Did They Say ‘Revulsion’?
By Vince Leibowitz on Nov 9, 2006 in 2006 Texas Elections
On Kinky Friedman, the Dallas Morning News noted:
Right up through Tuesday, at a festive gathering at Scholz Beer Garden, Kinky Friedman’s die-hard supporters expected the man in the black hat to ride into office on a tide of popular revulsion with state government.
Uh, did they say ‘revulsion?’ It sounds like how George Bush would pronounce “revolution,” but that’s another story.
In the final analysis, people were simply more repulsed by Kinky Friedman than they were compelled to vote for him for change. By and large, when the topic of “popular revulsion,” comes up, it can more aptly be described as what people felt about Kinky.
Yeah.
Whatever it is that they feel, I feel it about ten times stronger, and those feelings are directed at both them and their candidate.
They all need to go away and stay away from politics in the future, and come back only when they have smarted up enough.
I voted for Kinky and have spoken with many, many Kinky supporters over the past few months. Very few, if any, were voting to express their revulsion with conventional politics.
Quite the opposite: Kinky presented - and, to me, still presents - as a refreshing alternative to apathy; we like Kinky more than we hate Rick Perry, which, I think, is more than you can say for most Bell supporters.