Tom Perdue and the Goofy Sayings Department

Eh.

Tom Perdue, a veteran GOP operative in the state, predicted Georgians would support Gingrich “mostly because it’s a poor cow who doesn’t kick her own calf. It’s an old farm saying. Even if the calf has a deformity, the mama cow keeps care of her calf.”

And as experienced farmers know, a cow cares for its calf by kicking it.

Okay, I don't get it.  How does this get past the editor?  Even assuming that Perdue misspoke and uttered the word "kick" instead of the word "lick," how does it not occur to anybody that kicking a calf is an incredibly counterintuitive way to care for a calf?

Chances are Perdue uttered the phrase correctly.

Journalists are great.