She's one of the newer New York Times columnists, Gail Collins. Her most recent column points out once again just how crazy it is in Texas. This goofy governor of theirs Rick Perry who's embarrassing himself and his state daily is a perfect symbol of a place that, like Florida, has always been slightly unhinged.
Just a few days ago, Collins had a lot of fun in her column demonstrating this. To wit: a story about an assault with a frozen armadillo. Then there's the one about the pissed off Taco Bell customer who took out his aggressions with . . . not a taco, not a burrito. No, with a frigging gun! (But of course.) “Brian Tillerson, a manager at the Taco Bell/KFC restaurant, told The
San Antonio Express-News that the man was angry the Beefy Crunch Burrito
had gone from 99 cents to $1.49 each." Oh, well, hell. That explains it completely.
All this led up to a few paragraphs about Herman Cain, the pizza man who's running for the GOP presidential nomination. The latest on him is that three different women are accusing him of sexual harassment when he was heading up the National Restaurant Association, or something like that. Collins dismisses Cain. "Sexual harassment is a serious subject. But Herman Cain isn’t." Right. It's not worth discussing. Odds are, the guy's guilty, but he finished anyway as somebody anybody could take seriously. Unfortunately, the whole country is thinking like Texans. This can't be good.
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according to rachel maddow, cain's campaign isn't real anyway; it's brilliant street theatre....that does make a lot more sense than cain as serious candidate....
i trust you've seen perry's incredible new hampshire speech? like one of those great old dick van dyke routines when rob has been hypnotised to act drunk any time a bell rings, and so he'll be having a normal conversation and say something like 'i live in new rochelle, and a bell rings and he keeps repeating the sentence and giggling drunkenly....total standup comedy.......i really think, much as i loathe him, romney is the only one of the lot with a triple-digit iq. remember the old days, when palin was the only comically stupid pol...[well, her and george bush...]
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