Cowboy Confessional

I just watched the highest pile of political equestrian exhaust thus far this millennium, the Texas Governor’s debate.

With the exception of Kinky Friedman, who gave inarticulation a good name, the assembled candidates lofted answer so empty that they defied gravity. Strayhorn was feisty and non-specific in her answers, Perry was busy skirting issues, and Bell was practicing hypnosis and putting the audience asleep.

Most of the fault can be assigned to the media mavens who selected a fast paced, fractured, and anti-intellectual format that included 60 second answers, 30 second rebuttals, and media/candidate interrogations that the CIA is now considering for use at Guantanamo.

At least Kinky referred government bureaucrats as “old farts” live, which likely shook up some of those old farts.

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