Vote For The Liar. It’s Important.
We have two guys running for the Republican nomination for Senator in Texas. One is a certified liar and the other is rolling around on the floor crazy.
David Dewhurst is a knockoff version of Mitt Romney – he’ll say anything to get elected. And, Dewhurst is said to be the richest man in Texas politics. He’s slick as snot on a doorknob, slimy as a vat of worms, and he lies. He’s dumb enough to think that his videotape and recordings can be scrubbed clean with a simple lifting of a hyperlink. He’s for a guest worker program so it must be Thursday. He’s against it, so it’s Wednesday. In fact, now he wants to machine gun the border so it’s Friday. No, wait, his big money supporters need cheap labor so it’s back to Thursday. And he’s lying so it must be any day that ends in “day.”
On the other hand.
His opponent Ted Cruz is creepy rightwing blubbering flat earth Limbaugh Dittohead fool. I don’t like him and I always will.
I will tell you all you need to know about Ted Cruz: when Rick Santorum was endorsing him, he said, “Ted Cruz is spellbinding.”
I think there’s some truth to that. My jaw drops open and my breathing gets shallow when Ted Cruz speaks. It’s is truly is spellbinding to see that much crazy stuffed into one body. Truly.
You wanna know the sad thing about this run-off? One of these damfools has to win.
Thanks to David for the heads up.
So … instead, vote for Paul Sadler!
1Dewhurst has the rodeo vote, simply because he used to be really good at it and is an actual cowboy. Although I love the basic cowboy attitude, just about any one of them wanting to get rid of a horse WILL lie.
I don’t plan on voting for either one of these guys, anyway, so it’s a moot point.
2A long time ago, in the campaign for an election I have forgotten, a candidate pounced on my sainted mother, shaking her hand like a one shakes with another man and touching her back with open palm. She was mortified. Later she told my sainted father she felt violated. A slimey unwanted contact by a candidate she formerly merely detested, now despised. Today, David “Teflon coated” Dewhurst. Or Ted “I’m not the lead attorney” Cruz. Take your pick in this runoff.
Maybe Reps, rather than hold runoffs, should just give each candidate a hatchet and settle the damn thing on primary night.
3Since there were no Democrats on the primary ballot in my neck of the woods, I voted in the Republican primary for the one easiest to beat. This runoff has my head spinning. Any suggestions? DH refused to have republican stamped on his poll tax.
4If you ever want to do it, just give them your TDL and you won’t get marked a Republican.
I don’t think either one HAS to win. I figure that IF our new Texas Democratic Party leaders could convince Michele Obama or Mellisa Harris-Perry to kick off an East Texas speaking tour on the steps of the Sam Rayburn library, boogie through Commerce, Marshall, Tyler, Nacadoghes, Beaumont, and wind up at the American Bank Center in Corpus.
5We just might stir up some Democrats.
For any Republicans out there who haven’t gone over the edge*, this is like having to decide which ship you’d rather cross the Atlantic in…the Titanic or the Lusitania.
*this presumes, of course, that there are any Republicans left in Texas who haven’t gone over the edge…I wouldn’t bet on that.
6This is a case where the old saw about how its better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it applies. Both of them are horrible. Both of them are bad for Texas (and the nation). One of them is going to be elected but by cow if you vote for either of them then you really are part of the problem because neither of them is the lesser evil.
7Which ever one of these characters wins, do you really want to give them a “mandate”?
8One difference between Mittens and Secret Agent Man is that Mittens once owned a dog, whereas David Dewhurst once rented a dog to pose with for his Christmas card.
9There is some polling that shows that Cruz is ahead of Dewhurst
10This really isn’t funny, but Kellybee, you made me laugh out loud!
11Remember the Louisiana election where Klan-guy David Dukes (R) ran against an affable crooked Gov. (D) whose name I can’t remember? I say affable because the Gov. wasn’t nuts and he didn’t steal everything–he showed some restraint.
Bumper stickers read: Vote for the Lizard; Not the Wizard. It’s important.
12Not that it has much to do with this topic, except tangentially about liars and lying in politics, I am reminded of the quote attributed to Adlai Stevenson. He said “I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” Things just don’t change at all, do they?
13OldMayfly, the “lizard” was Edwin Edwards, who had previously been LA guv but got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and did some time at the federal Crossbar Hilton. His crime was taking bribes from a Texas for-profit prison operator by the name of Graham (no kin to phil, I don’t think) and Houston Mayor Fred Hofheinz.
Louisiana apparently doesn’t mind felons running for office because after he got sprung from the big house Edwards ran against “reformed” KKK Grand Wizard David Duke. The two bumper stickers seen most were “Vote for the lizard, not the wizard” and “Vote for the Crook… It’s Important.”
14@Mayfly. It was Edwin Edwards a know miscreant. There were two slogans. “Better a lizard than a wizard.” and “Vote for the crook, it’s important.”
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