A year ago, you people thought I was joking when I said that Texas Governor Rick Perry was a damfool.  I will forgive you because people who ain’t from around here do not understand the nuances of the word damfool.  Now, after seeing him on the national stage, you do.

Damfool goes way beyond damn and far beyond fool.  Combining both into one word creates a whole new thing.  It’s like that strange chemical reaction when you combine Aqua Velva and testosterone.  Each on their own is okay, but when you combine them you’ve got a mess that wants to stand on the bar and dance in cowboy boots for your pleasure viewing, all 300 pounds of him.

Anyway, Rick Perry came back to Texas none the wiser.  You’d think that after he embarrassed himself for being stoopid he would read a book or take an online course in Introduction to Smart or something.  Well, you’d think wrong because he’s prouder than ever of being a damfool.

And it has not been pretty.

I told you how Fox News said that it was President Obama’s fault that Texas lost $35 million dollars in federal funds to finance health care for poor women in Texas.

Rick Perry followed suit and issued a press release that started like this:

Obama Administration Placing Pro-Abortion Politics Over Women’s Health

Holy crap.  It ain’t politics.  It’s the law.  Look it up.

Ain’t this like saying “Obama To Force Texas to Let People Vote”?

Abortion is legal. You cannot take that right away from a woman any more than you can take away Rick Perry’s right to vote.  And, Darlin’, listen up – I am going to make a much wiser choice about my reproductive health than Rick Perry has ever made in the voting booth.

Why stop there?  “Obama to Let People Freely Assemble,” or maybe “Obama Continues to Push for Fair Trials,” or “Now Obama Says You Don’t Have to House Troops in Your Home During Times of Peace:  What’s He Thinking?  Doesn’t He Love America?” 

Y’all, you want to hear something really scary?  There’s some folks who want Rick Perry to get back back in the Presidential race.  And, no, it’s not comedy writers.  These people are as serous as a heart attack. 

Their #1 reason?

1. Perry has already said that he would run for President again, unlike Daniels, Christie, Rubio, and Jeb Bush who have declined repeated invitations.

Dude, that’s because they’re not damfools.

Thanks to Bubb Ha for the heads up.

UPDATE:  David just let me know that Rick Perry spent $1,000 a vote while he was running for President, proving that you can, indeed, buy stoopid by the pound.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) spent more than $1,000 per vote during his failed presidential campaign.

By comparison, a Fix review of the 2010 midterm election showed the most any candidate spent per vote in the primary was $454. That was Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon (R), who self-funded a total of $50 million for her campaign.

I would never give Rick Perry more money than you can afford to put in a paper sack and set fire to.  That’s what he’s going to do with it.