This picture was taken at a rally in Texas for governor Rick Perry and the former Alaska governor and current hand scribbling “leader” of the Tea Party, Sarah Palin. Seems a little weird to me that the kid is facing one way and the sign another, but…whatever. Maybe he wrote on both sides to improve the sign’s effectiveness. “Home Scholers for Perry” on one side and the old Locke quote, “Resistance to Trannies is obediance to God” on the other.

At first, I tried to convince myself that this sign should actually be read as “Home Scholars for Perry”. But Scholar is spelled with an A and not an E, so that doesn’t work in dispelling the incredible urge to call this kid’s mom a dunderhead. Sure, the kid is holding up the sign, but the lady next to him either wrote it or assured the young lad that it was spelled correctly. Either way, she should be clubbed about the face, neck and shoulders with a large ball peen hammer. You’re not helping your cause — whatever that cause may be.

Maybe the sign is supposed to be read as “Homes Cholers for Perry”. The dictionary defines choler as “an irritable petulant feeling”. Perhaps there is an inordinately large group of far right conservatives who hold an ungodly amount of animosity towards their homes. How Rick Perry got them all to gather in one location and hold up crudely written signs is beyond me.

Wait a minute. Governor Rick was pissed at the amount of power the US federal government was wielding and supported the idea of state sovereignty, right? So, in truth, he held an irritable petulant feeling towards the US — his home. By Jove…it all makes sense now! That kid’s mother isn’t an illiterate numskull after all. Turns out she’s brilliant!

Or not.