One day, people of the future will recognize Rick Perry's run for the presidency as the sublime work of performance art that it is. First, you've got the ironic co-opting of Brokeback Mountain imagery in an over-the-top ad parodying conservative homophobia. Second, you've got the John Cage-like attempts to stitch important appearances entirely out of awkward pauses:

And third, you've got the parodic homages of George W. Bush's ignorance, including mistakenly announcing that there are eight judges on the Supreme Court when there are actually nine. What a genius this man is!

(Via Wonkette.)