funds you're likely to have. He needs to write editorials for all the local newspapers and get appearances on any talk radio shows that will have him. Barton has $brazillions.

LTTEs will help too.

Good luck.

I think that turnaround is fair play. Use some of their memes and catch phrases--on them.

Right-wingers like to drive around with bumper-stickers like "Throw Them All Out." I'd point out that Smokey Joe Barton has been in office for over 25 years and that it's time for him to go.

Also, ask prospective if he really is interested in protecting their interests.

I've also discovered an unpleasant past-time in the last couple of years--baiting right-wingers with Bible quotes. The book of Proverbs has a lot of ugly things to say about liars and about people who oppress the poor. The dude from Galilee also had some pointed things to say about the rich.

I've used Bible quotes on secular right-wingers and read with glee as they pitched fits--especially when I named which book, chapter, and verse.

Can Mr Sanders sit on a horse? I realize that this sounds a bit flaky and off-the-wall, but seriously, if Mr. Sanders can sit on a horse or ride one, it might be a help.

Maybe it's my white-boy upbringing, but I think that paying homage to the cowboy mythos shouldn't hurt a Texas candidate. And there were Afro-American cowboys. Photos might be few of them, artists like Frederick Remington might have "whited-out" the subjects between sketch-pad and finished painting, Jim Crow-era Texas educators might have chosen to ignore them, but they were there. I like to think that it's a common mythos that white, brown, and Afro-American can relate, whether or not grandpa actually did bust horses and branded cattle or contented himself with watching actors portray them on TV.

District Six is mostly rural, isn't it? So what has Smokey Joe Barton done about the farm relief bill that passed the Senate but is currently stuck in the House. Has Smokey Joe done anything to move a relief bill forward, or is he fiddling with politics while farmers' fields and ranchers' pasturelands burn?