It has long been a Republican practice to accuse your opponent of your own weakness.  Louie Gohmert perfected it today.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Hillary Clinton is “mentally impaired” during a speech at the Values Voter Summit on Friday.

Gohmert said that he didn’t want to make fun of Clinton, then went on to do just that.

“You don’t make fun of people who are impaired, have special needs, and whether you like her or not, Hillary Clinton has made clear that she is mentally impaired and this is not somebody you should be making fun of,” Gohmert said to laughter in the audience.

Louie went on to say that Hillary might have been smart when she went to law school but something has happened since then.  “A concussion,” he innocently asks.

I used to work in a news room with an uptight Republican woman – she wrote the style section, of course – and I learned about Christian gossip.  I would hear her on the phone telling one of her friends, “We need to pray for Betty Ann.  Her husband is running around with that floozy woman again so she needs our love and our prayers.”  Next one, “Bless her sweet heart, Brandi’s liposuction didn’t go well so please remember her in your prayers.”  Then, “Add David to your prayer list because he got another DWI and Lauren is fixing to kill him.  We need to do a lot a praying for them.”

Sometimes she would say, “Please pray for Mary Lou,” and not say why, leaving her friend the necessary task of having to call everyone in her Sunday School class to find out what the hell is going on with Mary Lou and if they don’t know, they start calling other people, all the while claiming that they are just trying to find out what they should be praying for.

I began to call that, “Prayer List Adding,” and questioned her about how that was different from gossip.  She replied, “Oh Susan, prayer is powerful and we all need to pray for people in need.” I asked why not just pray for everybody?  Her answer, “I don’t know everybody.” I could not argue with that.

I’m pretty sure she called all her friends at night asking them to pray for me because I cuss, drink, and once made a county commissioner cry.  If she did, it didn’t work.

So Louie was simply Prayer list Adding, a popular sport with Super DeLux Brand Christians.

Thanks to every and their Aunt Matilda for the heads up. Love you guys.