John Neely Kennedy, aka Randy Quaid as Cousin Eddie, has gotten a lot of national publicity over his latest reelection ad in which he admonishes those who hate cops to “CALL A CRACKHEAD” the next time they’re in trouble.
And national publicity is exactly what he was shooting for. It was, especially with the not-so-subtle racist overtones, vintage Kennedy.
Louisiana’s answer to Foghorn Leghorn – “Son, Ah say, son, You ‘bout as useless as taste buds on a butthole” – is a throwback to Earl Long, but without the charm or the good looks. He is convinced (and he’s probably correct, given the collective depth of political perception of the average Louisiana voter) that the more homilies he can throw out, the more votes he will capture.
On President Biden’s announced intention of nominating a black woman to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, Jed Clampett, er Kennedy opined that he’d prefer a nominee “who knows a law book from a J. CREW CATALOG.”
Clever, Gomer, er Kennedy. Except when once used, you don’t keep coming back with the same line – or even a variation of it – like your earlier line which substituted L.L. Bean for L. Crew. I should know; it’s why I quit stand-up at a local comedy club. After years there, everyone in Baton Rouge had heard my joke.
And let’s not forget his opposition to all things that reek of socialism. Things like public roads and bridges, police and fire protection, water and sewer systems, public stadiums where rich athletes play, public schools, public libraries, recreation programs where your kids or grandkids play organized sports, zoos, social security, Medicare, FEMA, and the VA. And before any of you start confusing socialism with communism (they’re two entirely different philosophies), answer one question for me: what did you do with your stimulus checks you received during the pandemic? If you sent them back, you are free to criticize; If you cashed them, do not pass Go on this board game.
But what really puzzles me is why Kennedy, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, and other fringe lunatic Republicans are so down on wokeness.
- Aren’t they the ones who insist that we “Don’t say gay”?
- Aren’t they the ones who insist that “offensive” books be removed, or at least relocated, in our public libraries?
- Aren’t they the ones who substituted “All Lives Matter” for “Black Lives Matter”?
- Aren’t they the ones who bitch and moan every time someone suggests a ban on assault weapons so there won’t be so many school children slaughtered?
- Aren’t they the ones who are scared to death of those hordes of murderers and rapists flooding our southern border?
- Aren’t they the ones stripping away women’s right of choice?
- Aren’t they the ones terrified of minority voting rights?
It doesn’t get any wokier than that.
Kennedy boasts in his ads that he was cited as one of the “10 most effective Republican senators in the 117th Congress. Well, considering the competition, that designation is no great shakes.
There’s Rick Scott who, as CEO of Health Management Associates, agreed to pay a fine of $260 million for Medicare/Medicaid fraud; Ted “Cancun” Cruz, “Lapdog” Lindsey Graham, Josh “Watch Me Run” Hawley, Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, and Tommy Tuberville, just to name a few of the contenders.
Tom. please check out the mailout from Caleb Kleinpeter, who appears like Gomer Pyle as a “Combat Veteran” who is going to “Protect our Conservative principles from the “Woke”. Will contact you later thanks. Go Top Gun ron thompson
We see through you on how you write you flip every thing around and think we will belive you
This is a good example of why I almost never reply to the comments of others. Too many questions to even know where to begin. Is Danny some 90 year old guy who never learned to type or use a keyboard? Is he under 30 and so wouldn’t know correct punctuation and spelling if it slapped him in the face? Is he lazy? Or do his comments represent his full intellectual capacity? Even getting past that what exactly is his complaint? I get that “flip every thing around” means Danny disagrees – with everything I suppose – but it’s impossible to say why or in what way he disagrees and so any response is sheer guesswork. And then nothing I could say would possibly matter to Danny anyway.
Someone should share Louisiana geography with Garrett Graves that OUR southern border is the Gulf of Mexico. So is he running to represent Louisiana or Texas or Arizona?
Kennedy was given, I mean he raised $10 million to campaign…What has he spent it on…a vintage ad. Kennedy knows that if he doesn’t do or say something racist…I mean stupid…I mean…All American…hmmm, the KKK, I mean Proud B…I mean Trumpster cult is going to oust him just like they did Cassidy… BTW, where is Ol’ Cassie Boy?
Good laughs, Tom. Too bad the joke’s on us. I’m sure JNK is laughing his way to the election over the fact the Democratic Party doesn’t have sense enough to strongly get behind one of their candidates and put up a good fight for victory in November. I really don’t want to change my registration to No Party, but if mine won’t even make an effort to fight Republican domination of our country why stay with it?
Repugnicans serving at both the local and federal levels fail to appreciate the fact federal revenue, i.e., socialism, provides 45.80%, $19.69 billion, of Louisiana’s 2023 budget. So much for “big bad socialism.” I guess we should “combat” socialism by giving the money back to the feds.