Maher said no more presidents from Texas

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

because they believe the answer to every problem is either more guns or more Jesus.

Now yea, that's funny, har har har.

But, come on Bill, you're killing me over here! One more time: BUSH ISN'T TEXAN!!!!!

Living in west Texas for about three years of your childhood HARDLY qualifies you for transplant status! He put on a fake drawl, bought that pig farm during the 2000 primaries and suddenly he's Texan???

Forget that he was governor, I wasn't living in the state at the time and apparently my fellow Texans had COMPLETELY LOST THEIR EVER-LOVING MINDS.

He's NOT Texan, Bill, repeat it after me. Stop perpetuating that myth, as fun as it is to make fun of us.

[DenverDem]

1. busholini jr was born in HARTFORD, for Jebus sake.

He's an oil carpetbagger yankee. We will send him back to freaking MAINE in 05.

There are a lot of ignorant peckerwoods in Texas, but there are ignorant peckerwoods in South Boston, too.

The liberals from Texas are the most courageous and committed in the world, because it's no damn fun to be a liberal there, yet they fight on. Molly Ivins is perhaps the most eloquent liberal columnist going AND SHE'S TEXAN. Jim Hightower, likewise TEXAN. Remember Barbra Jordan, TEXAN. Ann Richards, Texan.

Blanket Texan slamming is counterproductive as hell, BECAUSE TEXAS IS IN PLAY IN NOVEMBER.

Support Texas Democrats. Stop the Texas demonization.

[NoPasaran]

3. The sign on I-95 claims it was New Haven

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

7. I've heard both, it's that weird???

[NoPasaran]

12. Quick Google survey indicates New Haven

Also my mom's hometown, much to her chagrin!

[DenverDem]

9. You are correct. Sorry Hartford.

To much Texan indignation rage to think straight.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

4. WHOOOP!!!!

Thank you SO MUCH for that post, from a Texas Democrat and liberal. In fact, I am going to a meetup in a few hours for a woman who is running for state rep against a repuke who has been in Austin for WAY too long and she's gonna win, too. His supporters have gone all lukewarm and not too many people are even paying attention to this race, anyway. Her supporters are SERIOUSLY mobilized.

It is hard to be a liberal here, but maybe not as hard as everyone else thinks. I ride around with pro-Kerry anti-bush stickers on my van, have Kerry signs in the windows of my house, wear anti-bush t-shirts and I've not suffered one bit for it. Liberals are reaching out and finding each other BIG time here and you know how it started?

Dean. He was like a breath of fresh air to a lot of liberals in Texas and he got us fired up again.

I loved reading TEXAS IS IN PLAY. GAME ON!!!!

[Warpy]

2. Well, to be fair

he's spent most of his adult life (well, prolonged pubescence in an adult body) in and around Houston, unless he was drilling dry wells around Midland.

Yeah, he's a preppy banty rooster, but he's adopted Texas through and through, thinking Texas is where good people go when they die and preserving his Texas buddies and their fortunes to the detriment of the rest of the country.

It's an attitude such that I propose a constitutional amendment preventing anyone who has been born in, grown up in, or lived in Texas for any length of time ineligible for public office until such time as that state decides to join the rest of the country in ideals and culture.

Hell, throw California, which has given us Nixon and Reagan, in there too, so Texas doesn't feel particularly picked on.

(tongue firmly in cheek)

[NoPasaran]

5. Nixon ran as a New Yorker

http://www.fact-index.com/u/u_/u_s__presidential_election__1968.html

Want to ban them too?

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

6. I see where you're coming from

but I say make it where if you run for office, you can't just co-opt another identity. He's fake, through and through. And he figured his fascist ideas would go down better here. And it SEEMS they have.

Problem is, if everyone eligible to vote in Texas VOTED in November, we'd go blue so fast it'd be like watching a giant Texas-shaped SMURF appear on the horizon. Seriously.

[Lisa]

10. I've just got this vision of Kinky Friedman as governor ...

With Molly Ivins as his second-in-command. That would be cool!


http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/ballstour.html

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

15. Oh my God he would ROCK

[Blue Gardener]

8. Ann Richards

I would vote for her in a heartbeat.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

11. Hell YEAH

Or Molly Ivins. Molly, wither wilt thou go? Run for office, please!!!

[LiviaOlivia]

Dupe

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

14. Hear hear

I second this motion.

Can we hear the votes? NO MORE BUSHES EVER!!!!!!

[LiviaOlivia]

13. No No No more Presidents or office holders from the Bush gene pool

No matter if they are from Connecticut, Texas, Florida, Colorado,
Saudi Arabia or any where else in this universe.

[NoPasaran]

16. Okay, I can agree to THAT! n/t