Mystery novelist and comedy country-western star Kinky Friedman (of Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys) is running for governor of Texas again. I think he's the best man for the job.
"We're Number One in executions and we're Number 49 in funding public education," Friedman said, and then later told the crowd he's for nondenominational prayer in public schools.
"What's wrong with a kid believing in something?" he asked.
An animal lover, Friedman vowed to outlaw the declawing of cats and promised to appoint singer and well-known marijuana smoker Willie Nelson as head of the Texas Rangers.
Like Minnesota's Jesse Ventura in 1998 and California's Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003, Friedman's nontraditional candidacy could garner serious support, said political analyst Larry Hufford of St. Mary's University in San Antonio.
(Thanks, JoeK!)
