Rick Perry: "Save a pretzel for the gas jets"

[Video Link] He must've been coached. (Via Dangerous Minds)

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David Pescovitz

Wow, Perry is better than most avant-garde poets I’ve heard.
Bucket

I’d vote for him if he actually spoke like this.

It’s much more sane than the things he says in real life.
citoyenmag

Weird. People in Texas always call me “tamal-ee,” too. Is that a thing? Also, Kwanzaa CDs!!!
scifijazznik

I was eating some trail mix when I watched this and I nearly choked. I was disappointed to find out it was not done by Colbert SuperPAC.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FKHDCIS27XPE6ZFY6MWMN5UYRQ grima

He’s out-Rumsfelding Rumsfeld.
bman08

I’m going to take him up on those kwanza CDs.
Brainspore

Why have I not heard of Bad Lip Reading before now? That video almost cost me a keyboard.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Watch the Blackeyed Peas one.
  - Brainspore
    
    Thanks a lot, asshole. I watched it last night and now I still can’t get the “everybody poops” chorus out of my head.
    - The Turtle
      
      I should not have ate those Cajun rice and beans…
  - The Turtle
    
    “…cause she got bowel issues…”
- The Turtle
  
  Because you shunned Rebecca Black, and therefore, fine parody of Rebecca Black.
  
  She is the gateway drug.
http://twitter.com/adamrice Adam Rice

This is more lucid than he sounded in the most recent debate.
Antinous / Moderator

I’ve never really looked at him before. Is that a rug? A bad rug?
- http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul
  
  Molly Ivins used to call him “Lt. Governor Goodhair” and said he made the Bush family look like a bunch of Nobel laureates.
GlenBlank

Via the ever-helpful Yahoo Answers:

Does a sex tape sans toupee of Rick Perry exist?

Read my lips: No new Texans!
http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

Three words: Happy in Paraguay
xkot

The Black Eyed Peas one slayed me. I am writing from beyond the grave. Beware.
Lobster

*snaps fingers*
wrecksdart

You keep posting this stuff, but I AM TRYING TO WORK HERE! Spilled my coffee, too…
The Turtle

“HOT YELLA KOOL-AID!”
efemmeral

” I AM BORED BY FAMINE. I CANNOT WAIT FOR A MEDIEVAL COOKIE . . . ” Sweet Jesus, I love you people!
efemmeral

I hate myself. I got aroused watching him walk while saying, “Now, what I wanchatadoo is build me a small doghouse”.