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…. Rick Green.  He’s currently in the GOP run-off hoping to beat an incumbent Democrat on the Texas Supreme Court in November.

“Honey, we can only grow this quality of crazzzy person in Texas.  Other states have tried, but David Vitter and Mark Sanford don’t come close in the long haul when placed against good ole Texas fertilizer,” Juanita says proudly.

“You know how up North they take crazy people and put them in the hospital and try to cure them?  Hell, in Texas we run them for Judge,” she explains.

Green once punched a political rival on election day 2006, and his four-year tenure as a legislator in the Texas House was marked by controversies like the time he filmed an TV infomercial for a nutritional supplement in his Capitol office.

But what has Texas liberal groups most worried is Green’s ideology.

“Uh huh, Babe, we don’t care that he hits people.  We don’t even care if he abuses the capitol building.  We’d even let him go hunting on  Appalachian trail.  That’s minor stuff considering that he’s so rightwing nutty that even Alberto Gonzales endorsed his Republican opponent. He’s drooling nuts,” Juanita is certain of that.

What Green does spend much of his time and energy on — in addition to a home-schooled family with four children who travel with him in a campaign bus emblazoned with a big family photo — is WallBuilders, “a national pro-family organization that presents America’s forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on our moral, religious and constitutional heritage.” Green’s campaign Web site said he “speaks to about 100,000 people in live audiences each year and millions more through radio and television.”

“Now, I doubt that he can win in November and he might be fun to run against,” Juanita suspects, “but I don’t believe in taking chances.”

“This will be a race to watch on Tuesday night.  It’ll tell us who is running the GOP in central Texas – Alberto Gonzales or Jerry Falwell.  Okay, so both are creepy.  I get that,” she nods.