[Scott from the Left Coast]

Obama has done for the economy what pantyhose did for foreplay.

There's a line that needs to go viral.

[dragnet2]

Kinky Friedman famous Jewish cowboy

lol...

[Tex-Con-Man]

(or “Juusshh,” as we say in Texas)

I can confirm the authenticity of that statement.

[bwc2221]

It’s pretty obvious the GOP can beat Obama in 2012. The question is rather it will do so with a principled conservative or a moderate that appeals to the Kinkys of the world.

[Psalm 144]

Wow.

For those who are not Texans, this may seem an insignificant albeit amusing article. Within Texas, Kinky Friedman is a well known and high profile comedian and perennial candidate for some office or other, similar to Pat Paulsen. He is always fun and cordial, but his political commentary is always only half in jest.

Kinky is a left libertarian with a large following among urban white Democrats in Texas. His campaigns are always hopeless (by design probably), but his humorous commentary has an audience and carries some weight, especially in the cities. The significance is this: If Kinky represents the attitude shift of the somewhat left, somewhat libertarian Oat Willie types in Texas, Obama may be losing the smartest, most productive, and most innovative part of his base in other states too.

This article looks cute and harmless, but it is as ominous for Obama as a Trojan rocking horse outside the gates of Chicago al-Islam. To paraphrase the words of the smarter than you and original too Vice President, “this is a big cuffing deal”.

[smoothsailing]

Kinky gives Rick a trim

[jagusafr]

I
Love
Kinky
Friedman.

He is quintessentially Texas: irreverent, loquacious and grounded in a “got each other’s Texas back” independence. And is a master of the well-turned phrase.

Colonel, USAFR

[McLynnan]

Kinky is great. Half the time I don’t agree with him, but he’s so darned funny I can’t help but enjoy listening to him. He’s outrageous on purpose and doesn’t have a mean bone in his body. He’s on to something here.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Three days later Rick called to give me a gracious little pep talk, effectively talking me down from jumping off the bridge of my nose. Very few others were calling at that time, by the way. Such is the nature of winning and losing and politicians and life. You might call what Rick did an act of random kindness. Yet in my mind it made him more than a politician, more than a musician; it made him a mensch.

If this actually came off as described, if Perry gave Kinky a consolation call, yes as the "Juussh" say that was being a mensch -- and as evangelicals would put it, that was showing a very Christian spirit. "Loving your enemy" -- trying to find some way to make someone who was your enemy into a friend, without sacrificing your own principles -- is not easy. Some enemies are impervious to this process, and the bible doesn't say to keep it up when it becomes obvious any further magnanimous gesture is pointless. But the world might have fewer (human) enemies in it if Christians always did this.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

On FOX today Kinky also said Perry doesn’t believe in evolution, but Obama doesn’t believe in Israel.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

On FOX today Kinky also said Perry doesn’t believe in evolution, but Obama doesn’t believe in Israel.