It is the real honest to goodness ad for crazy Teabagger, Dan Patrick a state senator who is now aiming for the Lt. Governor position in Texas.
He is also the guy whose Twitter account featured this tweet a few days back:
When Dan Patrick has a twitter typo, he has one heck of a twitter typo. pic.twitter.com/1gRwqKqNGP
— Michael Li (@mcpli) February 26, 2014
Yeah, but of course that was the fault of some underling who is too stupid to tweet what the Senator wanted tweeted, right? I mean is not ignorant enough to have made the mistake himself.Yeah right.
As the political advertisement says Patrick is the guy who pushed for the mandatory sonograms for women seeking abortion in Texas, so that they can be humiliated before making one of the most difficult decisions of their life. And he is also the guy who sprinkled references to God all over Texas politics.
What better way to prove his Christy credentials.
Now call me a cynic (Trust me I have been called worse.) but when somebody puts their Christian faith at the top of their list of attributes, that simply makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and for me red flags start waving all over the damn place.
I naturally assume that pretty much every politician running for office in Texas is a Christian (After all it IS Texas!), so when one of them gets all up in my face over their faith my first instinct is that they are somebody who does not want to be looked at too carefully, and instead hopes that Christianity provides a cloak of obfuscation that will immediately instill trust.
Of course only a moron believes that simply self identifying as a Christian automatically makes somebody trustworthy.
And as it turns out, Texas has more than its fair share of morons.
This from TFN Insider:
The Dallas Morning News reports that four Texas politicians — politicians often aligned with religious-right groups that use faith as a political weapon — were among the victims of a Ponzi-like scheme run by a North Texas businessman. It seems they trusted the scammer because he appeared to be a good Christian and “godly man.”
According to the Morning News, state Rep. Bill Zedler, R-Arlington; state Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford; state Sen. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney; and former state Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Center, invested separately a total of $331,000 in an energy-trading finance company. They were among more than 20 other Texans who invested about $2.5 million in Archer Bonnema’s company, Pirin Electric.
Bonnema, who claimed to have helped find Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat a few years back, appears to have specifically targeted Christian conservatives as potential investors.
Well of course he did, who could possibly be more gullible?
"I'm a Christian, would I lie to you?" The answer is of course they would.
And it happens all of the time. In fact our prisons are bulging with Christians.
Dan Patrick's Christian credentials should not immediately ingratiate him to the voters of Texas, instead they should have their guard up and their critical thinking skills turned up to high.
Because as Thor is my witness, this guy is up to no good.
Calling Dr. Freud! Apex projectionist in Ward 3!
ReplyDeleteHe'll never live this down. Good.
ReplyDeleteI truly don't understand these people. I am a Christian. That fact has never been on my resume. It has no business being on my resume. It has no business being on their resume. It says nothing about what kind of a leader they are.
ReplyDeleteWhat it is is a tribal marker, used to gain possibly- undeserved loyalty and favoritism when comparing two or more candidates. It's something similar to coming from the same college or state when interviewing for a job; for some people, claiming that commonality gives them an edge.
DeleteI call these people "Christianist", instead of Christian, because for them it's not the lifestyle, it's the label.
Non progressive Christians who judge and do not want to help the poor need to read their Bible.
ReplyDeleteMatthew 19:21
Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
It's a damn good thing he stopped at #3 because it's a pretty safe bet that #4 is "I am a douchebag".
ReplyDeleteThen there is "I am not a witch". Those baggers sure know how to kick off a campaign.
ReplyDeleteI am waiting for "I am not an a**hole".
When Sarah Palin applied for the job of police dispatcher for the City of Palmer in 1996 she listed among her 'strengths': "Lifelong resident of Alaska" and "An innate ability to be in the right place at the right time". Her PD application had to be sworn, and not surprisingly it's full of easy-to-prove lies that Sarah Palin swore to. All the details are in 'The Lies of Sarah Palin', written by Geoffrey Dunn and published in 2011.
ReplyDeleteNot surprisingly, Palin didn't get the job with her resume full of lies- and not surprisingly she hasn't held a real job since.
The Republican party has become a religious cult.
ReplyDeleteI love it, but he's wrong. A marriage can be between one woman and another woman. Give them enough rope, and their "Wide Stance" will show up sooner or later. The GOP is the Stepford Party of exclusion and glee at being on the wrong side of every issue.
ReplyDeleteDan Patrick read the sports on TV when I was a kid. I think he owned a few bars in the Houston area.
ReplyDeleteTexasMel
Right up to the end I felt like I was watching a "Miss Lindsey" moment,and then the macho man jumped in with the last word. I couldn't help laughing at the contrast.
ReplyDeleteAs Martin Luther once said, "I would rather be governed by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian."
ReplyDeleteSadly, there's a lot of foolish Christians running for office in Texas.