…and I have a Kinky bobblehead!

Left by kw on September 6th, 2006 at 1:22 pm

But Governor Perry is soooo good looking.

just wanted to rile you up today…lol Don Imus loves Kinky too.

To get down to real business, if my governor (who is worthless herself) wouldn’t take a stand to protect my borders, I’d boot his ass out too. My governor supported giving illegals drivers licenses and in-state tuition, which they got. Unfortunately, she is considered a shoo-in, but she’s not going to get my vote again.

Left by dianne on September 6th, 2006 at 1:40 pm

I never took Kinky seriously. However, if he is serious about the border issue, I would vote for him. I believe the National Guard troops currently assigned to the border aren’t even allowed to be armed.

Left by Anonymous on September 6th, 2006 at 2:11 pm

The way I see it, he can’t be any worse than any of the other candidates and I’m sick of career politicians.

I’m voting for Kinky. And I’m really hoping to see a “none of the above” choice on the 2008 presidential ballot, because I would use that!

Left by Terr on September 6th, 2006 at 3:50 pm

The name alone makes me smile. With his proposed secured-border plan, I’m definitely a contented supporter!

Left by kw on September 6th, 2006 at 4:12 pm

At my blog, we’ve had some discussion whether Kinky is a “liberal.” I think the debate rises from the fact that Kinky often jokes that he’s in favor of gay marriage because gays should be as miserable as the rest of us, but you have to take those joking comments in light of the fact that Kinky didn’t vote against the amendment to the Texas Constitution which banned gay marriage. Anyway, here’s my thoughts:

Let’s be careful about how we use that word “liberal” here in Texas. I think you’d do Kinky less harm among Texas voters if you called Kinky a pedophile than if you called him a liberal. Texas is at least 60% Republican and if Kinky is going to win, he’s going to have to do it with Republican votes (not by snipping off the pot-smoking fringe of the less-than-40%-of-voters Democratic Party because even if Kinky gets 33% of the Democrats — which is unlikely — that’d only get him about 13% of the vote).

Here is why I believe it is quite inaccurate to call Kinky a “liberal.”

Watch this video clip. It is hilarious, it is true, and it is politically incorrect as hell. Liberal politicians are too politically correct to admit the truth that “negro is a charming word.” Whatever Kinky is, he’s NOT a liberal.

Next, read up on Kinky’s get-tough illegal alien plan and his 5 Mexican generals plan. Kinky’s common sense border security plan is the straight up “minuteman” approach, not Perry’s namby-pamby “let’s set up cameras” approach. Make no mistake, Kinky is the only candidate brave enough to say we need armed military generals on our southern border. This is not a liberal plan.

Now consider Kinky’s party affiliation. Kinky has run for office in the past as a Republican and he voted for Bush/Cheney in 2004.

Here is an excerpt from Kinky’s interview with Ruminator magazine confirms that he supported Bush’s Middle East foreign policy:

Question: So does this idea of the honorable cowboy have anything to do with why you threw your support behind President Bush in this last election? You did, didn’t you?
Kinky: Yes. I did in this last election, but I didn’t vote for him the first time.
Question: Who did you vote for in 2000?
Kinky: I voted for Gore then. I was conflicted. . .but I was not for Bush that time. Since then, though, we’ve become friends. And that’s what’s changed things.
Question: So it’s your friendship with him that’s changed your mind about having him as president more than his specific political positions?
Kinky: Well, actually, I agree with most of his political positions overseas, his foreign policy. On domestic issues, I’m more in line with the Democrats. I basically think he played a poor hand well after September 11. What he’s been doing in the Near East and in the Middle East, he’s handling that well, I think.

Now maybe you are like me and you were worried that Kinky showed liberal tendencies by voting for a tree-hugger like Al Gore. Well, rest assured that Kinky was mistaken when he said that. Kinky’s public voting records confirm he didn’t vote for Al Gore in 2000 because Kinky didn’t waste his vote on any candidate from 1994 to 2004 when he voted for Bush/Cheney.

Maybe you think Kinky’s a liberal because he’s a Jew. Rest assured, Kinky’s views on religion are well to the right of Perry’s. Kinky wants to take time during the school day for prayers in schools, and he wants to post the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

If you want to see a liberal, just see who the Dimocrats are running against Kinky.

Look at Chris Bell’s record in Congress: click here. Bell was not mainstream, Bell was a liberal who

voted NO on banning abortion laws because they didn’t have loopholes,

voted NO on forbidding stem cell research,

voted NO on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage,

voted NO on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance,

voted NO on speeding up approval of forest thinning projects,

voted NO on limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients,

voted NO on reporting illegal aliens who receive hospital treatment, and

was rated 100% by SANE, indicating a pro-peace voting record,

rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record,

rated 93% by the AFL-CIO, indicating a pro-union voting record,

rated 8% by the Christian Coalition: an anti-family voting record, and

rated 0% by FAIR, indicating a voting record loosening immigration.

That’s what a liberal looks like.

Most importantly, Bell biggest claim to fame is being the whistleblower on Tom DeLay. Can you believe a grown man claiming that being a “tattle tale” is one of his biggest career accomplishments? Look at all the litigation that has resulted from the Bell-DeLay dispute: click here. Is litigation a good thing? Plus, I know some people don’t think too highly of Tom DeLay, but no one can deny that he was a very strong leader for Texas and a leader in Congress who brought many valuable federal projects and jobs to Texas, and — thanks to Bell — we can kiss that goodbye.

Look at Bell’s campaign. He’s for making small businesses pay higher wages and making businesses suffer more regulations. That’s not pro-business!

Bell is a liberal. Kinky is a conservative, especially where it comes to immigration and separation of church and state, and Kinky’s strong activism on those two topics is completely appropriate.

Despite all of this, I have been fending off bed-wetting liberals who want to claim Kinky as one of their own.

I would show them that Kinky doesn’t give a rat’s a$$ about political correctness and that Kinky has run for office as a Republican and he’s voted for Bush and he has immigration plans to satisfy the minutemen alongside school prayer plans to satisfy a Baptist minister, but still the liberals would not accept that Kinky is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative.

Even after I showed the liberals where Kinky said that the anti-war, anti-Lieberman wing of the Democratic Party is anti-American, those liberals still held fast to their misbelief that Kinky is a liberal.

Finally, we have an answer from Kinky Friedman himself:
“I’m not a liberal, believe me. I’m a compassionate redneck, far more conservative than I am liberal.”

Left by Kinky is Awesome on September 6th, 2006 at 4:29 pm

That’s all well and good, KisA, but I personally don’t like the terms “liberal” or “conservative” because I’m none of the above. Abortion or gay marriage are not issues with me. I think that people should be free to marry whoever they want, and I think that women should be able to make a choice about whether or not to have a baby. I DO want to see our border secured, and I am completely against amnesty for people who have come here illegally. Like Kinky, I voted for Gore in 2000. I wasn’t devastated that he didn’t win. That’s life. Win some, lose some. I didn’t understand, and still don’t, the people who just couldn’t accept it and move on. It made me embarrassed for our country. I must admit, though, when 9/11 happened, the first thought that came into my mind was “Thank God Gore isn’t president”. Which I thought was pretty weird. I didn’t vote for a presidential candidate in 2004 because I refused to vote for the lesser of two evils. Like I said above, they haven’t yet put a ‘none of the above’ box on the ballot. Oh how I wish they would!

I would love to see term limits on the Senate and the House because the longer these people are in Washington, the further removed they are from real people. I don’t vote for anyone based on party affiliation, I vote on gut feelings. Stupid? Probably, but I sleep just fine at night. This whole dems vs. repubs thing just stinks to high heaven of frat boys at opposing universities. I don’t like it and I wish that politicians would grow up and do what’s best for the country, not their parties.

I’m liking Kinky because he’s unpolished and raw. Maybe he’ll be a total failure IF he gets elected. But he certainly couldn’t be any worse than the status quo.

Labels? Liberal.. conservative…. that leaves out so many of us who are floating in the middle. No one ever speaks to us.

Left by Terr on September 6th, 2006 at 4:46 pm

He’s a liberal. However, since immigration is one of the biggest problems facing this country and neither party is doing anything about it (in fact, they encourage it - cheap votes vs. cheap labor) any canidate who enacted a real solution such as putting the guard on the border would have this conservative’s vote.

Left by Anonymous on September 6th, 2006 at 5:41 pm

[...] Reason 1 — Increasing the National Guard on the Texas border [...]

Left by UrbanGrounds » Blog Archive » Reasons to Vote for Kinky on September 15th, 2006 at 9:33 am