Go away Rick Perry. It is difficult to decide whether you are a clone of Forrest Gump or Homer Simpson. But given the hell dished out from my friends on the Hou Chron.com for daring to compare Rick Perry to Forrest Gump, I found it necessary to write a letter of apology to Mr. Gump.
According to my HouChron.com friends, at least the fictional character, Forrest Gump, is honest and well-meaning.
The Governor of the once great of Texas, the man who never lost an election in the state, the great conservative hope of the national Republican Party, the God fearing Christian has brought nothing but shame, embarrassment and humiliation to the good people of Texas while on the Presidential campaign trail.
Thank you, Governor, for making the rest of the planet believe that Texas ranks highest on the scale of ignorance and political pandering that only a pimped out politician could deliver.
The good news is that those of us with relatives and friends outside of the state will no longer receive frantic and scathing phone calls, text messages or tweets from shocked and angry relatives. Who on earth voted for this clown they would ask, sometimes two and three times a day.
I dunno, I would reply. Ask the tea party people, the Governor's crony capitalist buddies or the secessionists and xenophobes.
It is also comforting to know that we will no longer have to close our eyes, cover our ears, grind our teeth or dive under the bed or, worse, lock ourselves into dark closets during the Republican Presidential debates anymore.
Please dear sweet Jesus. Please give us the courage to deal with a Governor from a dark hole in hades who ain't right in the head.
Thankfully Rick Perry will no longer be on the stage with the other corporate pimps for the 1%. But at very least these sold out whores for the 1% and the fine upstanding Christian Republicans could at the very least engage their brains and actually debate an issue. As reprehensible as I find their ideologies and policies, at least the other pimps for the 1% were well prepared.
The pundits will analyze the Perry campaign and obsess about its failings 24/7 for the next hour or two.
I would like to move on. However, there are a few last words to be said about Rick Perry and his clown campaign.
A clown campaign that ran exclusively on behalf of the interests and bottom lines of his deep, deep pocketed crony capitalist donors, also known as super PAC king makers, that cost taxpayers a whooping $2.7 million for his security detail. Why the Perry campaign cannot pay for this is beyond me.
A state with a woefully underfunded public school system, police and fire departments and a ruthless and heartless scrooge era social services for the impoverished, had to pony up $2.7 million for the Governor's self-serving political roll in the hay.
I guess voters can take some comfort in knowing that money can't buy love for Rick Perry, at least outside of Texas.
Meanwhile, Slick owes the state a big piece of change.
Therefore, Governor Perry could immediately reimburse 93.21% of his taxpayer-funded security costs, leaving
himself $179.949.59 in debt to the taxpayers of Texas. Governor Perry should be able to repay this remaining
$180,000 between his new national donor base and the extra money he receives each year from his doubledip of retirement and salary from the job he technically has both retired from and still holds
