Just for grins and giggles, I decided to put a few of the endorsement lists popular in the Republican primary in a matrix to compare them. Well, that and it will be useful to measure their effectiveness after the election, as I did before. Will Terry Lowry and the Link Letter keep the crown for highest winning percentage? In addition to the pay to play’rs, I added in my actual votes, Rhymes with Right’s recommendations since we have the same ballot, and the Kingwood Tea Party’s recommendations.
Harris County Primary Endorsement Comparison
Not much surprising but definitely some. My little buddy, Mr. Lowry, did not endorse anyone in my state house district, 129, which is interesting because John Davis is a longtime customer of his. I’m grateful that John didn’t give any money to Lowry this go round because the Link Letter is particularly offensive this year. And the fact that Lowry didn’t “endorse” anyone in the Party Chair race is intriguing, especially since both guys wasted money putting this rag in my mailbox and Jared is a long time partaker of Lowry’s services.
About the only interesting thing in Polland’s column is that he didn’t endorse anyone in the 337th Criminal District Court. I mean, you could hate Renee Magee for some reason and still know that Jim Barr is a joke of a candidate. What’s up with Rhymes with Right supporting that guy? Strange.
I didn’t note anything unusual in Hotze’s column but I do have a story. I was talking to Mike Jackson a last week and he told me that he didn’t have enough money to pay Hotze this year and Hotze told him that he was going to put his name on there anyway. Hey, something to be said for taking care of your regular customers. But seriously, I think Hotze often does that – his rag is the most legitimate of the three in that respect.
Let’s go back to the Link Letter for a bit. I’d like to slap every single candidate upside the head that paid Lowry this year. He’s taken despicable to a new level on the whole – Polland still wins on the individual point with his tirade against Kristin Guiney – but the Link Letter this year is a hate filled rag that puts all Republicans in a negative light. While I was working on the matrix I received an email from a long time reader asking me to call him. He wanted to know if there was any law that he could use to keep Lowry from sending this junk to his home. Imagine someone getting ticked off enough to do that. This issue of the Link Letter will do that. Let’s walk through it.
Open It up and page 1 has Franklin Graham whining about political correctness and comparing himself to the Apostle Paul. Turn the page and you have a page and a half of mocking poor people. Why, 99.6{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} of po folks have refrigerators, don’t you know! This happens to be an abridged version of a report on Heritage.org. Why make fun of people that happen to be poor? Oh, so that we as Republicans can look down on them and say that they don’t need any help, that’s why. Continuing on, we learn that the contraception debate was really about conscience. Well, no, it wasn’t, or at least it shouldn’t have been. Don’t get sucked into that – the argument should have been that the government shouldn’t be telling private businesses what products to sell (or in this case give away). But no, we fell into the trap that Axelrod presented to us. Next up we have a warning about “after-birth abortions” in a terribly written piece.
My second favorite is next (hey, we made it to page 6!). Lily white, suburb living, elderly Terry Lowry includes a piece by Bill Cosby in which Mr. Cosby laments the state of the black family and community. Fine, we all know they have troubles. But honestly, what purpose does this serve in an election “journal” that is sent to 99.99{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} elderly, suburban, white folk? Complete with a picture of a “tough” looking black kid holding a handgun. And we wonder why Democrats say we are racist?
We go from there to Phyllis Schlafly whining about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Darlin’, she’s been on the court for almost 20 years. Get over it.
I’ll pass on commenting on the next page, which has Sen. Patrick bloviating. Page 9 brings us some more whining from a Professor of Political Science at Grove City College (you know, the Harvard of Grove City, Pennsylvania?). “Dr.” Paul Kengor has decided that only Democrats use churches as political tools. Dude has never been to Lakewood, I suppose, where the flag hangs high and the cross hangs hidden.
Pages 10 and 11 are actually about the election! But pages 12 and 13 remind us that we have become a dependency nation under President Obama. Interesting use of colors in a graph – everyone before Obama gets a green bar, Obama gets a red one even though all of the bars represent the same data type, direct payments to individuals as a share of GDP. Classic.
Pages 14 and 15 remind us that the French are wimps and that we saved their country in WWII but if we remind them about that, you can hear a pin drop. Don’t worry, I’m almost done.
Page 16 tops the list, especially since we are Republicans and we are going to unite behind Mitt Romney in our efforts to oust President Obama. Right? Aren’t we?
Well, I guess us men folk are because guess what? Why would any woman vote for a Mormon? Huh? Hmm? Why? Why, why, why? You see, women folk can only get to the highest level of heaven if their man calls them by their special name. Otherwise, they end up in one of two lower heavens for the not so good.
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? THIS IS WHAT PASSES FOR AN ELECTION NEWSLETTER?
Like I said, I’d like to slap every single one of the candidates that gave this jerk money to put this crap in my mailbox. That includes you , David Dewhurst. You Pat Lykos (see update below). You Mike Anderson. You Dan Patrick. You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you!
Unfreaking believable.
UPDATE: I made an error – this is what happens when I see the Link Letter, I get mad and make mistakes. Pat Lykos DID NOT have an ad in the Link Letter this year. I had Gary Polland’s booklet out and it was open to her page on my desk and I saw it and added her to the list. My mistake but it is one that I am most happy to correct.