I'd rather watch a sack race than our current Florida governor's race. This entire contest has been like being sent off to school with a bologna sandwich and an apple every day for months,with no end in sight. It numbs the mind and crushes the spirit.
Thank goodness Kinky Friedman's tossing me a bag of barbecue Fritos by polling so well out in Texas. He said some words today that set my heart a-flutter, and I hope a state as full of characters as Texas is will do me and Florida a favor and vote this zesty gentleman into office:
Kinky Friedman, the proudly politically incorrect entertainer running for governor, said Wednesday he wouldn't put just 1,500 National Guard troops on the Texas-Mexico border, he'd send 10,000."We've waited 153 years for the feds to help us," Friedman said. "They haven't yet. We have our own army. I want 10,000 Texas National Guard troops on the border and I want them now."
I do too, Kinky. I do too.
Posted by floridacracker at September 6, 2006 03:34 PMI'm going to have to give this guy a look - but first I have to finish my ongoing squabble with the state over my valid address within Texas. It seems that all of a sudden, my address on Goodfellow AFB, the last place I lived in Texas, is no longer valid; I just received notice to that effect
I've been overseas, consistently voting absentee throughout, for nearly twelve years aside for some schools attended back in CONUS and throwing this local address detail at me just a short while before the election gives me greater reason to look more closely at a non-traditional candidate like Friedman. His stand on border integrity makes now makes him appear more serious than the others.
Posted by: tfhr at September 6, 2006 05:49 PMI think he is exactly what we need in positions like that, its what we need in Florida right now also..
We do have a sad line up, Donnah..
On the right, we have a 'maybe could govern'..and a
leaner, who also has nevr ben a govner afore...
On the left I have no idea whats cookin over there..I guess I am afraid to look.
Posted by: csason at September 6, 2006 07:49 PMAh, Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys. Glad to hear the original Asshole From El Paso is gaining a wider audience. I think I've got an autographed copy of one of his detective novels kicking around somewhere. Check out the talking Kinky doll you can get on his website:
www.kinkyfriedman.com
I used to think he might be a bit of a lefty, based on his friendship with the drug-addled Willy Nelson, but reviewing his election platform, I gotta say, hmmm ... interesting.
Posted by: rg at September 6, 2006 09:19 PMI forget what channel on which I watched, but there was a documentary made on Kinky's run for Governor. Highly entertaining. I figure if Jesse "The Body" Ventura can win the Governor's seat in Minnesota and Arnold Schwarzenegger can be put in officer as Governor of California, then why the hell not expect Kinky Friedman might have an outside chance of being elected Governor of Texas?
Posted by: Carl at September 7, 2006 12:50 PM