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Kinky Friedman, and other candidates for the Texas governorship? Johnny Cash was the man in black whose thundering voice became the A Perry debate with Kinky Friedman would be enough to give Rick’s wife true sound of the South. He was the hero of every man behind bars, and his own Anita an acute case of the shivering hooteygobbles. life was a powerful story of recovery and redemption. Before Kinky got done with Rick, Anita would really have something to Peggy Fikac is the best thing to happen to the San Antonio Express and blubber about. And the same would have been the case with a Perry/White de - News since Charlie Kilpatrick left and Rupert Murdoch sold out to Hearst. bate. She is the Express and News Austin political correspondent whose flaming After Perry came crawling home from the Republican primaries with his journalistic blow torch has given Rick Perry no rest or respite since the imbecile tail between his legs, columnist Peggy Fikac chastised the team of loyalists who from Paint Creek jumped into the Republican presidential race. She is honest and helped him achieve an unbroken string of wins in state races over the years. truthful and relentless, and I like relentless people. Rats jump ship Fikac stands out She referred directly to Dave Carney, Perry’s longtime top consultant. With Cary Clack and Scott Stroud gone from the newspaper’s metro sec - Fikac wrote in her Express-News column: tion, the San Antonio paper has had little to offer in the way of local columnists. “Nationally known veterans were brought aboard to try to fix the campaign- Among O. Ricardo Pimentel and other equally boring metro section hacks, Peggy -which became unfixable when Perry ‘oopsed’ his way into debate history by failing Fikac sparkles like a diamond in a goat’s ass. to recall one of the three federal departments he wanted to close.” Fikac knew from the outset what I have known since that cold winter morn - According to Fikac, who obviously has a bunch of anonymous sources on ing that Kinky Friedman assembled a few friends and fans in front of the Alamo to the political front, Dave Carney was fired around Thanksgiving by Joe Allbaugh, call for Governor Rick Perry’s “unconditional surrender.” brought into the Perry camp too late and with too little to get the ship righted. Perry has always been a dim bulb with more ego than brains, and how a Fikac doubts that Carney would work with Perry again . gay-bashing, coyote-shooting bullshitter of his ilk ever got elected governor of Repudiated and ridiculed from coast to coast, Perry has spent nearly $3 Texas in the first place is still hard to fathom. He is a strutting, swaggering Claghorn million of the state’s money, disgraced Texas with his moronic debate perform - who refused to debate his gubernatorial opponents, and who repeatedly spurned ances, and played his Christian religion card in a manner which has led many to editorial board questionnaires from leading Texas newspapers. regard him as a phony and a hypocrite. Kinky Friedman has always been smarter than Rick Perry. I know this to Rick Perry had no more business using his self-professed Christianity as be a fact, and Fikac probably knows as a political weapon than preacher John Hagee has to assault motorists on Loop much herself. And who would blame Bill White if he never considered a race for 1604 with that gigantic billboard advertising himself and his Cornerstone Church. anything in Texas again? Democrat White is a good man and former Houston In blazing, garish technicolor, the gaudy barn-sized billboard is as brightly mayor who really had more than hot air to offer his constituents. lighted as anything on the Vegas Strip, and the hog-jowled countenance of the ro - Friedman didn’t really entertain any notion that he would be a serious can - tund “Pastor Hagee” makes it even more repugnant. didate for governor when he announced as an independent candidate at that Alamo Preacher not needed appearance. Texas motorists don’t need “Mr. Pork Chops” Hagee staring through their Joke turned serious windshields. It was a tongue-in-cheek moment for the Kinkster, an opportunity to sell And Texas voters don’t need Rick Perry with his hokey, self-serving evan - more books, crack more jokes on the Texas stage, and further promote his dog gelical rhetoric, and his hollow claim that Texas has more job opportunities than and cat rescue ranch near Utopia and his column in Texas Monthly.