It’s one thing to be dumb.  But, it’s a whole ‘nother thing to be joyful about it.

The Washington Post is reporting that Rick Perry went to Liberty University, scampered up next to Jerry Falwell and rubbed both his IQ points together.  Good Lord, he bragged about his bad grades.  And he fit  in like scales on a fish.

Perry casts himself as anti-intellectual, says his life shaped by faith

Perry mused about his personal failings — not realizing his dream of becoming a veterinarian because he flunked organic chemistry, being ordered to do push-ups as a college cadet when his superiors in morning inspections discovered insufficiently shined shoes, straying from his faith and being “lost” as a young Air Force pilot overseas.

“He who knows the number of drops in the ocean, he counts the sands in the desert, he knows you by name . . . He doesn’t require perfect people to execute his perfect plan,” Perry said before an estimated 13,000 students and faculty who were rapt as they filled the basketball arena here for their thrice-weekly convocation.

As a woman of faith, I would just like to say that having faith does not require you to be stoopid.

Calling Perry’s speech at Liberty University “a celebration of ignorance,” conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin kneecapped Perry by saying …

Yes, he was trying to be self-deprecating, but it’s disturbing to see that he thinks being a rotten student and a know-nothing gives one street cred in the GOP. Is it so important to defy the MSM by flaunting affection for anti-intellectualism?

Uh, Jennifer, have you been listening lately?  The GOP field is not likely to hold a spelling bee, but if they do, they will stumble all over each other to be the first proud dunce to sit down.  They would rather test bullet proof vests than admit they’ve read a book.

Thanks to Alfredo for the heads up.