Duck! Incoming!
The Republican primary in Texas is a damn war.
And, as if we weren’t having enough fun, in prances a brand spankin’ new filly to the battlefield.
Pete Sessions, who you’ve heard me call Pistol Pete because he eats bullets for breakfast and shoots off his mouth all day, is facing upstart Tea Party Honey Katrina Pierson in the Dallas area primary.
Pierson was little more than a gnat for Sessions and even Michelle Malkin coming to Texas to campaign for her maybe got her an extra hundred grand to face Sessions’ millions.
But whoa cowboy, now Rafael Cruz, Ted’s double down crazy dad, is endorsing her and you know how much we value crazy in Texas. Well, maybe you don’t. Let me explain – we once put Ross Perot in charge of education. That’s a true testament to how much we love crazy.
Pistol Pete and his posse are whistling pass the graveyard on this one.
Former Dallas County Republican Party Chairman Jonathan Neerman, a Sessions supporter, said the Cruz endorsement would not be a big boost for Pierson.
“He’s speaking for himself,” Neerman said. “Ted Cruz has not endorsed in this race.”
Oh, really? Rafael Cruz is just Ted Cruz with a little extra whoopee on top. His endorsement is a diamond in the crazy crown. Hell, if Greg Abbott becomes governor, he’ll probably put Rafael Cruz in charge of education.
Yes, there is a Democrat in the race, Frank Perez, a lawyer and former police officer.
That patronizing elbow grab by Rafael just begs for a photo caption. Any suggestions?
And I just had to look up Pierson’s campaign bio: “She has been honored to share the stage with top conservatives including Senator Jim DeMint, Senator Rand Paul, Senator Ted Cruz, Andrew Breitbart, Michelle Malkin, Ginni Thomas and many others.”
Well … gollee! If that doesn’t qualify her for Congress, nothin’ does!
1I’d rather vote for the wood podium that shared the stage.
2Just spotted something else. Follow the link and check out the cheesy background they set up for the photo opp that didn’t get cropped out. The only respectable thing in the frame is the U.S. flag. As Samuel Johnson observed, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
3To me, Umpty-Dump, all that stage sharing is nothing but social climbing… and guilt by association.
4Take a look at the enlarged photo from above. Who’s that standing there looking all constipated?
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/01/ted-cruzs-dad-rafael-cruz-backs-katrina-pierson-for-senate-over-incumbent-pete-sessions.html/
5Hey JT, how bout the empty chair next to the podium? It has more brains than Clint Eastwood, so I’m sure that it beats all these morons too!
6Wasn’t there an article just last week that the Chamber of Commerce didn’t want the Republicans to run any more fools? Guess they forgot to mention anything about the endorsement fools.
7“In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.”—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, at entry for patriotism, The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, p. 323 (1946, reprinted 1973).
8Dr. Johnson yields to Mr. Bierce!
9What a ghomert! What an empty suit!
10There are enough Republimacho dudes who will vote for her because they don’t look above the neckline.
11Exactly Don A, exactly. It’s the mindset that brought us the Palin disaster.
12What MY caption would be is, “Please turn loose of my arm.”
13And if that didn’t work, I’d say, rather frostily, “If you don’t turn loose of my arm immediately, I am going to scream.”
14“What’s with the touchy-freely? Are you the mayor of San Diego?”
15This filly is doomed, I tell you, doomed!
16Carnival Cruz just sort of endorsed this lady http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-calls-texas-tea-party-candidate-pierson-utterly-fearless
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