January 29, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
I’ve told you oh so many stories about the guy with the gun fetish, Glenn Hegar, who is currently my state senator and is running for Texas Comptroller. You know, the state’s accountant. The guy with a bow tie and a pencil making sure the books balance.
Here’s his campaign ad.
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Oh dear Lord in heaven above.
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He should do the state a favor and put that gun to his head…
1One of the candidates for mayor in Galveston is a local anti-tax agitator/property developer whose campaign materials feature him dressed in camo in front of a big-ass American flag. Oy!
2I remember when somebody in Alabama was running for state political office and he used the same approach — and lost. Alabama has a population up in the Northeast corner by Huntsville/Redstone Arsenal that are actually from north of the Mason Dixon line and have educations and IQ’s that are nothing short of spectacular. They also have a long and deep history of voting where they came from and continue that sort of thing where they landed. Not a one was impressed with my gun is bigger than anybody’s gun guy. He lost pretty big. And it did surprise him cuz he saw Aladamnbama completely different than they did. Who knows? Maybe that same sort of thing can float in your direction.
3What in Hades does shooting your gun have to do with being Comptroller? Just going to sit here and shake me head for a moment in confusion…
4OTOH, what does it say if I don’t need a gun 😉
5Apart from the fact that a comptroller has nothing to do with “keeping your second amendment rights”, what expertise does he bring to the position? A fully loaded automatic adding machine, a telescopic sighted pencil and an ATF coffee cup?
6I repeat, Gawd save us from stupid.
Truly a memorable commercial – one so repulsive that it deserves to be on national television. The public blowback will be awesome.
7Shouldn’t a candidate for comptroller be touting his accounting skills…..
8Y’all done said it for me: what’s a gun have to do with being a good accountant?
9Glen Hager’s bio babbles about his membership in a particular Methodist church. I just can’t see how he stays in a Methodist church given it opposes nearly everything he “stands” for.
10That is a really disturbing ad. It’s sickening that he’s showing his gunsness when running for Comptroller.
Fortunately, I will not get to see this ad on my TV as my TV permanently lives in the closet. It was bad once and I so far haven’t forgiven it.
11I got a really clear message: “We will, we will . . . rob you.”
12Truth in advertising, that.
His ad tells me that he’s aiming for low-hanging fruit and knuckle-dragging voters who value guns and bravado far more than they do brains, education, and professionalism.
I have to believe that one of these days, enough voters will wake up and know they are “being played” and will kick the gun jerks to the curb. I hope it is sooner than later.
13I remember a line from the play, Pippen.
“men raise flags when they can’t raise anything else.”
I was young and naive and somebody had to explain what it meant. And it was a long time ago.
Reminds me of republicans and their guns.
14Brian said it all.
I got nothing.
15Ah, for the good old days when tits and ass were used to sell everything. Or maybe not, but you do remember those days…right?
(Sorry, Momma, I don’t usually get crude with comments.)
16First, let me say it’s good to be back in the WMDBS, where common sense and mirth can peacefully co-exist.
I suppose Mr. Hagar’s skill with a firearm should come in handy, if armed terrorists ever invade the Comptroller’s Office… it could happen, you know.
17@brian (No. 1 comment) I’m with you. He would be doing Texas a big favor. I think the doctor held the forceps too tightly when he was being born.
18To say that he is dumber than dirt is an insult to dirt.
19Lynne says: January 29, 2014 at 6:07 pm– Hegar’s got the ass bit covered, I’d rather not know about the tits
(but he looks like he might tote some man ones, barf).
WTF is wrong with this state? I watched most of the Lt. Guv debate and alternated between hysterical laughter and beating my noggin on the desk. What’s frightening is that Patterson seemed ‘almost’ reasonable on a few topics, although overall, they’re all batcarp insane.
20I’ll do what I can for Wendy, LVDP, and other D’s; I hope there’s a D running for comptroller too, don’t like skipping slots.
Oh, please. All yall sitting here telling me yall don’t want your state comptroller armed to the teeth with semiautomatic weapons, I declare it’s all part of your larger strategy to turn Texas into California. You know, that state where comptrollers aren’t required to have a CHL, why, they probably aren’t even required to have a concealed handgun in their office. Is that what you want? Is it? Well why don’t you just go to California then, and get yourself one of those same-sex marriages everybody out there is so big on while you’re at it!
21I do love watching a Repub candidate do his darndest to pander to the base, apparently unaware that he/she already has the radical right votes and should be giving a thought to the Independents.
22Sorry, you can’t have the job if you can’t pronounce the position properly. It’s conTROLLER, not COMPtroller, idiot.
23“Your Second Amendment rights are extremely important” he says to people who will never have to deal with guy. He’s pandering for votes from those whose brain function ceases after seeing the NRA logo.
24Sad that “Second Amendment rights” is now the sole criterion for qualification to elected office.
My half brother lives in Texas and he keeps posting these inane bits (right-winger super Xian…should I say more?) it turns out that on my fathers side we have a fair number of “you are going to burn in hell because God loves you so much…” types that come from our Dutch background. We I was small, and we (my Dad and my brother–my parents were divorced) would go to these big family reunions in the Midwest, there where these guys that wore white dress shirts with flames coming up from the bottom, a crucifixion embroidered on the back–big shoulder cross piece and and agonized Jesus with the flames licking the bottom of his feet–scary stuff–the front panels with John 3:16 written out above the flames, other quotes on the sleeves–actually amazing works of art, if you go for that sort of thing…so you can only imagine my relief when I found out that my Mother’s line is Jewish!!
25Seeing how my half brother ended up–gun carrying nut job–I am grateful my Father fell out of my life almost 40 years ago…my wonderful partner (Jewish man) who adores his daughter, had trouble believing that a Father could choose to not know his daughter and son…when I arranged said meeting, he was truly dumbfounded–racist, ignorant, BSer–so that meeting–my nieces HS graduation, was the last one…
I won’t ask whom my half brother is voting for…Hegar is so nuts it’ll fit the bill..my bro gave mighty thanks when his home “was saved by God” during the big fire in Austin–almost ALL of his “good friends” and neighbors lost everything–I’d have survivor guilt, but it was all about, “his mighty God, and the power of prayer” as if his, also Xians, neighbors weren’t praying their butts off too! I hate the “flag raising”, my guns are bigger, crowd–and am getting intolerant, even with my own family–civil wars are fought for less…and when it’s about beliefs—no Gods can save us…
He can’t even pronounce it properly. Wonder if he can spell it?
26Where are the balance sheets? Where are the savings to be had from wasteful programs? More importantly, who is running against him?
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