Rick Perry believes that dignity is a scarce commodity so he doesn’t want to use it all up.

Watching him stir up the steeple people by pointing out that Catholics eat little Lutheran children in dark basements at the Vatican and that Rick Santorum is a …. you know, Catholic, is the new Rick Trick.

“Rick Santorum is a good man, he is a good father, he’s a good Catholic,” Perry, an evangelical Christian, said. “But he hasn’t always been a good conservative.”

The casual but twice-repeated remark — the first time that Perry has publicly pointed to his rival’s faith — attracted the attention of journalists because both men are competing to win evangelical voters in the final days before the South Carolina primary.

I don’t think Rick’s thought this through real good.  Latest figures show that 32% of Texans are Catholic.  He’s already in third place here.  I guess that whooshing sound you hear is Rick dropping to 7th place in Texas.

Dumb.  Bean dip dumb.