Secret Endorsements ?

The late great Molly Ivins once said, "Good thing we've still got politics in Texas -- finest form of free entertainment ever invented." She went on to say Texas politics was, "Better than the zoo. Better than the circus." I think she was referring to the endless stream of nuts and truly weird people who run for public office in this state.

And it looks like that tradition is still intact. The funny and very insightful Juanita Jean (proprietor of The World's Most Dangerous Beaty Salon, Inc.), has found one of these nuts running for Congress in her congressional district -- CD22 (Tom DeLay's old district). Sadly, I can't even write this candidate's nuttiness off to being a Republican, because he's running in the Democratic primary.

The candidate in question is the Reverand John Weider. Weider is a real estate and insurance salesman who decided God wanted him to be a preacher. He was only ordained last May, and he is already willing to leave the pulpit for a job in Congress. I guess god was disappointed in his ministerial skills and has now told him to run for Congress. His main issue is his anti-choice stance (which should prove to be popular with Democratic voters -- NOT!).

But Rev. Weider (pictured) revealed his true nuttiness with a rather peculiar post he put on the Brazoria County Democratic Party Facebook page. Weider said, "Hello, I have received several endorsements in the last few days but an agreement was reached to keep them secret to the ballot box." What??? Secret Endorsements? Doesn't that completely defeat the only purpose of an endorsement (to help you get more votes)?

In her own inimitable fashion Juanita Jean hits the nail on the head when she says, "Well, don't that just jar your preserves? I mean, until this very moment I thought the word endorsement meant being public about your support. Can't you just see his endorsement list? Forty-five listings of 'Anonymous', God, and his mother. Unless, of course, God and his mother would prefer to stay anonymous, too, which is probably pretty darn likely."

Think those "secret endorsements" will get him a lot of votes?