Kinky says he's too young for Medicare and too old for women to care. A joke doesn't have a very long shelf life, and we've heard that one umpteen times too many. So to add a suffix, he's too stale for voters to care.
He was on the Letterman show last week, and it would have been a great opportunity to wow us with some new material. But no. Just the same old jokes he's been telling for months -- no new material the whole time he's been campaigning.
So if I thought the humor quotient might make him a larger than life Texas governor and provide enough to reason to vote for him, I was wrong.
And the polls show him in the tank, too. Yeah, I know, we shouldn't let the polls influence our votes, but it's sort of a Heisenberg uncertainty principle applied to politics -- measure something closely enough and it changes the outcome.
Stayhorn trails Perry, too, but she's the only other candidate running for governor who has come out in favor of voter initiative and referendum. And even if/when she loses she will probably stay on the scene as a somewhat influential politician.
Getting voter initiative and referendum in Texas is going to be an uphill battle, and it probably doesn't even register on the radar of a lot of Texas voters. But at least Strayhorn was the first to put it out there as a possibility. So when I go vote tomorrow, I'm going to vote for the Strayhorn. You go, gal.
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