| For the last few days, I've heard repeated claims that Kinky is all over "the issues" with everyone linking to his rather light on the 'issues' page.
His campaign can't decide- is he a comedian or a candidate? Should we make an endless string of wisecracks or actually talk about policy?
Well, that's pretty simple as was made clear in Friedman's so called "worst interview" from the other week.
But while many opponents say Friedman is thick on jokes, they also say he is thin on the issues.
"I'm not serious about some issues," Friedman said. "I don't think people really, you know, I don't think they want to hear a bunch of rehearsed crap."
Considering I've heard his campaign jokes about a dozen times each now, you wonder who's got a whole stock of rehearsed lines.
In the interview, getting beyond the quips to learn details of what Friedman would do as governor on critical matters could be a challenge.
"I favor remember the Alamo," Friedman said when asked about his stance on immigration.
Friedman said he had no "specific plans" when it came to the issue in Texas.
"I can give you, 'Oh, I'd do A,B, C and D;' that's nonsense," he said.
Nonsense. Yeah, because when bills are actually passed in the legislature, they don't have to actually write anything down that's specific at all. They just wander around talking about various 'non-specific' plans.
Texas homeowners pay the highest insurance rates in the nation. Yet, as the interview went on, Friedman was low on details to cut them.
"I'd get the career politicians," he said when asked what he would do to lower homeowner insurance premiums. "I'd kick their [expletive] out of politics. That's what I'd do."
But while kicking politicians out, Friedman said he would like to put back in the Ten Commandments and mandatory prayer for students in Texas public schools despite court rulings to the contrary.
So after Kinky kicks the career politicians out, which I assume will happen either by ordering them to leave the state for Ardmore or locking himself inside the Senate chambers, then what? He lets them back in? What?
Or, we could wait to have some effective legislating from the man of explatives.
"All the little issues you're talking about are all (expletive)," he said. "It's all (expletives). That's the key. Okay, I mean, you can talk about, 'And I would deregulate this; and my plans is to give a seven percent raise on the textbook.' It's all (expletive) because the people who are doing this are crooks and they're corrupt and they don't give a (expletive) about the people of Texas. That's the truth."
It's pretty clear. Kinky isn't running to talk about issues. He's like the Energizer Bunny- he's running, and running, and running... with no end or purpose in sight.
In the debates, why not just use this for all your live responses? |
