There is a story about Lyndon Johnson that nobody can verify exactly but it sounds so much like Lyndon that it’s probably true.

In one of his early congressional races, Lyndon suggested that he run a newspaper ad claiming that his opponent has sex with horses.

“Lyndon,” one of his aides said, “you can’t do that.  You know it’s not true.”

“Of course it’s not true,” Lyndon thundered.  “I just want to hear the sonuvabitch deny it.”

i before e except after Reince

The chairman of the Republican Party is an elfish guy named Reince Priebus.  I can only hope I am spelling that correctly because far too many i before e rules are broken in the making of that name.

Anyway, Rience’s problem is that he does, in fact, have sex with horses.  Well, so to speak.  And he’s had to deny it.  And that’s been fun to watch.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus defended the GOP on Sunday against the notion that its policies only favor the rich, arguing that Republicans are out to create jobs and cut taxes for people of all income levels.

“Of course the party doesn’t favor the rich, but what the party does favor is reducing taxes on every single American out there,” Priebus said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Okay, so how come every economic plan suggested by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would increase taxes on the poor while lowering them on the rich?

You can see how rumors like this get started, Reince.  All your economic and social policies keep hurting the working people of America and pretty soon you get the reputation of hurting the working people of America.

And every time you keep having to deny it, more and more people begin to believe it’s true.  Just ask Herman Cain.