[Dubya]

The Associated Press / Harry Cabluck

Texas independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman, left, is shown with singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett before a benefit performance for Friedman's campaign Tuesday in Austin.

[Moose4]

Well, if he's got Jimmy playing for him, he's got the Parrothead vote locked up.

This guy can't actually win the race, can he? Or can he pull enough votes from Perry to hand the race to the Rat?

}:-)4

[Torie]

It is amazing that Texas has as much patience and interest as it does, with this circus act. I thought my state was had more affinity for that.

[Dubya]

AP Interview: Strayhorn defends her outsider claims

[E8Ret]

Texas needs a gov like Kinky, Yee-Haw!
Can you imagine what kind of hissy the libs will fling if he gets elected? Sheeeee-it!

[Criminal Number 18F]

If they think that they're going to beat a PC apology out of a guy who called his band Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, they're probably mistaken.

But people ought to look at Minnesota's experience with Jesse Ventura. Ventura came out of that not only reviled as a pol, but even his fellow SEALs can't stand him now.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[okie01]

“If Rick Perry had said this he would have been strung up by the media,” Coleman said.

Of course, he would have. He's a Republican.

And Friedman's not.

[P-40]

Friedman has not been held to the same standard as other candidates

He's held to the same standards...but he just laughs them off.

[Centurion2000]

Last week, Friedman came under fire for calling Katrina evacuees in Houston “thugs and crackheads.” Critics said he had unfairly stereotyped the evacuees, who are disproportionately black, as criminals.

Friedman offered no apologies then and offers none now,

Now I'm definitely voting for him. Anyone taking this much flak is over the target, and I like un-PC politicians not afraid to speak the forbidden truths.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

The first comment against Friedman seems a bit racist, but the second one doesn't.

Also, why is it that so many Americans of African descent think people of color is only for those of African extraction? There are no white people, and everybody except for a few albinos are brown, with yellow and red undertones. Varying amounts give varying shades.

[weegee]

Maybe he should've used the phrase "colored person" (as in NAACP).

The language police keep changing the word every generation and African-American does not "apply" to white South Afrikaners.

[weegee]

"Critics said he had unfairly stereotyped the evacuees, who are disproportionately black, as criminals."

Weren't criminals released? Weren't persons out on bail evacuated too?

It is not necessarily a designation based on class.

[mgstarr]

If I still lived in Texas I might vote for him. Get irritated with the Perry cheerleader squad on FR. (I worked for Bill Clements so don't even start)

Annoyed with the vacuous cheerleader squad for anyone really. Keep thinking back to Life of Brian - "Yes, we must all think for ourselves", said in unison of course. Sadly quite a few miss the irony of that.

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"Friedman says, for example, that he would divide the Texas border into five districts, assign each one to a Mexican general and give them all multimillion-dollar bank accounts. Every time an illegal immigrant is apprehended, Friedman would deduct $5,000 from the general who let the immigrant through. "

Now how stupid is this? What a fruitcake.

[Tall_Texan]

"Every otherconservative politician I have seen that has said things like that have been blasted.”

Fixed it.

[lorenzo832]

what an idiot ,mr. kinky do you really think you have a chance in hell to win this election now? just to let let you know i'm a african american, no i mean a black man of heritage,and just to let you know i had planned on voting for you ,but after your ignorant comments i truly believe its time for another woman to be in Austin,so just crawl back in that hole you came out of. sincerly yours ,neonleon

[denydenydeny]

Bye-bye to Kinky and all the Jesse Ventura talk.

[no dems]

Unlike "politicians", Kinky won't back down and whimper like a whipped dog and apologize.

How refreshing; someone running for office who says what he means and means what he says.

[leadpenny]

For crying out loud, Kinky is a humorist and satirist. Texans know how to lighten up.