Please don't fund anti-Democrat anti-liberal pro-Lieberman Kinky Friedman

Some ill-informed Democrats (lots of them out of state, but unfortunately some of them here at DU) are sending money to Kinky Friedman's campaign because they think it's funny that we have a Jesse Ventura/Arnold Schwarzenegger-type moron fucking up the governor's race here in Texas.

Please help put a stop to that crap because it's not funny to us down here in Texas.

Kinky is a big supporter of this new "Zell Lieberman." On Joe Scarborough's show this week, Kinky praised Lieberman for leaving the Democratic Party, and Kinky suggested liberals were anti-American:

SCARBOROUGH: Hey, Kinky, could the argument be that both parties are extreme, vote for the new independent?

FRIEDMAN: That could certainly be. I think the mood of the country is really, really independent. I mean, I think the winds of change are really blowing right now. And all the—the way I see Lieberman, he's very—he's pro-America, unashamedly, and he's pro-Israel. And these liberals are not.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14285602

This bullshit echoes Kinky's support for Bush:

Question: So does this idea of the honorable cowboy have anything to do with why you threw your support behind President Bush in this last election? You did, didn’t you?
Kinky: Yes. I did in this last election, but I didn’t vote for him the first time.
Question: Who did you vote for in 2000?
Kinky: I voted for Gore then. I was conflicted. . .but I was not for Bush that time. Since then, though, we’ve become friends. And that’s what’s changed things.
Question: So it’s your friendship with him that’s changed your mind about having him as president more than his specific political positions?
Kinky: Well, actually, I agree with most of his political positions overseas, his foreign policy. On domestic issues, I’m more in line with the Democrats. I basically think he played a poor hand well after September 11. What he’s been doing in the Near East and in the Middle East, he’s handling that well, I think.

http://www.ruminator.com/content/040501.html (please also bear in mind that Kinky's claim to have voted for Gore in 2000 is a straight-up lie because Kinky's voting records confirm Kinky didn't vote in any elections for at least a decade before his vote for Bush in 2004. http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4517585 ).

Please help us shut this clown down in Texas: next time you hear some Democrat expressing interest in Kinky, please slap them.

Kinky, like other wildcard candidates, is being supported because of who he's NOT rather than who he is. People are sick to death of politics as usual in Texas, but it's so corrupt and full of bile that no decent person has a chance. I sure wish Doggett would run, but would hate to lose him as a local leader.

I read that Kinky used to visit Bush when he was governor and isn't to be trusted. And the word needs to get out.

But who should we vote for?

first big ethics charge against Tom DeLay which has resulted in DeLay resigning and giving his district to the Democrat.

Chris Bell is GREAT!

Check out Bell's voting record here: http://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Chris_Bell.htm.

Or simply know that Bell was rated 100% by SANE (pro-peace voting record), rated 100% by NARAL (pro-choice voting record), rated 93% by the AFL-CIO (pro-union voting record), rated 8% by the Christian Coalition (these are Chrsitofascist zealots and they hate Bell which means he's doing something right), rated 0% by FAIR (there are anti-fair-immigration crazies who also hate Bell).

The discussions I've been privy to about how Kinky is the only alternative don't even mention Bell. And these are DEMOCRATS I'm talking about.

media loves.

Strayhorn also gets some coverage because she's a straight-up bitch who will say outrageous shit (and the media love's that, too).

All Bell has going for him is sound policy (why would the corporate media cover that?).

Do you expect anything less from the one that spawned the sycophant scotty tissue?

For Governor of Texas.

Imus blower

and he wants to instate prayer time in public school classes and Kinky wants to outlaw the de-clawing of cats.

That's the LEAST Libertarian nonsense I could possibly imagine.

He's not a Libertarian; he's batshit crazy.

Ya fucked up, Kinky. Just admit it, and move on.

behind Kinky Friedman. We went to a fish-fry and fund-raiser at Tom's
home in Kingwood, just yesterday. Odd as it may seem, most of Kinky's supporters (at least the ones I met) are Democrats. I don't know it
it's the comedian thing, or the socially-liberal, tough-on-foriegn-policy combination, but 50-60 people paid $100.00 each to eat fried fish, fried shrimp, hush-puppies, french fries, and cole-slaw.....
I didn't contribute anything although I guess I was expected to. Food was good, and towards the end of the evening when it got down to about 8 couples around the pool, the socially liberal side of these folks
shown thru, and the show got rather.....intereting!

like Mr. "tough-on-foreign-policy" Joe Lieberman.

I had a chance to work with that self promoting ego maniac a few years back. Nothing from nothing but the guy is a moron. Of course he loves lieberman because, like lieberman it's all about kinky, he doesn't give a damn about anyone but himself. As long as he makes sure he's the center of attraction, everyone else can go screw off.

He's just a giant blowhard trying to make the most out of his "keep austin weird" name.

Make no mistake, the guy is just a fool with a cigar.