Poor, poor, Rick Perry. He admits he "stepped in it" when he compared members of the LGBT community to alcoholics the same week his state's Party adopted an odious anti-gay plank endorsing "reparative therapy." What's a good ol' boy to do?
Why, change the subject, of course, and dismiss the whole thing as unimportant anyhow. After all, we have so much more important things to be talking about, like creating good jobs. Never mind that the "job creators" are still free to fire people for being gay, or seeming to be gay (even if only in the boss' imagination). No, no, we don't need to be talkin' about that. Why would y'all even bring it up?
Let's just leave it up to the states. Yeah, the Tenth Amendment, that's the ticket. What could possibly go wrong? Certainly not gay dads being refused recognition of their parental status for their own biological children, despite DNA test evidence. Say what? Oh, that did happen. And in Texas?
But, gee whillikers. Didn't you hear me say "jobs?" Everyone knows that's what Republicanism is all about.
Video of the very smart-guy-bespectacled Guv tapdance explain his way through this whole mess at a breakfast forum sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
Wouldn't it have just been easier just to apologize and move on? Oh, I forgot. That's unthinkable.
Update: Transcript of Gov. Perry's remarks added below the fold.
