Students Embarrass Rick Perry With Explicit Questions About Gay Sex During College Visit

[Keith&Co.]

If you can't face questions about where the peeny goes, maybe you shouldn't make public statements about the government deciding where the peeny goes...

A question would have been fine. A deluge of questions about the same topic, although funny, isn't really fine in the context of a college lecture.

Why not? It's the students asking the questions, showing that it's a topic that is important to them. He's made sex a political topic. He's put up, but wishes others would shut up.

Like Palin trying to sell herself as a soccer mom, but not wanting the media to discuss her family. You can't enter a baking contest but not let the judges taste your cake. Or, you can try, but don't act butt-hurt (!) if people don't give you a pass on that.

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It's funny to call homosexuals butt pirates again?

No. But it's very okay to taunt Perry with the term...

 

[PyramidHead]

Unlike Nice Squirrel, I look forward to the day when this type of taunting DOES become the norm for people like Perry. Just as a Klansman running for office should rightly be booed and heckled the moment he walks onstage.

 

[dismal]

Unlike Nice Squirrel, I look forward to the day when this type of taunting DOES become the norm for people like Perry. Just as a Klansman running for office should rightly be booed and heckled the moment he walks onstage.

Yes, plus also when someone wants to raise taxes on the rich or regulate banks. With any luck we can shift our entire political discourse down to a 3rd grade level.

Next time Obama or Hillary bring up minimum wage I look forward to them being asked:

"Would you pay a butt pirate $10.10 per hour to stick his weewee in your poopyhole?"

 

[Derec]

Unlike Nice Squirrel, I look forward to the day when this type of taunting DOES become the norm for people like Perry. Just as a Klansman running for office should rightly be booed and heckled the moment he walks onstage.

What positions other than gay sex and white racism (I doubt a black racist would get the same treatment) should make one subject to heckling? Support of Israel? Criticism of Islam (like Ayan Hirsi Ali or Bill Maher)? Opposition to so-called affirmative action? Merely being member of the GOP or a "third way" "DLC" Democrat? Where do we stop with this?

 

[PyramidHead]

Unlike Nice Squirrel, I look forward to the day when this type of taunting DOES become the norm for people like Perry. Just as a Klansman running for office should rightly be booed and heckled the moment he walks onstage.

Yes, plus also when someone wants to raise taxes on the rich or regulate banks. With any luck we can shift our entire political discourse down to a 3rd grade level.

Next time Obama or Hillary bring up minimum wage I look forward to them being asked:

"Would you pay a butt pirate $10.10 per hour to stick his weewee in your poopyhole?"

Nice false equivalence. I'm not surprised that you're on the wrong side of history yet again.

 

[PyramidHead]

Unlike Nice Squirrel, I look forward to the day when this type of taunting DOES become the norm for people like Perry. Just as a Klansman running for office should rightly be booed and heckled the moment he walks onstage.

What positions other than gay sex and white racism (I doubt a black racist would get the same treatment) should make one subject to heckling? Support of Israel? Criticism of Islam (like Ayan Hirsi Ali or Bill Maher)? Opposition to so-called affirmative action? Merely being member of the GOP or a "third way" "DLC" Democrat? Where do we stop with this?

Let's let the moral zeitgeist decide. Gay people will have the same rights as everybody else eventually, and anybody who fails to embrace that fact will end up looking like Strom Thurmond in a decade, ignored by virtually everybody except to point and laugh, which is what people like them deserve. Are you and dismal really trying to equate this issue with one of your hobby horses?

 

[dismal]

Yes, plus also when someone wants to raise taxes on the rich or regulate banks. With any luck we can shift our entire political discourse down to a 3rd grade level.

Next time Obama or Hillary bring up minimum wage I look forward to them being asked:

"Would you pay a butt pirate $10.10 per hour to stick his weewee in your poopyhole?"

Nice false equivalence. I'm not surprised that you're on the wrong side of history yet again.

I thought asking politicians about butt pirates and peepyholes was on the right side of history.

Did it change again?

 

[PyramidHead]

Nice false equivalence. I'm not surprised that you're on the wrong side of history yet again.

I thought asking politicians about butt pirates and peepyholes was on the right side of history.

Did it change again?

Keep digging.

 

[Bronzeage]

Somehow it is edited out of the College Republicans video feed.

And while funny, let's not let discourse devolve to this as a standard.

Why not? What's the worst that could happen?

I think it would be a good idea to start every political debate with a statement from each candidate, describing their position on anal sex, followed by a top to bottom exploration of their experience in the matter.

I have other ideas, also.

 

[Jarhyn]

Unlike Nice Squirrel, I look forward to the day when this type of taunting DOES become the norm for people like Perry. Just as a Klansman running for office should rightly be booed and heckled the moment he walks onstage.

What positions other than gay sex and white racism (I doubt a black racist would get the same treatment) should make one subject to heckling? Support of Israel? Criticism of Islam (like Ayan Hirsi Ali or Bill Maher)? Opposition to so-called affirmative action? Merely being member of the GOP or a "third way" "DLC" Democrat? Where do we stop with this?

We stop with it when peoe stop reviving thoroughly investigated and factually false claims and the positions that rest on those claims.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Somehow it is edited out of the College Republicans video feed.

And while funny, let's not let discourse devolve to this as a standard.

Why not? What's the worst that could happen?

I think it would be a good idea to start every political debate with a statement from each candidate, describing their position on anal sex, followed by a top to bottom exploration of their experience in the matter.

I have other ideas, also.

Damn straight.
Lots of politicians craft careful planks to take a firm stand on, choosing topics that they're sure no one will have a quibble with. Things that are easy to demonize because no one else wants to get on camera and be associated with a countering stance.

So, if a politician truly believes that the very fabric of society is harmed by where we stick our peenies, then he should be prepared to respond to questions, to defend his stance.
If they want to raise taxes, or lower taxes, and it's the result of rational thought ,they should be able to defend the process if challenged by critics.

When they fold, like this, i have to wonder if they actually thought up a plank, or adopted a visible profile just for the votes.

Ask. Question. Challenge.

If Perry was prepard to defend his position on homosexuality, then the students are reduced to being hecklers. but in this case, they smelled blood and started circling like sharks. Either he doesn't honestly hold the position, or holds it for reasons that don't stand up to scrutiny.... Call the bluff.

 

[Bronzeage]

Why not? What's the worst that could happen?

I think it would be a good idea to start every political debate with a statement from each candidate, describing their position on anal sex, followed by a top to bottom exploration of their experience in the matter.

I have other ideas, also.

Damn straight.
Lots of politicians craft careful planks to take a firm stand on, choosing topics that they're sure no one will have a quibble with. Things that are easy to demonize because no one else wants to get on camera and be associated with a countering stance.

So, if a politician truly believes that the very fabric of society is harmed by where we stick our peenies, then he should be prepared to respond to questions, to defend his stance.
If they want to raise taxes, or lower taxes, and it's the result of rational thought ,they should be able to defend the process if challenged by critics.

When they fold, like this, i have to wonder if they actually thought up a plank, or adopted a visible profile just for the votes.

Ask. Question. Challenge.

If Perry was prepard to defend his position on homosexuality, then the students are reduced to being hecklers. but in this case, they smelled blood and started circling like sharks. Either he doesn't honestly hold the position, or holds it for reasons that don't stand up to scrutiny.... Call the bluff.

Perry is kind of a dolt, in that lovable Texas dolt kind of way, but he is sharp enough to recognize a minefield without getting his foot blown off. Gay marriage, gay sex, and gay whatever is a subject that not Republican wants to discuss with a less than friendly audience. There is a core of hypocrisy at the center and the slightest questioning reveals it. The standard GOP line cannot be defended with scientific evidence, so the only thing left is religious proscription. Once that issue is raised, it's fair to ask why these particular scriptures are important, while hundreds of others(stoning adulterers, burning witches, etc) are disregarded in modern terms.

The discussion quickly leaves gay sex behind and becomes about whether the speaker truly believes the Bible is God breathed(a theological metaphor). Once it is admitted that some parts of the Bible are more important than others, the religious object argument collapses and they are left with the "gay sex is icky" position, which has all the intellectual weight of decaf vs regular coffee.

 

[Angry Floof]

Unlike Nice Squirrel, I look forward to the day when this type of taunting DOES become the norm for people like Perry. Just as a Klansman running for office should rightly be booed and heckled the moment he walks onstage.

Me, too. As long as willfully ignorant, zealous fucksticks insist on putting their hands down the pants of every citizen, then I fully support challenging them this way. It's ideological dementia that can completely erode a person's ability to understand boundaries and know what the fuck is their business and what's not. Laugh that shit out of existence.