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A bad back doomed any chance Perry stood to break through. It became an open secret that he was using painkillers in sufficient dosages to keep him standing through the two-hour debates. The manager of a rival campaign was at a urinal in an empty bathroom in Hanover, New Hampshire, before the Bloomberg News debate on October 11, when he heard someone come through the door loudly singing “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.” Wondering who was making all the noise, the campaign manager turned his head and saw, to his surprise, the governor of Texas. Perry came down the row of about twenty urinals and stood companionably close by. Nonplussed, the campaign manager made a hasty exit; as the bathroom door closed, he could hear Perry still merrily singing away: “I-I-I’ve been working on the ra-a-i-i-l-road, all-l-l the live-long day …” Asked about the episode, a top campaign official said, “He whistles. I wouldn’t read anything into it.”

Oof, Rick Perry. (Politico via Gawker)

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“I like Mitt Romney as much as one really good-looking man can like another really good-looking man—without breaking the law in Texas.”

—Texas Gov. Rick Perry joking about his former Republican rival Mitt Romney at Saturday’s Gridiron dinner in Washington, via the Washington Post. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Rick Perry at the FFC rally in Myrtle Beach (Taken with instagram)

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Myrtle Beach SC (Taken with instagram)

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And here it is America, the 2012 GOP sand sculpture you’ve been waiting for (Taken with instagram)

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Caption contest!

[via @GovernorPerry]

Oh Rick Perry

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One thing you have to appreciate about Rick Perry is that his Twitter feed is never boring. While Mitt Romney’s fan boy pic with Robert Pattinson was pretty amusing, his feed has gone totally vanilla since he officially launched his second bid for the White House.

Rick Perry, on the other hand, still posts super odd photos every week. Example: this weird arty photo of him jogging in Des Moines (“Rick Perry in ‘Brick,” tweeted Ben Domenech) and, just today, a photo of him prepping for the New Hampshire debate AT THE GUN RANGE. Look out Mitt!!

Noted: Rick Perry posted this photo on Twitter today.

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Noted: Rick Perry’s ringtone is “Jump” by Van Halen.

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Rick Perry makes an unusual entrance into his latest ad in Iowa—literally pouncing on his wife, Anita, right at the end. Obviously, the campaign was going for endearing. But given he also appears to be dressed up like “Sprockets,” it’s a little weird.

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Still Life: Rick Perry’s campaign office in Columbia, SC (Taken with instagram)

Herman Cain: If Bachmann were an ice cream, she’d be ‘tutti-frutti’

Herman Cain has a pizza party with GQ:

Devin Gordon: Let me ask you about your rivals. Recently, in response to a question about you being the new “flavor of the month,” you said you weren’t a flavor of the month, you were Häagen-Dazs black walnut, which “tastes good all the time.” If Mitt Romney was an ice cream flavor, what flavor would he be?

Herman Cain: Oh, just plain vanilla. [laughs] Are you guys really going to print this? I have learned that with my new status in the polls, any- and every thing that I say will show up somewhere. Do you guys really want to do this ice cream analogy?

Devin Gordon: We do. Rick Perry?

Herman Cain: Rick Perry: rocky road.

Devin Gordon: Michele Bachmann?

Herman Cain: Michele Bachmann… I’m not going to say it. I’m not going to say it.

Devin Gordon: Oh, come on!

Herman Cain: Tutti-frutti. I know I’m going to get in trouble!

Chris Heath: Ron Paul…

Herman Cain: I just don’t have a good description for Ron Paul, because he’s just not an ice cream flavor.