Of all the insanity in last night’s Republican Presidential (you gotta be kiddin’) Debate, Juanita loved Rick Perry defending his anti-science stance by saying, “Galileo was outvoted for a while,” best of all.

Ah, sweet, precious, refreshing, creamy, absorbent, new and improved, dye-free, organic, crispy, heavy duty, homemade irony.

Juanita owns a complete set of Galileo Trading Cards and action figures.  She flat loves Galileo, mainly because he stood up to Rick Perry’s genetic line.

Galileo Faces Rick Perry

Galileo was placed under house arrest for the entire last part of his life by the church, who had told him that he could neither “hold or defend” the idea that the Earth moves and the Sun stands still at the center, called heliocentrism in case you’re ever on Jeopardy.

The church, it seems, held on to the belief that the sun revolves around the earth because, darn it, that’s what the Bible says.  Galileo was  “vehemently suspect of heresy” and told to recant and deny his theory or else he couldn’t publish his ideas anymore.

Galileo agreed to recant in exchange for being allowed to continue to think and publish.  Popular theory says that as he left the room after saying the earth is the center of the universe and stands still as the sun revolves around it, he muttered, “Eppur Si Muove,” which translated means, “Yet it moves.”  That probably didn’t happen.  He probably just thought of that after he got home and wished that was what he said.

However, Eppur Si Muove is a great line to have in case you ever have to give up when arguing with a Republican because they could jump start a nuclear submarine with their stupid alone.

So, with irony that could choke a water buffalo, Rick Perry forgot which side he was on in the Galileo fight.  His people were part of the Inquisition.   And they are tan, rested, pissed off, and ready to take control again.