is pure awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/48 "2011-12-08T07:15:06Z")
> [@abbeytxs](#): > > Apparently Mr. Perry didn’t get his own memo - [http://governor.state.tx.us/photos/3843/](http://governor.state.tx.us/photos/3843/) The Perry family wishes us all Happy Holidays - no mention of Christmas! Oops. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/49 "2011-12-08T07:30:35Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > You just have to know [which verses of the Bible are the parts God didn’t really mean](http://www.eatliver.com/img/2011/7991.jpg). Brilliant! Thanks for sharing that! ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/50 "2011-12-08T11:26:08Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > The ad is on [youtube](http://www.youtube.com/user/RPerry2012?v=0PAJNntoRgA). It has 436 “likes” and 14,771 “dislikes.” The comments are great. Like/Dislike was still working this morning. The numbers were: Number of likes 3098 Number of dislikes 132023 ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/51 "2011-12-08T14:52:13Z")
People seem to be still adding comments… ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/52 "2011-12-08T15:41:26Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > > [@Voyager](#): > > > > In the Prop 8 campaign we learned that Christians are persecuted if society exposes their kids to two gay people holding hands. > > I love it when in the thread about outrageous exaggeration coming from someone on the right the resident lefties think a good argument is another outrageous exaggeration. I’ll bet I can find someone espousing the viewpoint Voyager claims exists (gays holding hands is bad for children) on the first page of a Google search. Yep, I did. Here’s an entire children’s book (from 1998, even!) about telling your kids that two men holding hands is evil, and that acceptance of homosexuality “must be countered”. > [@http://www.iwgonline.org/ktf/archive/1998/november/](#): > > One book listed is called “Mommy, Why Are They Holding Hands?” The cover blurbs say: “The nation’s first Bible-based children’s book focused on preventing homosexuality,” and, “A story to help children learn what the Bible says about the sin of homosexuality.” The text for the ad reads: “Homosexuality is commonly discussed on television, radio, and in print.\*\* In public schools, homosexual activists portray homosexuality as ‘normal.’ The messages must be countered at home.\*\* But how? In this illustrated story for children in grades three through five, young Sarah sees two men holding holding hads at the mall and discovers, as her mother leads her through the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, what God’s Word says about sin and forgiveness.” ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/53 "2011-12-08T16:13:41Z")
Either Rick Perry is a massively subversive troll, or he’s totally clueless, or he’s in the closet. [Check out his jacket](http://i.imgur.com/TuQkM.jpg) - it’s from Brokeback Mountain. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/54 "2011-12-08T16:20:06Z")
(yes, I realize that’s a very common jacket among ranchers, but it’s funny nevertheless) ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/55 "2011-12-08T16:21:44Z")
As I pointed out over on Facebook, it’s sad but true: in the zoo that is American politics, unfortunately, the Giant Pander Bear isn’t an endangered species. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/56 "2011-12-08T16:55:27Z")
[A modest rebuttal…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BbrI3F7p6-o) ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/57 "2011-12-08T17:53:40Z")
> [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](#): > > Either Rick Perry is a massively subversive troll, or he’s totally clueless, or he’s in the closet. [Check out his jacket](http://i.imgur.com/TuQkM.jpg) - it’s from Brokeback Mountain. > [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](#): > > (yes, I realize that’s a very common jacket among ranchers, but it’s funny nevertheless) It’s not the same one either - the lining looked fluffier on the BB one but it was hard to tell from that pic since it cuts off just below the shoulder. But I found a [shot from Brokeback](http://img.listal.com/image/1004173/600full-brokeback-mountain-screenshot.jpg) that shows the full torso while wearing the jacket. Notice Perry’s has several horizontal seams, as well as a vertical zipper, that are absent on the BB one. And the style of the front pockets is completely different, with flaps on the BB one that are absent on Perry’s. Sorry to rain on your parade, as he’s probably still a closeted homosexual (and his jacket wouldn’t have proved it anyway), but my insufferable urge to nitpick is overwhelming today. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/58 "2011-12-08T17:54:33Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Like/Dislike was still working this morning. The numbers were: > > Number of likes 3098 > Number of dislikes 132023 Those are pretty astounding numbers. Normally I’d expect you’d get a bunch of dittoheads just punching the “like” button because he’s a Republican. But this ad is running at a 2.3% “like” rate. I suspect that you could put up a UTube video praising the dismembering of kittens and get about that many “likes” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/59 "2011-12-08T18:09:50Z")
That is authentic election year gibberish. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407/60 "2011-12-08T19:43:59Z")
People like Perry are as common as dirt back in my native Texas. It’s because of people like Perry that I moved out of that racist, flag-rubbing, bible-thumping hell hole without ever looking back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407.md?page=4)