The good people at the University of Minnesota did a study about which Republican Presidential candidates were most unable to speak without using clichés.

Guess who won.

Yep, our boy.  And he really blew the curve on this test, earning the coveted title of “The Cliché King.”  He won’t like that title, even after someone explains it to him, because he thinks that if English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for America.

Here’s the stunning results —

A Smart Politics review of the last three Republican presidential debates finds that Rick Perry has incorporated more clichés into his answers than any other candidate.

In fact, the Texas governor has tallied nearly twice as many clichés as the entire rest of the field combined.

Gig ‘um, Rick!

The first example they show has Rick saying “but the fact is” or “as a matter of fact” three times in a three sentence answer as he was attacking Mitt Romney.  There’s a damn good reason for that the uppity pinheads at the University of Minnesota don’t know about.  Unless Rick Perry prefaces a sentence with, “The fact is,” he’s lying.  It’s the Perry Code.  Keep that in mind when listening to him speak.

Another example they give is his answer to Wolf Blitzer about the HPV mandate ….

“No, sir it wasn’t. It was very clear. It had an opt-out. And at the end of the day, this was about trying to stop a cancer and giving the parental option to opt out of that. And at the end of the day, you may criticize me about the way that I went about it, but at the end of the day, I am always going to err on the side of life. And that’s what this was really all about for me.”

“At the end of the day” means, “Good God people, get me outta here.  I need a nap.”

I just thought you folks from foreign states would want to know these things.

Thanks to MaryK for the heads up and the working title, “At the end of the day, the fact of the matter is, it’s the end of the day.”