Rethug Rebranding, Hispanic Outreach Edition

Texas Governor and future reverse mortgage spokesman Rick "Hair" Perry has decided the best way to the 2016 Rethuglican Presidential nomination is to wear glasses to make himself look smart get some teabagger cred by sending 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the Rio Grande valley.  The intellectually-challenged Governor, who makes Dumbya look like Stephen Hawking, apparently thinks images of National Guard troops confronting Latino women and children at border crossings will go down well with not only the teabaggers but also the public at large.  He's still smarting from being booed during the 2012 Rethug primaries for saying "I don't think you have a heart" to the nativist right who bitterly opposed educating children of illegal immigrants.

We await the photo opportunities of Commander Hair and his deputy commander and winner of the Yellow Heart with chicken feather cluster, Sean "Heil" Hannity, firing rounds over the heads of the women and children at the border.    Hopefully, they won't hit either them or the National Guard troops they're using as props in their political theatre.

UPDATE I:  Businesses in south Texas are opposing Commander Hair's deployment of National Guard troops.  The Rio South Texas Economic Council wants Hair to reconsider the move, saying it would "only create an inaccurate image that our safe and viable border region in the Rio Grande Valley is dangerous, and that the problem is not presently being managed, which is not the case." (emphasis added).  Hat tip to P.E.C. for spotting the story.

UPDATE II:  It looks like sheriffs in counties along the border aren't crazy about Commander Hair's plan either.  Support your local sheriff.

(photo:  Hair 'n' Heil pose for the camera)