In a poll taken by this week:

WPA RESEARCH POLL FOR TEXAS: SANTORUM-35%, ROMNEY-27%, GINGRICH-20%, PAUL-8%

Formerly Wilson Research, WPA tested 750 likely GOP primary voters in Texas, Margin of error is 3.6%

Shoot, I thought for sure that they’d go for the Taxachusetts Romneycare Mormon Moderate.

The best part is that when Rick Santorium gets the nomination and they stand around the day after election wondering why God didn’t answer their prayers.  I’m gonna love that. I’m gonna walk around the neighborhood handing out scripture cards.

This is the banner that Bubba put out in front of our house in our very Republican neighborhood on Inauguration Day.  He was just gonna leave it up for one day but when we got drive-by hollerin’, he left it up three days.  Hell, even the television station came out and interviewed us.

He’s already got it dusted off for next January.

My two favorite quotes from last night:

Paul Begala: “Let me be the first to call on Mitt Romney to get out of the race. By placing third in Alabama and Mississippi, losing to Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in both states, Romney has gone from inevitable to unelectable. Somebody strap him to the roof of one of his Cadillacs and drive him off to one of his many mansions.”

And ….

“I’m not sure I’m going to listen to a value judgment of a guy who strapped his own dog on the top of a car and went hurling down the highway.”

— Santorum advisor John Brabender, quoted by National Journal, hitting back at Mitt Romney for saying Santorum was “at the desperate end of his campaign.”

Thanks to Fernando for letting me be a thief.

You know, when the good ole boys are alone together, they lean back in their power chairs, admire the heads of dead animals on their walls and gently toss about racial and gender slurs like a badminton ball.

But sometimes they forget where they are.  And then they have to come up with excuses of why they said what they said if they said it at all because they can’t recall but if you do recall what they said they guess you might be right but they didn’t mean no harm about it even if they did say it.

It sounds complicated, but it’s not.

Robert Cluck

Meet Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck.  Yeah, like a chicken.

Cluck referred to the Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Meeting as “a bunch of Mexicans.”

Cluck told FOX 4 that he doesn’t remember using the phrase in question.

“That’s just not a term I would use,” Cluck said.

However, the mayor also told FOX 4 that if enough witnesses said that he did, then he would have to believe that he did indeed use the phrase “a bunch of Mexicans” to refer to a meeting for Latino officials.

“I am totally colorblind, always have been,” Cluck told NBC 5 Local News. “If I said something to offend people, I am sorry.”

See, that was easy.

Thanks to Iris for the heads up.

Republicans are not going to be happy until you’re barefoot, pregnant, cookin’ dinner, and suckling a kid on each teat.

And that’s the downright truth.

Take an imaginary trip to Arizona, where they have extremely real legislation:

A proposed law in Arizona could give employers the right to fire women who use birth control. The bill, which sailed right through the state’s Senate Judiciary Committee, grants employers the right to ask for proof that contraceptives are being taken for non-contraceptive reasons.

Seriously, they’re serious.

But, the best part comes from an Arizona state legislator who contends this is the Soviet Union (no, really) at work.

Arizona House Bill 2625, authored by Majority Whip Debbie Lesko, R-Glendale, would permit employers to ask their employees for proof of medical prescription if they seek contraceptives for non-reproductive purposes, such as hormone control or acne treatment.

“I believe we live in America. We don’t live in the Soviet Union,” Lesko said. “So, government should not be telling the organizations or mom and pop employers to do something against their moral beliefs.”

Debbie, Honey, sneeze!  Your brain is dusty.

If I use birth control I can be fired from my job, and that’s not the Soviet Union?  So, it’s the Soviet Union that we can tell employers that they cannot discriminate on the basis of race?  Or that they could force you to work 18 hours a day because they have a moral code about laziness?

Debbie, you’re an idiot.  A mean idiot.  A busybody idiot.  An idiot with a cheery on top.

Debbie, I’ll make you a deal:  Your hoochy life is none of my business and my hoochy life is none of your business.  That’s America.

Besides, Babe, your hoochy life has got to be creepy.  That’s all I’m sayin’.

Thanks to Elise for the heads-up.

So, what ya thinking?

8:54 – too close to call.