You win. You're the dumbest.
Is there a contest among Republican presidential candidates to say the stupidest possible things in response to the assassination of nine black Americans inside a historic church? If we just say right now that Texas ex-governor Rick Perry wins, will the others zip their mouths? Because in the haste to talk about ANY POSSIBLE THING other than domestic terrorism by racists and the ease with which our steady national supply of mass murderers can get their weapons, Rick Perry is pretty sure the "accident" of a racist murdering nine black Americans in their church was caused by
prescription drugs.
“This is the (modus operandi) of this administration, any time there is an accident like this,” Perry said. “The president is clear, he doesn’t like for Americans to have guns and so he uses every opportunity, this being another one, to basically go parrot that message.” [...]
“It seems to me, again without having all the details about this, that these individuals have been medicated and there may be a real issue in this country from the standpoint of these drugs and how they’re used,” Perry said.
This would be Rick Perry, the fellow who destroyed his last presidential bid after a bizarre debate performance that he later blamed on prescription painkillers he had taken beforehand. So I guess he's just going with what he knows. (He also spent much of his response explaining that it was very important that black Americans get an education—how that relates to the Charleston murders is unclear, other than that it would help "bring people together." Watch the tape for that bit of stream-of-consciousness lunacy.)
So yes, we give up—Perry wins. That's the stupidest candidate statement on the Charleston mass murders yet. It wins over Jeb Bush still not being able to figure out if the racist murderer was really a racist even after the racist told his victims he was a racist doing the thing for racist reasons while he was murdering them (for this failure of basic cognitive awareness Jeb Bush thinks he deserves the presidency, suggesting once again that Jeb really is the dumber brother) and even wins over Jesus's personal spokesman Mike Huckabee tsking that if more people brought more guns with them to church these things wouldn't happen.
