| When former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee was running in the Republican presidential primary last election cycle he would often tote around his favorite actor and self-proclaimed superhero, Chuck Norris, to introduce him and warm up the crowds.
Once a surrogate for a Republican running for President of the United States, Norris now wishes to be President of Texas just as soon as the Lone Star State secedes from the Union:
On Glenn Beck's radio show last week, I quipped in response to our wayward federal government, "I may run for president of Texas."
That need may be a reality sooner than we think. If not me, someone someday may again be running for president of the Lone Star state, if the state of the union continues to turn into the enemy of the state.
Norris went on to say:
I'm not saying that other states won't muster the gumption to stand and secede, but Texas has the history to prove it.
Norris also noted that Fox talking head, and radio commentator Glenn Beck, coupled with supporters like Norris, will gather in "cell groups" across the country in a show of solidarity against Congress.
That's not all, either. The Norris/Beck secession chatter came off the heels of one of the Right's favorite GQ boys, Sean Hannity, posting on his website a poll asking "What kind of revolution appeals most to you?" Your choices? "Military Coup," "Armed Rebellion," and "War of Secession!"
So this is what the GOP has come to? The Republican Party and their ideologues with microphones and television shows are so inept as to muster a platform of policies to counter the popular vision of the President of the United States and so instead begin to organize in "cell groups" and actually poll interest in, and publicly talk of, secession from the Union? This is what the 'Party of Lincoln' has come to? Overtaken by extremists and fanatics who advocate and poll secession, as well as organize in "cell groups" to challange our government?
Had this happened during the previous administration you or I would be locked in Guantanamo Bay and water boarded at the pleasure of former Vice President Dick Cheney faster than bluebonnets blooming in the spring.
The GOP has simply gone mad. The elected leadership of the Republican Party best get control of their surrogates and talking heads before they go on to incite violence against the federal government of the United States. |
