I just saw the worst political advertisement I've ever seen.
I still don't believe exactly what I saw, so I've been looking for it online but I haven't found it yet.
It was for Carole Keeton Strayhorn, the self-styled “One Tough Grandma” who's trying to win the Governor spot in Texas. First, she's talking about her greatest accomplishment – her four sons1. Then her greatest joy – yep, her grandchildren. Then she goes on about how she's happy to be married to her husband (her third? fourth? Hell, I don't know) and that he was her childhood sweetheart, but her parents wouldn't let her marry as she was “too young”. “Well, now we're not too young,” Strayhorn crows, as she snuggles with her husband.
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What? You want more? Platform, policy, why you should vote for ol' Grandma?
Nope. That was it. That'll teach me to turn the TV on again.
I'll be voting Kinky.
1 – I could have sworn the ad said “my four sons”, but her website says five.
Maybe she’d not proud of the fifth one…?
Well that was my first thought! :)
But, I’m betting I just mis-heard or mis-remembered. :)
It’s my own fault for watching the Rachael Ray show, you know.
Tomorrow, I’m going to watch it with my stopwatch, and see how
manyfew minutes of actual show there are in the so-called hour-long program. My god I swear commercials outweigh the shows these days.He probably didn’t sprog, right?
Hahahahahaha! That’s great. :)
I saw that one too. Apparently if you are a woman running for office, you should be all about how proud you are of having gotten married (a few times) and popping out some kids who later popped out some more kids. Luckily she’s so low in the polls as to not even have a chance in hell of winning.
I’m voting Kinky too. If nothing else, having him in office would make reading the state news more entertaining, and who knows, he might even be able to do some good while in office. He’s better than the other options, that’s for sure.
That’s good. How’s Kinky doing in the polls? And isn’t it a four way? Who’s the other guy?
The last poll I saw had Kinky and Chris Bell (the Dem) running pretty close … though still below Pretty Hair Perry. Bell isn’t too horrible, but my first impression, one that has stuck with me, is he seems like a wuss. Just not a strong, take-charge sort of person. And I swear, if he’d said “when I am governor” one more time during the debate tonight I was going to scream.
Bluntly put, all four options suck, so the only option is to vote Kinky. At least he’ll be interesting and might stir the pot a little.
The debate, if you missed it, was stupid. No, really. It was a pretty stupid debate.
Good to hear that y’all are voting Kinky. Haven’t lived in Texas for, gosh, 18 years now, but I still follow the politics and would be voting for Kinky myself, if I could!
~~~wavy lines~~~
Back in ’87 or so, my husband got Kinky’s autograph on whatever was his latest book outside of Wheatsville Co-op in Austin, so we go way back :)