Kinky, a good ol' cigar-chomping, Jewish cowboy, might soon be running Tex

Kinky, a good ol' cigar-chomping, Jewish cowboy, might soon be running Texas

It may have started as a joke but now the state, appalled by its political leaders, is taking Friedman seriously
By Andrew Gumbel in Wimberley, Texas
Published: 23 October 2005



Some people run for high political office because it appeals to their vanity. Some run because they believe they can really win. When Kinky Friedman, hitherto known as an eccentric Jewish cowboy singer turned mystery novelist, is asked why he is campaigning as an independent in next year's Texas governor's race, he likes to respond with a question: "How hard can it be?"

If that sounds like a wisecrack, Friedman has plenty more where it came from. His campaign is littered with Jewish jokes, politician jokes, gay marriage jokes ("they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us"), even jokes about the current governor, Rick Perry, and his famously perfect hairdo. "I've got a head of hair better than Rick Perry," Friedman boasts, to loud guffaws from his audiences, "it's just not in a place I can show you."

For the first few months of his campaign, conventional wisdom had it that Friedman's candidacy was itself a joke, a way of sticking it to Texas's luridly headline-worthy establishment without committing himself to much more than a stream of one-liners to entertain the crowds. Certainly, he can be counted on to show up to events in his trademark jeans, cowboy hat and leather waistcoat, puffing on a fat Cuban cigar as he goes through his well-rehearsed paces.

His team has produced a hilarious campaign cartoon making fun of Texas politicians as they speak broken Spanish on the campaign trail and invoke Jesus at every turn. One valuable fundraising asset is a Kinky talking doll. One of the 25 lines it spouts: "Friedman is just another word for nothing left to lose."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article321606.ece

No REAL Democrat is taking him seriously. We should have learned our lesson: celebrity Governors suck. Ventura sucked, Schwarzengroper sucks. Kinky would suck.

Campaign adviser, Dick DeGuerin. That's right, the same snake who is defending Bugsy DeLay is pulling Kinky's strings. Read about it on his website...
http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=27
Kinky is no progressive, he is no Dem, he has nothing to offer but a bunch of folksy one-liners. The most charitable assessment one can make is that he's a buffoon.

Not if several of us here can help it.

Anyone dumb enough to vote for that idiot deserves what they get.