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.