Where's Kinky?:...As The Psycho Tea Party Rousts America's Weirdos, We Wonder About Friedman...

"I support Gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us..." - Kinky Friedman

By JUNIOR BONNER
Staff Writer

HARLINGEN, Texas - America's new politician is apparently coming from the Far (F)right. Yeah, that's the witch Christine O'Donnell seeking Vice-President Joe Biden's old Senate seat in Delaware, and that's the racist Carl Paladino seeking the governorship in New York, and that's well-hipped Sharron Angle and her psycho abortion babble going after Democrat Harry Reid's Senate seat in Nevada. Toupeed dentist Rand Paul's shaking up the GOP in Kentucky, while a few less-notable Teabaggers are doing their best to bring the Meth den into national politics. That, America, is your rebellious Tea Party.

It used to be a case of voters having cause for yelling, "We're Mad as Hell!" Now, you can add "We're Stupid as Hell!" to that list of anger bombs.

So, we wondered, where's Texas perennial candidate Kinky Friedman?

This would be a fine time for oddball Kinky to hit the political stage. His unique and independent brand of biting satire on all things political would play nicely alongside the ridiculous Republican noise. We can only hope that the last six weeks left in the campaigns will settle into something America can digest in an intelligent manner. So far, it's been anything but that. The Republican crazies have taken the stage hostage, creating a strange mix of nonsense and fear as a rallying cry for those feeling a bit disenfranchised.

Friedman's many runs for statewide office ended in defeat, yet much of the blame for that went to his unwillingness to play the game with a straight face. Kinky made fun of career politicians such as Governor Rick Perry, and his penchant for black cowboy garb never did rid him of the rural rube characterization many Republicans heaped on the country musician's back. Still, the inanities he uttered during his campaigns would be rather lame today when compared to the utterings of the debt deadbeat O'Donnell, the under-sexed Angle, the goofy Paul and the rest of their Teabagger brethren.

It's not yet time to declare these noisemakers victors. Election Day is November 2. We'll see whether the country is ready for a Big Top circus in Congress. A victory by O'Donnell would get us the First Witch to serve that hallowed body. Sharron Angle would be the First Ditz and Paul the First Imbecile. Where is predictable Strom Thurmond when you need him? Where is eyeballing Wilbur Mills? Where is racist Trent Lott? These guys? Are you kidding me? It's been awhile since brains were a pre-requisite for a national political campaign. That is Sarah Palin's legacy. She opened the barn door and the diseased pigs are now face-first at the trough.

As for Kinky, well, he may just have been ahead of his time. We can only imagine that Great Debate between the heady Kinkster and the idiot Sarah Palin...

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