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Local Republicans get dunked
Not long ago, if the local Republican Party or any of the local clubs needed some funds, they would call a few highrollers and schedule a banquet at a swanky hotel. Everyone would dress up, Jeeves would bring around the car, and then Mr. and Mrs. Republican would enjoy a night of carping and sniping at fellow Republicans while pretending to like them. In the process, they would all open their checkbooks and, like honey from the rock, the money would flow to the local Republican Party. That was then, this is now.
My, how times have changed.
To raise money for local Republicans, officeholders and candidates are getting on a dunking booth in Fulshear.
This is not a knock on Fulshear. I love that little town. One of the best kept secrets in the county is "Fulshear Follies" held on one Friday night each month. It's a fun little outdoor festival with food and entertainment. The one held in March was a stand-out, with live music and Irish step dancing performed by a local group who danced on four sheets of plywood duct-taped together on the bank parking lot. Outstanding!
But, www.FortBendNow.com reports that Republicans will be raising money in Fulshear at the July 4th follies. According to the story, the dunking booth "will be sponsored by the Fort Bend County Republican Party. A variety of area elected officials and political candidates will take turns as targets in the dunk tank. All proceeds will benefit the Fort Bend Republican Party."
Are you kidding me? Republican officeholders and candidates are getting on a dunking booth to raise a few bucks? Has fundraising dried up (sorry about that) so much that judges and county commissioners have to sit on a dunking booth seat?
This is a moral dilemma for me.
If I cash my paycheck down at Shop-n-Sak and head to Fulshear to hurl a bucket of baseballs at the dunking booth, I will be contributing to the local Republicans. That's not good.
But, if I don't head to Fulshear, I'll be missing the chance to humiliate local Republican officeholders and candidates before they are humiliated again at the polls in November.
What do I do? What would you do?
I want to say yes dunk them but I don't want you to give them money. Hire a great arm to dunk them for you. lol
Any chance those balls could miss the target but hit the target? A political bean ball, if you get my drift.
People that elect and re-elect George Bush and support cretins like John Cornyn and John Culberson have no shame so it is really hard to humiliate them. It'll just make it that much more delightful in November to watch them squirm, particularly when the indictments start flowing.
I say go ahead and indulge, announcing your purpose loudly. Maybe it'll make the papers. And I don't think the money is going to help them that much anyway.....
I'd show up with a handful of $20 bills and a sign that says "Where's Bush?"
Take your own balls to throw at them and then run like hell.
If Tom Delay is there to help out his fellow Repugs....by all means spend a buck!!
The answer, my friend, is simple. For every dollar you spend dunking the poor hopefuls you must donate a dollar to the local Democrat who opposes them. Sleep easy!
Just stand there with a cold one in your hand and let the republicans spend their money. You can still razz them as they get dunked without spending money on them.