Cross-dressing heats up Texas Republican race
Just when I'd begun to think that Texas Republicans couldn't possibly become any wierder and out of touch with reality, I run across this story:
DALLAS - What started as a dull runoff race to field a Republican candidate for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives has heated up due to a controversy over cross-dressing.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Tuesday photographs of candidate Sam Walls dressed in women's clothes have circulated among political leaders in Johnson County, south of Fort Worth. Local Republican leaders confirmed separately that they had seen the photographs of Walls in a wig, dress and high heels....
Walls, 64, who describes himself as a fervent Baptist, told the paper his family had "dealt with" the issue of his cross-dressing and that he asked for forgiveness.
Oh, well, I guess that makes everything OK, then? As long as you're a fervent Baptist and a Republican, you're covered for a whole multitude of potential personal peccadilloes. Hell, I'd vote for Walls just to watch the Republicans in the Legislature fall over themselves in paroxysms of righteous indignation. Jeez, that alone would be worth the price of admission, wouldn't it??
