The Clown Car Vomits Forth

Rick Perry holds forth on democracy.

Episode 238,947 in So You Want To Be President A Fox Host was tonight.

No, I didn't watch it.

But I saw the clip of Rick Perry forgetting the third of the three agencies he wanted to eliminate.  OK, I didn't watch the whole clip because I am against torture.  Either of me or Rick Perry.  To be fair to him, he's done a heckuva job rehabilitating our opinion of other Republican Texas Governors innate intelligence.  Seriously, if you're a GOP candidate for governor in Texas is an IQ above room temperature a disqualification?

Also, Herman Cain said that for every woman accusing him of sexual harassment, there are thousands who haven't.  Now he didn't say "millions".  He didn't say "hundreds of thousands".  He didn't say "tens of thousands".  He said "thousands".  So, for every woman who is accusing Herman Cain of sexual harassment, there are 9,999 other women who haven't.

Now, the population of the US is 309,000,000.  That means there are roughly 1,545,000 women in the country.  Let's get rid of the people women who are not old enough for Herman Cain to sexually harass and just make the number 1,000,000 because I'm bad at math.  If there are 9,999 women who haven't been sexually harassed by Herman Cain for every 1 that has, that means Herman Cain has sexually harassed about 100 women.

UPDATE: Holy Horrifying Crap!  Check out this!

Ah, but Walsh's prize from the FRC is not the most embarrassing award to come to light this week. That honor goes to the Pompeii beneath Google Mountain, Rick Santorum. Nine years ago, it seems, Rick sponsored, for the honor of "Congressional Angel in Adoption," Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach who is presently accused of multiple acts of child molestation and rape, and whose long career as a predator may well bring down the whole football program at Santorum's alma mater. Obviously outraged, Santorum reached deep into the well of his anger and pulled up this bucket of mealy-mouthed slop:

"Look, I pray and hope that he [PSU coach Joe Paterno] didn't do anything he shouldn't have done, but it certainly looks horrible for the university, horrible for the football program and obviously people were fired, should be fired."

Of course, as the report above says, since the Penn State scandal broke, Santorum "has been circumspect in his comments about it. (He is not implicated in any way.)"

By contrast, here's what he once said about gay marriage:

"This is an issue just like 9/11. We didn't decide we wanted to fight the war on terrorism because we wanted to. It was brought to us. And if not now, when? When the supreme courts in all the other states have succumbed to the Massachusetts version of the law?"

Twit.

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