Those campaign block-walkers have eagle eyes and sharp ears. Got an Aggie flag in your yard or a Jesus fish stuck on your car? Duly noted. Mention that your son is in the Navy? Got it. Such are the snippets of data that Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, has gleaned as his campaign has labored for months to target existing and potential supporters. They’re working house by house across the 22nd Congressional District in advance of Tuesday’s four-way GOP primary.
I can hardly wait until these walking, talking, soulless automatons show up in my neighborhood. I’ll be in full “Billy Joe Gunrack” mode, sitting in my front yard in my underwear, a shotgun in one hand and a Lone Star in the other as I stand guard over my “Lyndon Larouche for President” yard sign. If DeLay is going to employ professional tea leaf readers, why shouldn’t I be able to muddy the waters a bit?
One might hope that DeLay might…oh, I don’t know…attempt to engage his constituents on the issues facing our country and the people of Texas? Instead, his staff is trying to determine how best to pull at the heartstrings of the voters in District 22. Then again, it never has been about contituents for Tom DeLay, has it? His constituency has always been a necessary evil, because without their votes DeLay cannot continue his now-thwarted drive towards complete dominion over Congress and all it surveys.
It would be nice to see DeLay actually engage in a honest-to-God debate on the issues, but most slash-and-burn Conservatives in District 22, and there are no lack of them, are content to delude themselves into thinking that DeLay is a principled man of God who is being persecuted for doing the Lord’ work. Whatever….
