GOP candidate accused of pandering after he transforms into cowboy for Texas congressional run

Houston Chronicle ^

[nickcarraway]

New Jersey boy. Pro wrestler. Republican candidate in Nevada. Dan Rodimer has led many lives, but his latest - a cowboy-hat-wearing, Southern-drawling bull rider - might be the most extreme transformation to date.

In his first ad as a candidate for Texas's 6th Congressional District, "Big Dan" Rodimer speaks in a gravelly, indistinct Southern accent, throws jabs at Democratic policies and compares House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to a bull. The bull he's supposedly riding in the ad.

But the New Jersey native did not have the twang last year when he ran for Congress in Nevada. In one of those ads, resurfaced by the American Independent, Rodimer's voice was softer and more clear as he defended himself against assault allegations raised by his opponent. Rather than a rodeo arena, he was surrounded at home by his children and wife - who, at one point in the campaign, was asked to explain the 911 calls she had made against him.

[Howie66]

And the Houston Comical continues to show their Marxist proclivities.

[kiryandil]

Getting a job as The Loyal Opposition is a sweet gig.

You do what ya gotta do...

[moovova]

Anybody criticizing this guy for identifying as a cowboy is RACIST!

[TangoLimaSierra]

[pepsi_junkie]

Chicago raise, Connecticut educated, Arkansas and DC living Hillary Clinton who went on to become the Senator of New York is outraged at a carpetbagger pretending to be like people she has no common cultural bond with.

[alternatives?]

How many Democrats pretend to be Christians?

[The people have spoken]

He ran unsuccessfully in NV last November. His opponent played the 911 domestic violence calls concerning him in her TV ads, and he was doomed.

[irishjuggler]

And don’t forget her Arkie patois 30 years ago

[frank ballenger]

I heard the area of Arkansas where she emerged was similar to Al Capp’s model for Dogpatch in his Lil’ Abner comic strip.

Then for self serving political purposes the woman who stood near Bill Clinton as First Lady declared herself qualified to not only run for US Senate but to be a New Yorker. So did Robert Kennedy and more on both sides of our sorry political party scene.

[nickcarraway]

Most of them.

[BobL]

Probably one of them Hunchback Mountain types...

[frank ballenger]

Now that he is a cowboy....

Mammas don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up[ To Be Cowboys

Cowboys ain’t easy to love and they’re harder to hold
They’d rather give you a song then diamonds or gold
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi’s and each night begins a new day
If you don’t understand him and he don’t die young
He’ll probably just ride away

Mamas’ don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don’t let ‘em pick guitars or drive them old trucks
Let ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mamas’ don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
‘Cause they’ll never stay home and they’re always alone
Even with someone they love

Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms and clear mountain mornin’s
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
Them that don’t know him won’t like him
And them that do sometimes won’t know how to take him
He ain’t wrong he’s just different
But his pride won’t let him do things to make you think he’s right

song by Ed and Patsy Bruce.

[Chode]

i was once told there are two kinds of people what wear a cowboy hat

cowboys, and azzholes

[dfwgator]

I think we know which category this guy falls under.

[GnuThere]

Has the cowboy told Texans, he “ain’t in no ways tired”?

[Chode]

100%

[A Voice]

Great..... I just threw up in my mouth.

Sheesh..... how about a heads up next time.

[Pining_4_TX]

Oh, I didn’t need to see that. I’m going to eat soon. Yuck.

[BillyBoy]

>> New Jersey boy. "Big Dan" Rodimer speaks in a gravelly, indistinct Southern accent. But the New Jersey native did not have the twang last year. In the Texas ad, Rodimer leans into his cowboy character. "They hate Texas," he said. "They hate our way of life." <<

How DARE people claim this guy is a pandering carpetbagger! They clearly aren't aware that he is a Transregional American and he has simply come out of the closet to publicly express how he felt INTERNALLY his whole life. He is a REAL Texas Cowboy because he identifies as such! He can't help the fact he was born in the WRONG state! Just like Kid Rock and Ted Nugent may have been from the Detriot region their whole lives, but that doesn't change the fact that they mentally FEEL like born and bred sons of Dixie, and identify in public as such. Calling them "Michiganers" when they parade around as neo-confederate country boys is insensitive and bigoted.

"Big Dan" Rodimer, Kid Rock, and Ted Nugent are just as much true red-blooded southerners as Dr. Rachel Levine, Caitlyn Jenner, and Lana Wacowski are 100% REAL women!

Transwomen ARE women and Transregional Americans ARE Texas Cowboys!