Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert says that Hillary Clinton is "mentally impaired." Seriously?

Courtesy of CNN: 

Rep. Louie Gohmert dove fully into health conspiracies about Hillary Clinton on Friday, declaring the Democratic presidential nominee "mentally impaired" multiple times. 

The Texas Republican was speaking at the Value Voters Summit, an annual gathering of social conservatives in Washington. He was telling a story about not taking the easy route in Congress, when he quipped: "When you look at the kind of people running for president, no-brainers are a good thing now." 

But while that comment seemed to include Republican Donald Trump, he attacked Clinton's health exclusively.

"A true believer does what Jesus did ... you don't make fun of people who are impaired, have special needs, and whether you like her or not, Hillary Clinton's made clear, she is mentally impaired," Gohmert joked, to some laughter from the crowd.

Wow! It takes some kind of balls to insult the intelligence of a presidential candidate when you are still referring to the manual to tie your big boy shoes.

Here are just a few of the things that Gohmert has said in the past:

About the imminent repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell."

I’ve had people say, ‘Hey, you know, there’s nothing wrong with gays in the military. Look at the Greeks. Well, you know, they did have people come along who they loved that was the same sex and would give them massages before they went into battle. But you know what, it’s a different kind of fighting, it’s a different kind of war and if you’re sitting around getting massages all day ready to go into a big, planned battle, then you’re not going to last very long. It’s guerrilla fighting. You are going to be ultimately vulnerable to terrorism and if that’s what you start doing in the military like the Greeks did … as people have said, ‘Louie, you have got to understand, you don’t even know your history.’ Oh yes I do. I know exactly. It’s not a good idea.

Yep that's the problem with gays in the military, all of those massages.

On  the possibility of no longer using the Alaska pipeline to pump oil.

So when [caribou] want to go on a date, they invite each other to head over to the pipeline. … So my real concern now [is] if oil stops running through the pipeline … do we need a study to see how adversely the caribou would be affected if that warm oil ever quit flowing?

Interfering with caribou procreation, that's why  we can never stop pumping Alaska crude through the pipeline.

Blaming the Aurora theater shooting on not enough Jesus.

You know what really gets me, as a Christian, is to see the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs, and then some senseless crazy act of terror like this takes place. … We’ve threatened high school graduation participations, if they use God’s name, they’re going to be jailed … I mean that kind of stuff. Where was God? What have we done with God? We don’t want him around. I kind of like his protective hand being present.

You know I don't remember him making the same argument after that Charleston church shooting.

So yeah, THIS is the guy suggesting that Hillary Clinton is "mentally impaired."

Well to be fair, he WOULD be an expert.

Obama administration pushing to ban Social Security recipients deemed mentally incapable of handling their funds from owning a gun. Well there goes half of the NRA membership.

Courtesy of the LA Times:  

Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others. 

The push is intended to bring the Social Security Administration in line with laws regulating who gets reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, which is used to prevent gun sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the country illegally and others. 

A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs due to "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease."

Seems fair to me. If you are too mentally impaired to pay your bills on time, or make change for a dollar, you probably should not be trusted with a weapon.

In my opinion there are a whole lot of Americans running around armed to the teeth who really should not even be trusted with a sharpened stick. 

For instance.

This of course did not sit well with the NRA: 

Told of the plan, head NRA lobbyist Chris Cox issued a statement opposing the "executive fiat" and saying "the NRA stands ready to pursue all available avenues to stop them in their tracks."

BREAKING: Obama @SocialSecurity Admin plans to deny 4.2 MILLION people of their #2A rights! http://t.co/AP4hmi8zLx pic.twitter.com/Hi7S3ZKIcp

— NRA (@NRA) July 18, 2015

Is it wrong that I really enjoy watching these asshats freak out?