In one terribly weird event in a wildly weirdy term of office, Rick Perry tried to require by executive order that every 12 year old girl in Texas be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus.

The weird doubled down when it was discovered that Perry had close ties with the sole manufacturer of the vaccine.

Then along came weird with a cherry on top when the rightwing said that vaccinating girls against a sexually transmitted disease would turn them all into nymphomaniac porn stars who have Biblical knowledge of  entire front line of the Dallas Cowboys. You now, overnight.  Like magic.

Even though the State Lege overrode his decision, Rick Perry always stuck by his coyote-killing guns, claiming that the Lege lacked “gumption.”  You know gumption, right?  That’s the ability to act right even when you’re wrong.

Up until last week, Perry was defending his decision.  But then the moon phases changed, or something, and he got a whole new story in that clean New Hampshire air.

“I signed an executive order that allowed for an opt-out, but the fact of the matter is that I didn’t do my research well enough to understand that we needed to have a substantial conversation with our citizenry,” Perry said at the Manchester, N.H., event in response to an audience question about the HPV controversy, according to ABC News’ The Note. “But here’s what I learned: When you get too far out in front of the parade, they will let you know, and that’s exactly what our Legislature did, and I saluted it and I said, ‘Roger that, I hear you loud and clear.’ And they didn’t want to do it and we don’t, so enough said.”

So, today we learn that sticking your butt in someone’s face and calling them names is defined as “saluting.”

The further away from Texas Rick Perry gets, the bigger his lies get.