Thanks to Carl for the cool graphic.

The Republican Presidential candidates got together and had a contest to see who loves  fetuses the most.

It was a testy event, with humans willing to kill each other over how much they love fetuses.

There was crazy stuff brought by Michelle Bachmann who claims that President Obama wants to “put abortion pills for girls 8 years of age, 11 years of age, on the bubblegum aisle.”  It is suspected that she means the morning after pill being over-the-counter, which, of damn course, President Obama and Kathleen Sebelius strongly rejected.  But in Bachmann’s pretend world ….

And Rick Perry had a Come-to-Fetus moment where he decided that rape and incest are a dandy way for women to have children because of something some woman said to him just recently.  God only knows what she said but you can bet it had less to do with abortion than it did with money and power. He said otherwise ….

I will suggest to you that as I signed that [Personhood] pledge … God was working on my heart.”

Sweetie, God needs to work on your head, not your heart.

And Newt Gingrich is starting to make Ron Paul look sane.  Honestly, I don’t think Newt would be stable even if you mounted him on a tripod.  Every time I head one of Newt’s new ideas about government, I feel like I’m wading in quicksand over hell.

Not only is he going to stomp all over an independent judiciary and install himself as King of America, but now he’s shooting for King of the World …

Gingrich went a step further, however, promising, to “overhaul the U.S. Foreign Service to get rid of the people who are aggressively pro-abortion and aggressively trying to pressure other governments into adopting pro-abortion positions.”

Oh yeah, we need more starving children.  I wonder if Newt can increase his line of credit at Tiffany’s.

Y’all, I lost a bet last night.  I had bet a homemade cheesecake that the Republican candidates had bottomed out two weeks ago.  That was a dumb bet.  There is no OFF button to insane.  I gotta write that down somewhere.

I know Rick Perry. Rick Perry thinks that laws should be legislated, not made by courts. I know that because Rick Perry opposes the Texas Democratic Party going to court to try to stop Republican gerrymandering that left Texas looking like a bushel basket of wire coat hangers.

Rick Perry thinks federal courts should stay out of Texas’ business, dammit.

That was before the Irony Zombies ate his brain this morning. This evening they are rubbing their bellies and belching all three of Rick’s IQ points.

Rick Perry was unable to get 10,000 signatures to get on the ballot in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

So, he’s going to federal court to have Virginia’s statute declared unconstitutional.

Perry’s campaign filed suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District, saying the statutes in Virginia law regulating access to the primary ballot were “among the most onerous in the nation and severely restrict who may obtain petition signatures.”

Now I’ll betcha that if he had gotten enough signatures, he’d think the law was three ways of super dandy.

Duh. Listen up. In Texas, the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, and Judges in counties of more than one million people have to get signatures to get on the ballot. Rick didn’t think that’s unconstitutional.

The boy has a hitch In his gitalong. But the oddest part of all this is that he thinks he’ll make it to Virginia. I hope he has a bus ticket.

Rick Perry has a new ad in Iowa.  It’s dripping Jesus and flags and stuff

Really?  He’s still running ads?

As my friend Kary says, “Isn’t it time he cashes in and releases a line of barbeque  sauces or scented Bibles or something productive to add to his millions?”

And Texas taxpayers are paying every day to keep him safe in Iowa.  I think it’s money well spent if they keep him in Iowa.

Thanks to Kary for the heads-up.

Bubba Jr just texted me this picture from the Charlotte airport —

Anybody want to go?

Y’all, it’s Louie Gohmert again.

Somebody gave him a microphone.  Louie used it.  Not for good, but for evil.

GOHMERT: Mr. Speaker, there are those who don’t want people to mention the word ”Christmas,” and there’s an easy solution. For those who don’t want to mention Christmas, don’t want to observe Christmas, then if they take the holiday, just agree to give back the money, because the money earned on a holiday shouldn’t be taken for those who don’t think it should be a holiday. That’s easy enough.

Oh Louie, that level of nuts almost hurts.

Thanks to Robert for the heads-up.