People from foreign states often ask me, “Do y’all just grow them crazy in Texas or is it the heat?”

We grow ‘um.

We plant them, water them, and fertilize them with Louie Gohmert and Rick Perry fertilizer until they grow up and become … well, crazy like this guy.  His name is Wes Riddle, and it is highly likely that he will be the next Head Crazy Cowboy Congressman from Texas.

You kinda know things are getting either drunk, stoned, or weird when you look at the Issues page of his website.  (You know the drill, click the little one to see the big one.)

Ole Wes is a conspiracy theorist.  He claims that President Obama is giving away some oil-goldmine islands in Alaska to the Russians.  The commies.  Well, that’s not true but Wes ain’t one to let the facts get in the way of a good story.

He’s endorsed by Ron Paul.  Do you want me to keep going?

Well, I’m gonna do it anyway.

He’s a blogger.

In February, Riddle, who asserts that states have the authority to nullify federal laws they consider to be unconstitutional, posted an item on Horse Sense warning that Americans’ freedoms were being snuffed out in the name of well-meaning reforms like child labor laws, and no one was willing to do anything about it. “I JUST WISH THE GOVERNMENT WOULD LEAVE US ALONE,” he wrote, bursting into all-caps. But he feared Americans had grown too complacent. “[I]s another Robert E. Lee or Jeff Davis left anywhere in this unified, chained and tethered house of ours—locked down from the inside out?,” he wondered. “Is there a governor with backbone anywhere in the country to point out and even put an end to…(shall I name it? Are you willing to recognize it?). Tyranny.”

Yeah, right, child labor laws are what’s wrong with this country.

Ole Crazy Wes

And, of course, he recognizes the superiority of the white man.  He writes, “”Western civilization has produced the height of all civilizations in certain respects, to include literature.”  Yes, and we also invented the best possible literature and thought – bathroom wall limericks.  Yea, us!

And slavery ended well, didn’t it?

“Slavery in America was clearly harmful and wrong to the people who lived under it, but it proved to be the unintended transmission belt that brought Africans into the orbit of Western freedom,” he wrote. “Are the descendants of slaves really worse off? Would Jesse Jackson be better off living in Uganda? Would we? (Don’t answer that).”

Best I can figure, he’s no relation to Crazy Debbie Riddle in the Texas State Lege, but it is entirely possible that he could be because apparently the Riddle family tree doesn’t fork.

Thanks to about a dozen people for the heads-up and the question, “Do y’all grow them crazy in Texas?“ Now you know the answer.