Brilliant Self-Parody

This might just be a last minute winner for 2011's most ironic moments. Rick Perry appears be wearing the same jacket in his anti-gay advertisement as Heath Ledger's gay character in the film Brokeback Mountain.

I wish I could quit you, Rick. Well, really I just wish you would quit.

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