Yes, Kinky Friedman made a big point of that too. "Why the hell not?" Not like he could actually accomplish anything as Governor so why not go with the goofy guy with the cee-gar?
“As far as winning the governorship is concerned,” [Kinky] explains, “I now suspect widespread voter fraud. It had to be. Everyone I meet claims he voted for me.”
(Trying to find some of his quotes on the TX governor position, nothing yet.)
I loved his argument for gay marriage: "Because those bastards should feel just as miserable as the rest of us do." Can Kinky run for president on the Republican ticket, please? He'd be their most serious and reasonable candidate by a long shot.
"Because those bastards should feel just as miserable as the rest of us do."
Oy! I said that decades ago!
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Wed 24 Aug, 2011 07:52 am
@Thomas,
Thomas wrote:
RABEL222 wrote:
What do you expect. He is a Texan politician. Lack of a brain is a necessity.
President Johnson was a Texan. He had a brain. You're peddling anti-Texan stereotypes.
It's a tough job but someone has to do it.
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dlowan
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Wed 24 Aug, 2011 07:53 am
@Thomas,
Thomas wrote:
dlowan wrote:
I mean to cast aspersions upon the judgment of folk who voted for him.
According to one of Molly Ivins's books, I think Shrub, the Texas constitution reduces its governors to mostly-symbolic figureheads. Because office holders are of little practical consequence, it doesn't make much difference to Texas if they're idiots. Except, of course, when they go on applying for higher office with their experience as governor on their resumé.
There's just no full defence against idiots.
Not even an id.
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H2O MAN
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Wed 24 Aug, 2011 07:54 am
You can relax, I don't think Perry will get the nomination.
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dlowan
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Wed 24 Aug, 2011 07:55 am
@blueveinedthrobber,
Quote:
Boy Hawkeye, nothing gets by you.
That's where he got the name.
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blueveinedthrobber
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Wed 24 Aug, 2011 01:19 pm
I thought perhaps he was just a drunken battlefield surgeon at one time
