OT National Laboratory for Bad Government

rw wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Big Dale wrote:
...Kinky Friedman.

He's not a politician, he's a comedy act.

This is from someone who voted (so he says) for Nader in 2000. Nader was
a comedy act that wasn't funny. Not even very slightly funny -- he split
the progressive vote and threw the election to Bush.

Nader was the Green Party candidate in 2000 and a vote for Nader
in Illinois didn't throw the election. If he had received 5% of
the vote in Illinois the Green Party would have been on subsequent
ballots without having to submit petitions.

If anything, Kinky
Friedman has MORE chance of being elected than Nader did in 2000, or in
any other year, and if he isn't then we can rest assured that Texas will
have no ****tier politics than it already has.

They both have exactly the same chance, zero. But Nader came awful
close to getting the Green Party on the ballot in Illinois while
there's not an ice cubes chance in hell that Kinky Friedman's name
will appear anywhere on a Texas ballot unless the voter writes him
in.

--
Ken Fortenberry