Kinky Friedman may run again for Texas governor

AUSTIN, Texas – Humorist and author Kinky Friedman is toying with another run for Texas governor, but if he does enter the race, he says he’s serious this time.

“I’m toning down the one-liners a bit. If I run, it’s going to be a serious run,” Friedman told The Associated Press on Tuesday, peppering the interview with one-liners.

Friedman said he learned some hard lessons from his fourth-place defeat in 2006 to Republican Rick Perry in a race with three political veterans.

He said he found out he couldn’t win as an independent and that he shouldn’t crack so many jokes. He’d rather run now with the help of a major party – the Democrats.

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Kinky Friedman may run again for Texas governor

I know a lot of folks are going to just laugh, Kinky WHO? I know a lot more that are going to actually give Kinky Friedman a serious look this time around. Kinky noted that Al Franken did well in his U.S. Senate run? Well, that might be a hangup for me. If he’s a supporter of that androgynous, no talent moonbat Al Franken, well, that’s taking his Democratic support a little too far.

I don’t have a problem with voting for a Democrat, that’s the luxury of being an Independent. Lets face it, given the current condition of the RNC, to quote Kinky, ‘Why the hell not?’. If a Democrat can better represent the state of Texas than a Republican, great, but there is NO WAY that Texas will support a Libber IDIOT or comedic buffoon! Texas WILL support a Democrat, if it’s one like the Democrats were back in the 60’s, back in the day before the Dems lost their solid support in the South by moving as far to the left, and as far away from Conservatism as possible.

During the 2006 campaign, Friedman said he would increase the number of National Guardsmen on the border from 1,500 to 10,000, fine companies for hiring illegal immigrants and require immigrants seeking jobs to apply for taxpayer identification cards and pass a background check.

Friedman knows the ‘hot button’ issues for Texans and even though it’s not in the news lately, even though most of the nation has apparently lost interest in the illegal immigration issue, folks in the border states haven’t. We are still being over-run by ILLEGALS here in Texas, and now it seems like no one cares.

I am NOT at all hung up on ‘party labels’, but Friedman will have to prove himself this time around. IF the RNC can rebuild, if Rick Perry can garner the nod from the Texas Republicans, if Kay Bailey Hutchison can keep her act together and take some sort of serious stance on border issues, Kinky will have his work seriously cut out for him. If ANY of them come out with a HARD stance for border security, that will be a giant issue for Texans.

Friedman needs to cut the ties with people like Willie Nelson and Jesse Ventura. Take the ‘circus‘ attitude out of the equation. Make this a SERIOUS race, make it about serious issues and address it professionally. You’re not auditioning for a role in some stage comedy, if you keep that in mind then you might have a chance. If you don’t, you become another footnote in Texas history, one that reads ‘also ran’.

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Survey: Texas voters increasingly unhappy with GOP

AUSTIN – Texas voters are increasingly dissatisfied with the state’s Republican leaders and are open to the idea of electing a Democrat as governor in the next election, according to a new survey by an established GOP pollster.

The survey, conducted by David Hill, raises questions about whether the Republican Party might be in trouble after a decade of political dominance in Texas.

“The poll results challenge the conventional wisdom that Texas is a solidly red state,” said Mr. Hill. “This shows that the Republican Party’s image, even among Anglos and conservatives and self-professed Republicans, is often not what we would like it to be.”

Texas voters don’t think the GOP is delivering government that is low-cost, in-touch or devoted to the common good, the poll shows.

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I have been called a traitor to the Republican party because I speak so badly of them on the blog. I tell my readers, I am NOT a Republican, nor am I a Democrat. I don’t vote for the *party line*, I vote for the candidate that I feel best represents me, my views and what I want to see done for my city, county, state and nation. I vote as a true Independent with strong Conservative feelings. Call me old fashioned but I expect more than empty promises and handshakes across the aisle.

The Republican party left people like me behind years ago, along about the time George W. Bush was first elected. That was about the time that I realized, there’s not a dimes worth of difference between the RNC and the DNC, we have Dems and we have Dem Lite. Until one, or BOTH return to an America 1st style of business, until one, or BOTH return to listening to their constituents, I will not declare any allegiance to either!

We, The People, we are the ones the elected officials work for, every so often those officials need a strong wake up call to remind them of that fact! Hopefully, with the election of Barack Obama as well as the loss of the Senate and House, maybe, just maybe, the RNC is getting the message, if not, oh well.

Many of us already feel that it’s way past time for a viable CONSERVATIVE party, I am NOT a political science kind of guy, I am the writer of a blog. I see a lot of things that need to be but I am NOT in any way prepared to instigate them, other than throwing the ideas out there while hoping some *brainiac* political whiz kid will snatch it up and run with it.

America is awash in patriots, even today, but we have to have leadership that sees things the way we do, leaders that see America regain that once held position of global importance. There are many that will work tirelessly to make things happen, we just have to find the right leaders to get the ball rolling!

If the Republicans can’t, or won’t do these things, then pray that the right Conservative comes forward that will.

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