FORMER TEXAS GOVERNOR BOMBS AT INFLUENTIAL PALMETTO GOP EVENT
|| By FITSNEWS || Former Texas governor Rick Perry paid another visit to early-voting South Carolina this week in the hopes of bolstering his 2016 presidential aspirations.
How’d it go?
Not well … Perry had a captive audience of some of the Palmetto State’s most influential people when he addressed a S.C. House Republican Caucus event at City Art in downtown Columbia, S.C. on Tuesday evening. But the event – organized by former SCGOP chairman Katon Dawson – quickly turned into an unmitigated disaster.
Perry’s microphone stopped working about a minute into his remarks … yet he proceeded to ramble on for another thirty-nine minutes.
“No one could hear him,” one attendee told FITS. “And after a few minutes they stopped trying.”
“(His) mic broke after one minute,” another attendee said. “He continued to speak for thirty-nine minutes more. The crowd disengaged after about five minutes. People were going to the bar as he spoke, talking in the buffet line, texting on their phones – walking out. It was a Texas goat rodeo with Perry playing the boring clown – only instead of a red nose he sported those geeky glasses.”
“This guy is toast,” one S.C. Representative told FITS.
What did those who actually heard Perry’s comments thinK?
“Unimpressive,” a lobbyist who attended added, saying the candidate was “canned.”
“Cliché after cliché,” one elected official in attendance told us.
Yikes …
After being anointed as the GOP frontrunner upon his entry into the 2012 race, the Lone Star politician saw his campaign unraveled by poor debate performances. That forced him to abandon his White House bid prior to the “First in the South” presidential primary election – endorsing the candidacy of liberal “Republican” Newt Gingrich.
Looks like his 2016 effort is off to a rocky start …
Perry made headlines last year for his “tough guy” approach to dealing with the issue of illegal immigration (which we suspect South Carolina voters will like) – but he’s also been at the heart of a major scandal associated with his rampant crony capitalism (which we suspect they won’t like).
Of course to get people to like what you’re saying … they have to first be able to hear it.
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Looks like yet another reason to get Lindsey Graham in as president this time around. I think Rick Perry, with his corporatist record in Texas, would make a great running mate for Graham. I’m looking forward to war with Russia!
I can’t wait for us to take their gold reserves & import their vodka at slave labor cost!
Nuclear war will be worth it!
“He couldn’t spell ‘Cat’ if you spotted him the ‘c’ and the ‘a’.”-Hollywood Henderson
It seems some of these pretend candidates are seriously on pills. Palin, now Perry…at least they have a potential excuse for the stupid stuff they’re constantly saying. The rest of them? Might want to start popping.
A great event!!! Perry was well received as was his message on closing the borders and illegal immigration.A big night for Perry.
He needs a good night. With a trail of abuse of power coming up and all. At least the poor dumb oaf has his ‘medicine’.
They don’t call him “Prick Perry” for nothing.
Thanks for your input, Katon
How much did you make off the deal?
Rick was fantastic. So personable and Reagan like. Commanding on the issues.
*Post Alzheimer’s Reagan.
pre hillary stroke
needs work
pre mamatiger stroke
I see Rick was sharing his stash. He is fun to get fucked up with, no doubt. Good ol’ part boy.
How do you know? The idiot was talking into a dead mic for half an hour and the audience was too brain dead to say anything and just sat there. Everyone there was a fucking moron.
What better example of both the leadership and base of the GOP is there?
Perry’s mic failed
Palin’s teleprompter failed
Gibbs’ Rule #39: There is no such thing as coincidence.
Looks like there is someone out there killing off the Cockroaches 1 by 1
Has anyone checked on Eunuch Michael’s whereabouts lately
Unfortunately cockroaches multiply faster than one can step on them.
u and boz have proved that…
I don’t think the old farts on here (you included, Flip) are doing much multiplying any more. Hopefully not ever, but even the mentally retarded get pregnant so…
Math? With the perverts getting married, I like the numbers.
And old bigots dying off everyday. I keep making homosexuals, so that won’t be a problem. My beautiful immigrant children will move in the save the country. If you’re lucky one might even wipe your old drooling ass when the kids put you in a home.
Illegal immigrants being allowed to vote or become citizens? Not for 100 years.
Don’t worry Boehner and the rest of the GOP are helping them to become legal immigrants, as we type. You old crackers aren’t contributing anything to the economy any more. Gotta replace the takers (YouTube) with some makers (immigrants). I’m sure you understand, Flip.
Who designed this auto correct for Apple? Remind me to smite them and their offspring for a thousand generations.
I know John. Will not be immigration reform.
You know John? Then you must know Jeb, Lyndsey and the real powers in the GOP. Orange you glad he’s given Obama and the Dems everything they want?
He has given Obama ‘0’ except a visit from Bibi so he can tell America that Obama is apparently a traitor aka Sgt Birdog?
Bringing Bibi to illustrate who Boehner really answers too, completely backfired. Citizens are realizing people like you and Drunk John hate America and only see the world through a biblical lense, which makes you terribly easily influenced and manipulated. Like I’m doing to you now.
Backfired?Obama sounded like the narcissistic, petulant child that he is about this event and Bibi gonna stick it right up Obama’s half white ass.
Obama is scaring the shit of Democrats about his support of Iran.
Nice to know you support a foreign country dictating policy to us. Why don’t you move to Israel? And nobody with a lick of sense is scared of Iran. Why are you? It dumbass chicken little, cowards like you who got us into Iraq in the first place. Return your head to up in your ass, it’s apparently safer there.
You want Iran and Radical Islamic terrorists inside that regime to have a nuke?
DEMOCRAT Senator Menendez says Obama and his band of socialists occupying the wHite House are apparently working for Iran-spewing their ‘talking points’.
Does that make you proud as an American?
I voted for him. Makes us friends. :)
While they are saving the Country and drool wiping how about a new TV show just for your offsprings
Leave It, It’s Beaver
You are so damn funny…the self-proclaimed independent Republican should have used you as a speech writer instead of spending your wife’s money for a vacation after he quit the race.?
Cockroach GOT YA, dumbass.
Yup. All it takes is a pocket knife and access …
It’s gonna be fun watching all of these bozos self destruct. The entire Iowa Freedom Fart get together was one giant FAIL! There isn’t one serious candidate in the bunch, not one. RIP GOP.
Damn it is entertaining! I hope they can keep it up for another year.
Why did he talk for 30 mins into a unplugged mic and everyone just sat there like a bump on a log? Everybody knows these people are not serious about winning in any way.
The GOP should be required to have presidential primaries every year. It’ll kind of be like a very funny Hunger Games for the entertainment of the nation.
Entertainment? Like Obama getting his ass kicked by his Radical Islamic buddies ISIS and Iran or by the REPUBLICAN controlled congress?
You mean your sad fantasies? The real world is doing fine. We’re enjoying the stupid eating the dumb that is the GOP race for the White House. Glad you and your people here to help sustain this traveling shit show.
lol…what a ticket Howard Dean and Elizabeth Warren would be if stoke victim and the brain injured ‘veggie’ Clinton can’t run?
I wouldn’t be admitting a ‘veggie’, who isn’t even officially running, is doing circles around your ‘best and brightest’, but it is the reality of the situation so kudos to you.
They are hiding her after the book tour. My ‘sources’ tell me it was obvious she is damaged from whatever brain trauma she suffered.
The party has no choice but to run her though-Biden is brain damaged and all the other candidates are marxists.
Oh, I get FoxNews too. Our ‘sources’ tell us all sorts of inaccurate stuff. I can see how you got to where you’re at.
Never heard that stuff on Fox. Anyway, Fox is typically a week or more behind me.
Oh, you’re like Sarah Palin now? FoxNews is just ‘quasi-right’ media, now that even those water carriers are calling Trump, Palin & Christie joke candidates. Where do the real wing nuts get their news from now?
I get my news from the same sources as everybody else. God Blessed me with a college professor however that allows me to reinterpret history and world events from a Biblical christian perspective.
In other words I can read the fiction,falsehoods and lies from the media find the ‘truth’. :-)
“Fiction, falsehoods and lies”. Yes, you obviously reinterpret history and world events from a biblical bullshit perspective. Your unyielding stupidity is testament to that, Flip.
Think outside the box once in awhile and quit reading The Communist Manifesto and watching Rev. Jeremiah Wright sermons.Turn off MSNBC.Reading FITS is okay if I am here too translate. :)
Like dinasours? We all know the world was created in 1731, around October 1st I think.
Your “sources” in the local crazy house? I don’t know I’d be listening too much to them. They also were “certain” Romney would win in 2012, that McCain was a shoe in for 2008 and that Sarah Palin is the brightest person on the planet. What proof bourbon you puttin’ in your tea these days.
She’s probably undergoing an amazing plastic surgery transformation in Brazil…
Tell’em what you really think
What are gas prices like in NE Ohio this morning, Flip?
Down .02.
Thanks Obama!
You’re welcome. More fun to come.
No spike?
http://xkcd.com/386/
RIP GOP?
The GOP only has the most US House members since 1932.
Majority in the Senate.
Most Governorships.
Most state legislatures.
Sad but true … But it took ’em ’till 1939 to finally get a tax cut, even with the right kind of music.
Yep. And all of Obama’s policies roll on. While the GOP’s crop of 2016 contenders keep the Happless Fool Express. Looking forward to the next stop!
What policies (plural?). He has ONE-Obamacare and it destroying the economy-at least until SCOTUS ends it in June.
For the most part, the economy is treating us fine. You are not even in the work force, so how would you know? And for the love of God, please don’t use shitty ass SC as a litmus test for the rest of the country, Flip.
Sure I am in the work force. Just don’t work 8-5, 5 days a week, 12 months a year.
The economy sucks. If gas prices had not dropped by the % it did my guess is Obama would have been impeached.
No you’re not, Flip. lol. FitsNews might throw you a bone…
Right on American People, Right on. Hey Guest / Flip / Sandi – how’s the weather this morning in Crapville? Oh that’s right, you’re up in Ohio. So that must be Sewerville, Ohio – just southeast of Philadelphia off I-77?
A survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds 64 percent of Americans believe that, if the law is dismantled by the Supreme Court, Congress should act to allow people in states without their own exchanges to continue to receive federal subsidies. This includes 40 percent of Republicans surveyed and a firm majority of Democrats and independents.
Dang! Even da Republicans like Obamacare. Because day knowz – Obama Cares for You!
Don’t worry – they’ll screw it up.
I knew it!!! Damn Rocky just gave us the Democrat Party campaign slogan for 2016!!!
From Obama’s ‘Hope You Will Give ME Your Change’ to ‘Don’t worry-WE’LL SCREW YOU AGAIN’
Hillary is MIA fur ten days now … She may be the first. Got cattle futures?
electro shock or ass reduction?
Canned Perry. I prefer it fresh, but sometimes all you can get is canned.
Biden only embarrasses himself when the mic is on. Maybe Hillary can give us some more ebonics.
Letting your inner racist out today I see. Republicans just can’t keep it in forever.
A rich white suburban ivy league woman talking ebonics? Now that’s racist.
That was HILARIOUS. Can you post the video of Al Gore doing the same thing? Or Harry Reid calling Obama a ‘clean’ black? Or Biden talking about the ‘tow heads’ at Dunkin Donuts?
Take that POS Katon Dawson designed trophey that neither University wants on campus and throw it in the Brazos River.
Perry’s microphone stopped working about a minute into his remarks …
It sounds like someone has taken a page out of Lee Atwater’s book.
… or Tricky Dick Nixon’ book.
When my children are even too stupid to see a blatant fraud right in front of their own eyes and ears, I must step in.
Doesn’t he look like a guy who wears glasses who shouldn’t wear glasses?
I don’t know…I just look at Texas prospering, and I don’t give a D*#n what the guy looks like…especially while so much of America suffers under your lord-god Obama…
Maybe you ought a get some glasses…you seem like a Blind-Dumb@$$, w/o them….
All those immigrants have really helped the economy here in TX. Perry has done a great job letting them poor in. I hire them all the time. Cheap, hard work. Funny people. Family oriented.
Sure Rocky. I will add Texas to your list of favorite destinations.
Oh, Dude, I hate Texas. Nothing to do with GOP or demographics – I just hate the place. Flat, hot, no trees. The Hill Country outside of Austin is cool, but the rest of it – give it back to Mexico. But there are some rockin’ Mexican places to eat east side of Love Field.
lol…I had you figured for ‘South of the Border’ on l-95, Pedro.
You are fucking stupid, Rocky. Please, you live in one of the shittiest places in the country and you’re going to dis Texas? That’s fucking funny. Stay in SC and keep supporting the GOP, then whine and argue like some kind of righteous hypocrite. You, Flip and GrandTango can enjoy your political circle jerk into oblivion.
Hold on there Bones. I’m a Blue Card member of the Democratic Party. I just don’t like Texas as a place to visit. I’m not saying SC is an Eden of intellectual enlightenment and progressive improvements. I’m just saying, sir, that at 105-degrees – I prefer a sea breeze and the shade of a live oak tree. And I’m sorry about saying give it back to Mexico. That’s not really called for. They’ve already taken it back in a way.
Whatever. Might want to look out the window before you start talking shit about other states, Scrub. Why as a democrat you would stay there is beyond me? I guess the Dems have their underachievers too?
Funny you should mention that. Starting to look seriously at Florida. Tropical weather, hot Latin chicks, no income taxes.
…More republicans to live under. Admit it. You are a closeted Republican. How fucking weird. You prefer their policies when it comes to governing your life. You’ll fuss and hissy here, but when it comes to it, you would never live in a state run by Democrats. But why all the vitriol towards them? Only in the South, I suppose.
And the way they renovate run down housing and build thriving communities. Hey, let’s see if in Crapville Flip and Grand Tango can get them to self deport. They probably gots lots of ’em around there – don’t they live north of Florence.
Poor glasses. They got saddled with the one guys who makes glasses look stupid.
Buddy Holly
oo-wee-oo, he looks just like Buddy Holly
oh-oh, and I’m Mary Tyler Moore
Rick Perry for President – you choose his new
theme song from Buddy Holly
——————
That’ll Be The Day
Maybe Baby
Rave On
Think It Over
It’s So Easy
Real Wild Child
Perry’s current campaign is resembling the last minutes of Holly’s life.
Maybe Baby – I’ll win now.
Maybe Baby – I’ll know how.
Maybe Baby – I can’t remember – the words.
Maybe Baby – I’ll pound Pedro.
Maybe Baby – I’ll go to a rodeo.
Maybe Baby – I’ll find a way to beat Jeb.
We’ll the Bush family hates, hates me so owo –
They’re the Texas family that makes me know-owe
Just one time, they’ll let me be, Oh I hope so, let’s wait and see—
Maybe Baby – I won’t be invited.
Maybe Baby – I know I’m indicted.
Maybe Baby – the jury won’t send me to the jail.
pretty good..!!
Question is, can Rick tune his Stratocaster?
How was Obama’s visit?…Oops…I forgot. He didn’t come. Obama knows the Stupid Son-of-a- B!*#hs voting for him in SC will do so Blindly…
If Obama cannot personally profit..Obama says SCREW YOU…Same w/ Hillary…
And they both know FITS will lemming-like Kiss their @$$#$ – and BASH Republicans – ’cause “Pootlian tells him to…
Obama doesn’t need votes in 2016, he already won his two elections. :)
Isn’t a president supposed to serve the WHOLE country…not just when he needs votes???…
Or, are you saying Obama is a selfish, dis-compassionate A$$-hole when he cannot get something for himself out of it?
I thought Romney was the one saying he wasn’t worried about 47% of the country.
So that means Romney cares about 53%…
Obama – and the Democrat Fatcats, do not give a F*#k about anybody but themselves. That’s obvious by the way Obama has governed…..and they say F*#k 80% of America…unless they look like a fortunate son of Obama…
You serve, hate greed and power…I’m just glad you admit Romney said he would serve the majority of working, contributing Americans…
5.6% unemployment. Gas below $2. DOW at record highs. Home values increasing 5-6% a year. Why do you resent success for America so much? Why do you and Guest / Flip / Sandi hate America? Why? Why do you hate America?
“Isn’t a president supposed to serve the WHOLE country…not just when he needs votes???…”
Give Obama a break…he can only serve this half of this country when his full-time job is ‘serving’ and defending Radical Islam,ISIS,Iran,Cuba and any other foreign enemy that buddies up with Muhammed.
You actually GET IT…Bravo…
Michelle doesn’t seem to know that.
Good point…I think the Democrat Party is beginning to realize they MUST have a Black candidate on the ballot to get the thugs, multi-voters and cheaters to come out, like they did in 2012…
The New Black Panthers will NOT intimidate or club anyone for a haggard old white skank like Hillary….
Clinton v Bush – Clinton by 13. Clinton v Christie – Clinton by 13. Clinton v Walker – Clinton by 13. Clinton v Rubio – Clinton by 23. And that’s this week. Another 12 months of Congress unable do anything – she’ll be up by 20 on all of them.
Means nothing. Election will be 51%-49% either way. Depends on Republican candidate and voter fraud.
As long as you run an imaginary race, I’m sure it’s comforting to you…Enjoy it…
Ignorance is Bliss…and you may be one of the most Blissful MoFos I’ve ever witnessed…LMAO….
Can we quote you on this? BTW – thanks again for Congress voting to fully fund Obamacare through FY2015. To infinity and beyond.
And the Gray Panthers and taxpayers have joined the tea parties … LOL.
I’ll take em…LOL…
and destroyed the Democrat party at both the state and national levels….
Changing the subject: A debater is clearly losing when he tries to redirect the attention of the audience to another subject area where he thinks he can look better relative to the person he is debating, but admits to no change of subject and pretends to be refuting the original on-subject statement of his opponent.
Losing?
How can there be a winner on a site that is one-sided, close-minded, hate-filled and mired in the failure of its heroes…???
I’m not here to win a debate. There is no debate. You are ignorant Dumb@$$#$…I’m just pointing it out…
Are you so F*#king stupid you have not figured that out?
I rest my case.
You’re too F*#king stupid to ever make a case, that I’ve seen…
Stupid is as stupid says – Stupid!
You couldn’t win a debate, so you rant. Very poorly at that.
He wins EVERY debate and why the FSCOB attacks him so viciously.
Don’t need to win. Obama won the debate for me…by being a total F*#k up, and making idiots, like you, look like Duumb@$$#$ for sucking him off…
5.6% unemployment. Gas below $2. DOW at record highs. Home values increasing 5-6% a year.
Fantasize much?
Those are facts Tango, but I’m sure they don’t make it to Flip News on your local WCRP Crapville TV station.
Is that why you brought up gas prices in Ohio on a thread about Perry?
Try harder.
Flip who?
mama you are slippin
On the contrary, I be bold.
Monkeying with the PA equipment was one of many dirty tricks pioneered by Nixon’s CREP operatives …
One wonders what took Perry’s opposition so long to figure that out.
I read yesterday a Republican judge in Texas refused to throw out the charges against Perry for abuse of power. When was the last time a major party presidential candidate was under indictment?
Its political. The Democrats are terrified of Perry. They know there is no one who could defeat him, so they are attempting to tarnish him with this false indictment.
Actually, I think the Bush family is first in line for tarnishing Ricky. They hate that guy.
It’s political? The prosecutor who filed against him was a Republican as was the judge who refused to throw out the charges.
Meanwhile – Tea Party supports voice their views on the GOP from Red State’s comment boards:
1. I would propose not voting for ANY Republican candidate in the coming election cycle, unless they are proven warriors for the conservative insurgency (a Ted Cruz, a Mike Lee type); or extremely credible challengers who have knocked off incumbents.
2. I have seen this for decades: the Conservatives get the rhetoric, but not the results.
3. I do not see any viable solutions to defeating Obama’s destructive actions from this gutless, greedy, traitorous bunch of cowards in the Republican Establishment
That there is some stunning unity.
I think Perry was here in Spartanburg that morning (Tuesday 27 January).
I haven’t heard how it went but there was a free breakfast is all I remember reading about…………….I could see going if I had no job and needed some breakfast)
Perry was probably stupid there as well…………….. But if the free coffee,juice, eggs,bacon,grits and bisquits was passable it wasn’t a total loss
Next time he comes to SC, he will bring his own microphone.
Next time? When will he complete his sentence?
Look, everybody has a bad day. Perry is still the best and brightest the Republican Party has to offer.
The smart ones should steer clear of Naughty Nikki – she’s the kiss of death – she sure helped Mitt last time out. At some point Cruz will ride in and clean up.
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Rick Perry has had too many same sex partners ‘come out’ to not think he’s Bi.
Columbia is a safe city for cruising politicians..