What IS provable is that intelligence is a genetic trait. Some people have it, some people don’t, and those who aren’t born with a certain level of intelligence simply can’t say and do the same things as those who are.
Perry and his verbal brainfarts are just more evidence that Conservatism is a mental disorder:
[From Reason Magazine: Whether it be an unfortunate evolutionary holdover or a mental
disease transmitted by our parents—the science is apparently stillup in the air—academic researchers have surely amassed enoughe vidence of psychopathology that conservatism can listed in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders. ]
Noticed several comments here - regarding an apparent history of homosexual behavior on the part of Rick Perry - had not been aware of that … yes, had heard about various episodes of adulterous encounters that he had carried on - but really did not know about the stories of this gay side of his past. Has this been going on for a long time? Does he have a regular “partner” ? or does he just prefer random encounters with comparative strangers?
and as they say - doesn’t make him a bad person - but it would seem that he would be more at peace with himself if he could just be forthright about things …
This is more evidence that the Texas Republican Party has crossed the Rubicon into outright Fascism.
It’s now abundantly clear – especially after the party passed a resolution at its state convention supporting so-called "reparative therapy’ to turn gay people straight (which is really brainwashing them against their will) and calling for a federal constitutional amendment to outlaw same-sex marriage nationwide (which has absolutely ZERO chance of mustering the two-thirds majorities in both houses of Congress required for passage) – that gay people are to Texas Republicans what the Jews were to the Nazis and what blacks were – and still are – to the Ku Klux Klan.
The Texas Republican Party has become a Fascist party of homophobic extemists, and it’s high time that it be treated as the extremist fringe party that it is now.
He came in fourth in the Texas Republican Presidential straw poll. It may take a while, but even the slowest folks have finally figured out he’s a disaster.
Despite his genetic coding, Rick has the ability to decide not to be a complete ass. Unfortunately he doesn’t utilize that ability. Must be some sort of character flaw.
If George W Bush had been gay rather than a drunk, I think things would have worked out a WHOLE LOT better for us.
If George W Bush had stayed a hard-core drunk instead of deciding to get sober, I think things would have worked out a whole lot better for us as well.