Yeah, I run into a lot of Gabby Hays-type characters. Some days I feel like a Gabby Hays-type character. But at least I've stayed out of prison. So far ...
The apparent groundswell for Bush--who accomplished little in his first term as governor and has been rewarded with adulation for it--simply dumbfounds me. Sort of like the groundswell for Clinton in 1992, which seemed to come out of nowhere. At least Clinton didn't have a famous daddy (although he did have some well-heeled sugardaddies) but like Bush and Taft he found you don't go wrong politically by filling up prisons and greasing the machinery of death. But like your man Fisher found out, it's awful hard to get to the right of Republicans on law and order; if the voters are looking for fascists they'll look for the GOP label. See, there is still such a thing as brand loyalty in the US of A.
-- Jim
>
>Dear Jim,
>
>How many people in your world are there who could best be described as
>being Gabby
>Hays' type characters? You know the type, they got opinions on everything and
>those opinions often change in mid-sentence. Describing Gabby characters
>as being
>loquacious would be an under-statement. Put 'em on TV and it's hard to
>tell what
>they can be coached to say, "God bless America and hang 'em high". Also,
>I wonder
>how many Gabbies there are in Texas prisons today, for making a "little"
>mistake
>with a substance and or a gun?
>
>Jim, for the New Yorkers on the list, it's been a long and steep descent
>from John
>Garfield to Howard Stern. So I wouldn't feel too bad about a couple of shady
>characters like the Bush brothers.
>
>In Ohio newly elected Governor Bob Taft recently executed a homicidal
>handyman;
>this was the first execution in Ohio since 1963. I think it was sort of like
>keeping up with the Bushes for Taft. The Bushes and Taft belong to the same
>church too.
>
>Our failed Democratic candidate for Governor, Lee Fisher tried to go to
>the right
>of Taft on the law and order stuff a la John Claude van Damm, without any
>success.
>
>I wonder how many people on this list have read all three volumes of
>Victor Hugo's
>Les Miserable?
>
>Your email pal,
>
>Tom L.
>
>