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Fri, 27 Oct 2006

Well, the post below has shattered all records for traffic over here, and it's still on fire today. Most of the traffic is coming from forwarded emails now. And there have been a lot of jumps to the Bell site. Thanks to Burnt Orange.

There was a third exchange of email in the series, but it really doesn't add anything substantive to the conversation; just more of the same talking points. Mostly I explained my view that the "Internet is the work of Satan" comment was damaging to them because it was uttered in the context of the question "Why don't you research your facts better?" What was telling to me about that exchange was the Bush-like contempt for facts, not the comment itself. Take both interpretations together, and you have a rock-dumb thing to say in a publicly televised political debate. The boat started taking on water at that moment.

My final paragraph to them simply said that this is not and has never been about Kinky. Kinky is not the subject here. The Governor's seat is the subject here. And the only capital crime in a political campaign is taking your eyes off of the prize. Punishment is immediate, irrevocable, and terminal.

I supported Kinky because I saw him as the best vehicle for getting Perry out of the governor's mansion first and foremost. He no longer has that distinction, and he no longer has my support. The Kinky clan is on a crusade for Kinky; fine, they're expected to be. It's not a cult of personality for me, and never was. It's bloodsport to me; he didn't deliver.

That's my definition of independent politics.

Posted at 13:06 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink] [Reload all] [E-mail]