I’ve read pundits in the last couple of days talking about why Rick Perry was going to be re-elected governor of Texas. In general, they talked about how Kinky Friedman and Carole Strayhorn split the center while Bell did pretty well with the left, or what passes for the left, or is alleged to be the left, here in Tejas.
Wrong.
Obviously, none of these pundits was actually familiar with Friedman supporters.
Many of his backers openly called Perry a RINO ― a Republican In Name Only.
When you have people openly pushing Kinky as being to the right of Perry, he’s not trying to split the middle.
Unfortunately, too many people who WANTED a centrist candidate thought exactly that Kinky, though, proving once again that it’s too bad we can’t give voters an IQ test, or better yet, a PQ (Political Quotient) exam.
It’s also too bad we can’t do that for pundits who pen analysis a mile wide and an inch deep.
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