They LOVE Kinky at freerepublic

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Collected from freerepublic.com:

"YOU GO BOY!!!! Vote Kinky. Yahoooooooo!!" by no dems

"kinky will kill the rat {Democrat}. He will draw off the wild insane rank and file rat voters." by jmaroneps37

"Kinky is a frikkin' loone, but I love him!" by LIConFem

"As far as I'm concerned, Rick Perry is selling Texas highways, that we bought and paid for, to the toll road people. I've met Kinky a few times over the years and at least know he'll be interesting and sincere." by Brucifer

"As Governor, Perry has abandoned me. I will...{vote Kinky}" by jy8z

"I've been an ACTIVE Republican since 66 and have never voted for a dim for Governor, but I WILL NOT vote for Perry again. Kinky may be a nut but goodness knows we've had nutty Governors before. If I'm healthy in November I will do all I can to beat Perry." by HoustonCurmudgeon

"Kinky is a lot more conservative than most people realize. He has a good campaign strategy. He's appealing to young adults and college students who think he's a liberal, which he clearly is not if you look at his stance on immigration, death penalty, prayer in school, and energy. The stupid college students think he's a hippie who's obviously a liberal and are throwing their support behind him without knowing better." by returnofthemack

"I have to imagine half his supporters in Austin would drop dead of shock if they read this interview on line here http://www.ruminator.com/content/040501.html. Here's the excerpt that would KILL those Austinistas: SM: So does this idea of the honorable cowboy have anything to do with why you threw your support behind President Bush in this last election? You did, didn’t you? KF: Yes. I did in this last election, but I didn’t vote for him the first time. SM: Who did you vote for in 2000? KF: I voted for Gore then. I was conflicted. . .but I was not for Bush that time. Since then, though, we’ve become friends. And that’s what’s changed things. SM: So it’s your friendship with him that’s changed your mind about having him as president more than his specific political positions? KF: Well, actually, I agree with most of his political positions overseas, his foreign policy. On domestic issues, I’m more in line with the Democrats. I basically think he played a poor hand well after September 11. What he’s been doing in the Near East and in the Middle East, he’s handling that well, I think. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! (I'm just wondering: how many blame-American-first liberals in Kinky's campaign have read this interview?). One especially funny "bonus fact" about this interview is that Kinky was just pulling the interviewer's leg when Kinky said he voted for Gore in 2000 (no doubt trying to appear more "independent" in light of his support for Bush and his past run for office as a Republican). Kinky's voting records confirm he didn't vote for Gore (or anyone) in 2000." by NoTaxTexas

"If I lived there, I would vote for Kinky." by ridesthemiles

"I hate to say it, but it's come down to voting for that wacked out Kinky." by mtbopfuyn

"Kinky has my vote. And I'm not alone." by RichardW

"I knew that he supported prayer in schools but do not recall his other comments on this subject. He is not politically correct (but many of his volunteers are). I also know that he has not taken the anti-Bush stance of many in Austin music. He has visited the Bush White House." by weegee

"I think more important than Kinky winning the election in 2006 is that Chris Bell (D) come in a distant third in Texas. And if Perry wins but sees any considerable drop in Republican voters, then maybe the politicians will wake up." by weegee

"We could do better than Kinky I'm sure but I am also certain that we could do worse. This is not an endorsement or even any committment from me. I'm an still undecided between Perry and Kinky, and there is a lot of difference between them. Perry had better play to the Republican base but good. Maybe he should start reading the party platform." by weegee

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1. Wing nuts for Kinky!

If more wing nuts to vote for Kinky, that takes votes away from Perry. That's good for us!

"Kinky may be a nut but goodness knows we've had nutty Governors before" by HoustonCurmudgeon

Uh that would be the real dim one, G.W. huh?

Maybe he should start reading the party platform." by weegee

:rofl:

You are so brave to venture into that pit. I just don't have the stomach for it.

Sonia

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2. I made this perilous venture into the pit of freeperdom so that you and

others could use the comments to show your Kinky-leaning Democrat friends who they are buddying up to when they "save themselves for Kinky."

[Lithos]

3. And you are surprised how?

At least it's pukes being siphoned off of Perry...

L-

[GAPeace]

4. He's much more progressive than the Republicans from what I hear

this is living proof that some people won't vote liberal just because of the word 'Democrat"

[NoPasaran]

5. You hear wrong

Unless supporting the death penalty, school prayer, and Bush* foreign policy has somehow become progresive. He's almost as big a jerk as Ron Paul.

[tbyg52]

6. Yep, I thought about writing him...

...regarding school prayer and posting the ten commandments (which version?), but 1) I doubt he'd get it and 2) I don't want him to win anyway. Those two issues are all it took for me--the man obviously hasn't read the Constitution.

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7. On immigration and chruch-state issues, Kinky's the furthest right-wing

of all four candidates.

In addition, Texas minorities haven't generally found Kinky's racial "jokes" very funny.

There is a good discussion of that at http://stopkinky.blogspot.com, here's an excerpt:

The internal crosstabs at the latest SurveyUSA poll (here: <http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=5d90d44a-e155-4d92-8f08-14fd1696d602>) show that Kinky has the least support of all the candidates among Black voters. Kinky's support among likely Black voters is down to 6% and down even lower to 4% among those racial minorities who did not list their race. Kinky's paltry level of support is less than half the support among Black voters than even notoriously unpopular Governor Perry receives.

Why is Kinky's support so low among likely Black voters?

What could be diminishing Kinky's support in the Black community to less half the level of the widely disliked governor?

Could it be this video from Kinky's appearance last November on CNBC's "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch" (here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=C9mXTxEQI3A) where Kinky explained his view that criminals should be punished by locking them in prison and making them "listen to a Negro talking to himself"?

Could that be why Kinky is so distrusted in the Black community?

Or perhaps Kinky is so unpopular among Black voters because Donny Deutsch asked if Kinky's statement was possibly a little racist, and Kinky replied that "Negro is a charming word."

Maybe that's why Kinky is widely unpopular among Black voters.

Likewise, the crosstabs at the SurveyUSA poll show that Kinky has the least support of all the candidates among Hispanic voters.

Why is Kinky's support so low among likely Hispanic voters?

Could it be the newspaper interviews where Kinky promises to take "a harder line on immigration" than any of the other candidates and where Kinky says the Tejano protesters marching in favor of immigration reform are "half playing hooky"? (here: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/14367663.htm)

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More at http://stopkinky.blogspot.com/2006/07/kinky-vs-texas-minorities-why-they.html

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8. More Kinky Love from Freerepublic

"I like Kinky." by trisham

"Kinky would be a refreshing change." by detroitdarien

"I love reading the liberals at http://jobsanger.blogspot.com/ and http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/24/124018/017 supporting a guy who will welcome prayer in public schools and post the 10 Commandments in classrooms (why doesn't Perry join that proposal?), and who will build a wall on the border and make Mexico enforce the border (why doesn't Perry join that proposal?), and who will fund our education system with casinos instead of raising our property taxes and imposing a new income tax on small businesses (why doesn't Perry join that proposal?). Every dope-smoking Austinista who has a Kinky bumper sticker next to her Kerry bumper sticker makes my life a little better." by NoTaxTexas

"Friedman said he plans to use money raised by legalized gambling to solely support education, but that he will leave legalized gambling as an option to be determined by individual districts of Texas. Sounds almost like a Conservative. Friedman said he also hopes to reform education by getting rid of the TAKS test, which he said dumbs down the system. Really sounds like a Conservative - get rid of federal control of the public schools. He also plans to work to put prayer back in schools. "What's wrong with a kid believing in something?" he said. That will never happen, the ACLU would go into a frenzy." by af_vet_rr

"I, too, am in the Kinky camp. Rick Perry has lost touch with what benefits regular Texans, such as myself. I was actually going to cast a non-vote this time around until I was invited to a Kinky get together. He impressed me with his warmth and sincerity. He is on record as saying he would only be a one term Governor. I am willing to give him that chance. And it seems that more and more Texans are lining up to do the same. Go Kinky" by jy8z

"I'm sick to death of the taxes and illegal immigrants situation in this state. And, don't even get me started on the fact that the great Republic of Texas has some of the worst handgun laws in the nation! This is TEXAS, for cryin' out loud! I haven't seen one thing on Kinky's "to do" list that I didn't like." by inneroutlaw