Rick Perry’s “Bimbo Eruption*”

This story warmed the cockles of my heart: Palin hits Perry on state-mandated vaccine.

Apparently while he was governor of Texas, Perry decreed that all girls below a certain age were required to get this anti-VD shot. I have no idea how this passed as it seems on the face of it like something with which both the extreme Left and the Right would take issue.

This isn’t just an example of the Daddy State the GOP is proud to be known as, it’s the Daddy Who Takes His Daughters To Chastity Balls-State.

I had been expecting The Stupids to push Perry over the line, into the White House. But now even their leader is calling him on the carpet. If he loses The Stupids, he’s done for. Because nobody but The Stupids want to see another gun-slingin’ Texas bully swagger into the White House.

You may not remember, but W was sold in his first Presidential campaign as being a reconciler, having worked so successfully with the Democratic legislature while governor of Texas. What they didn’t tell us is that a Texas Democrat is like a right-leaning Republican in most other places, and most of the best progressive legislation enacted during his terms was done so over his repeated vetoes.

Now The poor GOP have Rick Perry to contend with. Perry has all of W’s baseless bravado, lack of grasp of the issues and quotable, shoot-from-the-hip malapropisms, but he’s also an imposing enough physical presence that he makes women’s knees weak and men wish they were men. He’s what W might have been if W had been the quarterback in college, instead of a cheerleader.

Then you might get to wondering, what could motivate a rootin’, tootin’ Alpha Male like Rick Perry to suddenly develop an overwhelming, single-minded interest in wiping out a venereal disease prevalent specifically in young females? Usually these crusades have a deeply personal instigating incident; could it be that too many persons-unknown of the Good Ol’ Boys network were coming home to the missus with unwelcome cases of the French Disease?

Or maybe it was just the $28,000 in campaign handouts Perry received from the Merk corporation—the sole maker of the vaccine in question—over the years.

Perry’s been caught looking suspiciously like he was in a pay-to-play relationship with Big Pharma, and by his mandating gub’ment-issued vaccinations (shades of ObamaCare!) to potentially unwilling citizens, he exemplifies the kind of Big-Government candidate the Right usually rallies against, not for.

I won’t say he’s toast, but his battle just got a lot more uphill. When you can’t even pull the wool over Sarah Palin’s eyes…

* This phrase is, of course, well-known to people who have read tell-all tomes of the Clinton administration. It has been deliberately repurposed here. And thanks mucho to whoever did the art at the top of this post. I have repurposed it, too.