Governor Perry, Stifle Yourself

scott i agree. i've been saying for awhile that i am one lib'rul who will be voting "anyone but perry" even if that means kay. it is way too late in the game for dems to scare up a candidate, and i'm still convinced kinky's on perry's payroll to cover his cigars and prozac. kay's not as dangerous as cornyn because in all her years as senator, she basically has had little to no opinion or effect. she does not hold, to my knowledge much in the way of seats on committees and seems virtually unknown to the good ol' boys of the washington republican senate. so in the great words of yoda wisdom, "vote for her i will".

Dear Lord... another 4 years of Perry? I gotta agree with Carolsb and Lahdidah.... wake me up from my coma.

Also, I think he will beat KBH because of the absolute CRAZY distrust of anything Washington here in Texas. I was driving in from Austin yesterday and decided to listen to Michael Berry. . .what a mistake. You should have heard the caller who first refused to call President Obama "President" because he is not her president, and then wanted to know why he was in Asia apologizing for us. Michael Berry then went into a long, protracted saga of how President Obama grew up angry because he wasn't black or white, didn't get to play sports and wasn't raised in a Christian home. That explains the apologizing. WTF???

I sent this email to a fellow conservative religious biking buddy of mine today.

I enjoyed our conversation the other night. You did let me pontificate moreso. There is one point you mentioned regarding your objection at funding the healthcare for others via a nat'l healthcare insurance reform as being essentially unfair dipping into your money.
Well, I got to thinking about that from a slightly different perspective so I ain't gonna present the same old arguments.
IMO, I think you should be jumping for joy to be fortunate enough that you could help pay for healthcare for the less fortunate. In TX we rank first in the number of uninsured. I can think of few better ways to spend tax money as it certainly fits more with Jesus' teaching to take care of the widows, orphans and poor unconditionally, without exception.
Let me illustrate with a more secular, timely example.

How the US Funds the Taliban http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston

"Welcome to the wartime contracting bazaar in Afghanistan. It is a virtual carnival of improbable characters and shady connections, with former CIA officials and ex-military officers joining hands with former Taliban and mujahedeen to collect US government funds in the name of the war effort."

I find it interesting that the far-right, evangelical, bible-thumping neocons that waste good tea bags have no objections to spending on war including the waste above or the plane loads of $100 bills flown to Iraq and dispersed to who-knows-where but have an epileptic, gut-convulsing fit when it comes to universal health care for our citizens especially when not doing something about it costs billions in medical and lost earnings that far exceeds the war expenditures. Go figure.

I hate like bloody hell that we may be forced to vote for the "lesser of two evils". In a state the size of Texas you would think that we could do better.

As arte said, good hair understands the Texas voter and knows what plays best. I really hate voting for KBH but I'm afraid its the only option.

I'm almost at the point of voting in a Republican primary to vote for Kay Bailey. Yes, she is not what I really want in a governor, but the last three, four, or five elections have shown that maybe we can't get that here. I'll settle for sane, but not what I agree with, over the Toni and Guy governor.

Thank you, Kinky Friedman, for imposing this buffoon on us for yet another four years. What an embarrassment this fool is to Texas. But give him credit - he understands the average Texas GOP voter, which is all - let me repeat that, ALL - that matters to Rick Perry these days.

I'm hoping and praying (yes, it has come to that) that the Democratic primary produces a candidate that can appeal to the 61%, we Texas voters who aren't completely nuts.