Lately, I’ve spent a lot of time (wasted it, actually) talking with people out of state about Kinky. I am completely sick of explaining that, when Kinky votes, and when he remembers how he voted, he votes Republican.
There are people in my life whom I love very much who vote Republican. In the name of family and neighborly (well, there aren’t all that many in my neighborhood) harmony, I let it go. We agree to disagree and come together on the things we can. This is how the United Purple States of America works. We do our best to get along. We build bridges where we can. We still go to church even though one guy there wears an elephant lapel pin and I want to deck him every time I see it.
But these people I love are not running for office. Not only are they not running for office, they’re not running for office as independents who say they’re going to shake things up because they’re not politicians and they won’t conduct politics as usual. Not only are the not running for office as shake-things-up independents, they’re not voting for Republicans who are completely committed to politics as usual while proclaiming their independence.
What’s that?
Voting for Republicans while running as outsiders in the Lone Star State, home of the Republican machine that is doing its best to institutionalize its power and thus promote corporate harmony and social fascism for decades to come? That Republican Party? The one that orchestrated redistricting? The one that high stepped to Tom DeLay’s marching orders all the way to Texas losing its most senior Dems in the House so we’ll have nobody, I repeat, NOBODY in the top level of the House Leadership if our nutty country really does decide to throw the bums out? That Republican Party?
Yes, you read it here ninety-eighth: Kinky voted for our own darling Kay Bailey Hutch (her name’s been shortened on the ballot here in Travis County) and Lamar Smith.
In other words, Kinky seems to think that the problems are just here at home. We can trust the Republicans to do our business up in Washington.
Who in their right mind is still voting for Kinky in Austin? Tell me–who. I want to hear from you.
This just in: Read this fantastic anti-Kinky blog post by former Kinky-supporter Randy Kirchof (courtesy of BOR, naturally). My favorite part:
A man who votes for Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Lamar Smith is not a man who in any way represents my concerns. The “Satan” comment was one thing, and represents Kinky badly shooting himself in the foot. The Internet sustained your campaign, and it was a stupid and offensive thing to say to your core supporters. In making his actual votes public, he shot himself in the head. That simple statement, once it makes the rounds, will cost you virtually all of your core support. It is public political suicide, nothing more and nothing less.
Randy Kirchof, you da man!
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