A throng of demonstrators greeted Texas Gov. Rick Perry when he arrived at Popovers on the Square on Thursday morning, telling him loud and clear they don't support his policies to revamp Social Security and Medicare.

"Hands off Medicare! Hands off Medicare!" was one chant the demonstrators from the New Hampshire Alliance of Retired Americans made in unison. Others held signs that read "No Texas trash talk," and "Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme."

When Perry was asked by one reporter how he felt about protestors, he replied, "If they're all senior citizens then they have nothing to worry about." Surrounded by a crush of TV cameras, reporters and photographers, Perry greeted voters outside and inside Popovers as well as Popovers employees like Whitney Bresson, who handed the Texas governor a popover and some ice water.

"That's awesome on top of the pancake I just had," said Perry as a voter shouted in the background, "Let them eat cake, governor!" Bresson and several of her co-workers enjoyed meeting the Republican Presidential candidate.

"He was very nice and had a firm handshake," she said.

But Perry also found plenty of supporters for his Presidential bid, which he just announced last weekend in South Carolina, immediately having an impact on the Republican Presidential primary race.

One of those supporters was Mike Esthers of Portsmouth, who had his family take a photo with Perry. "There are plenty of people here who support Rick Perry and like his policies," Esthers said to one of the demonstrators before Perry arrived at Popovers.