YouTube Hardly Influences Texas Election

A Kinky Spoiler for Texas Democrats

Texas, the great state on the United States southern border, had a very interesting campaign season with the top executive office being hotly contested. The incumbent Republican Governor Rick Perry was being challenged in his reelection bid by Democrat Chris Bell, who hoped to ring the Governor's on election night.

Adding a independent tone was maverick Republican Carol Keeton Strayhorn who worked-her-way-out of the legendary lariat-wrapped Texas State Republican Party 's "disipline" to run on her own. "The Hammer, Tom Delay" was missed by the Texas Republican Party staff, he was the engineer of their recent decade of success at the polls.
Country Western singer and mystery writer, Kinky Freedman added a wild card truely libertarian cigar smoke to the smoldering mesquite of the campaign barbecues.

Meanwhile, to the northeast in Virginia, the most notable contest was that for United States Senator which had the broadcast, print and Internet media in an absolute frenzy of media coverage. It was truely remarkable that a sparsely-attended campaign speech for Virginia's State Republican Party regulars, the "true believers", could cause so much electrons, ink and paper to be expended.

Enter YouTube. Ah yes, YouTube, the "Main Stream Medias" summertime delight, for they love a good story during the "dog days" when a lot of readers and viewers are on vacation.

At this otherwise unremarkable campaign event where the Republican senatorial candidate would get to "press the flesh" (can I say that on a family Internet site?) and sow the seeds of campaign donations to be harvested for the fall elections was a interloper. A paid Democratic Party staffer was there in the audience videotaping the Republican candidtaes speech who spotted him doing that. The candidate was bemused by the Democratic Party staffer taping him and made several remarks to the videographer. "All's fair in love and"...politics also. If you are easily offended don't toss your "head into the ring" as Borat would say.