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For those of you who don’t already know, I’m originally from the US state of Tennessee – which, you may have noticed, only makes national headlines under specific circumstances that can currently be broken down into three basic categories:
1. Famous football players getting shot.
2. Sarah Palin appearances.
3. Odd/Weird News.
[I didn’t include Country Music because that’s typically taken as read.]
So I don’t talk about my home state much. But I should probably make an exception here, seeing as how Tennessee is the source of the hottest meme on the Internet right now: Basil Marceaux Dotcom.
Thanks to the Web and Stephen Colbert, Basil Marceaux Dotcom is the new “David After Dentist”. Or something pretty close.
And of course everyone laughs – and that’s before they go check out his web site, which (as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bedsitter23 has already observed) looks like it was designed back when GeoCities was big. Which is part of the charm, of course. As is the fact that he lives in Soddy-Daisy, TN (which is a real town, yes).
All good fun, but it lacks the context of the bigger picture – i.e. the gubernatorial race itself. And that’s when you realize that actually, Basil Marceaux Dotcom is the best candidate running for the GOP nomination.
I’m not kidding.
Okay, maybe I am a little. But look, is he really any nuttier than GOP candidates Zach Wamp and Ron Ramsey, who are competing to see who can get the most Tea Party endorsements?
Wamp has played the secession card over Obamacare, and Ramsey has declared Islam a cult that doesn’t qualify for First Amendment freedoms. Marceux Dotcom wants to immune you from state crimes and end slaving at traffic stops so you can have a nice day. Who would you rather have leading YR state (if these three were yr only options, I mean)?
Granted, all this may be academic, since Marceaux Dotcom is polling so low that he doesn’t even rate a mention on the newspapers’ “Compare The Candidates” page.
Meanwhile, the OTHER GOP candidate – i.e. Bill “Moneybags” Haslam – is favored to win the primary this Thursday. But no one seems to know what he even stands for. His ads basically proclaim him as “Mr Experienced Nice Guy”, as if his strategy is to let the Tea Party nutjobs foam and rave and jabber themselves senseless until they cancel each other out. To his credit, it seems to be working, and it’s possible he’s saving his good stuff for the “real” race against Democrat Mike McWherter.
On the other hand, as we’ve seen again and again, experience, intelligence and proper grammar and spelling are no guarantee of good governance.
Which is why I’m endorsing Basil Marceaux Dotcom for governor of Tennessee. Because somebody ought to.
What the hell,
This is dF and I approve this message
1. Famous football players getting shot.
2. Sarah Palin appearances.
3. Odd/Weird News.
[I didn’t include Country Music because that’s typically taken as read.]
So I don’t talk about my home state much. But I should probably make an exception here, seeing as how Tennessee is the source of the hottest meme on the Internet right now: Basil Marceaux Dotcom.
Thanks to the Web and Stephen Colbert, Basil Marceaux Dotcom is the new “David After Dentist”. Or something pretty close.
And of course everyone laughs – and that’s before they go check out his web site, which (as
bedsitter23 has already observed) looks like it was designed back when GeoCities was big. Which is part of the charm, of course. As is the fact that he lives in Soddy-Daisy, TN (which is a real town, yes).All good fun, but it lacks the context of the bigger picture – i.e. the gubernatorial race itself. And that’s when you realize that actually, Basil Marceaux Dotcom is the best candidate running for the GOP nomination.
I’m not kidding.
Okay, maybe I am a little. But look, is he really any nuttier than GOP candidates Zach Wamp and Ron Ramsey, who are competing to see who can get the most Tea Party endorsements?
Wamp has played the secession card over Obamacare, and Ramsey has declared Islam a cult that doesn’t qualify for First Amendment freedoms. Marceux Dotcom wants to immune you from state crimes and end slaving at traffic stops so you can have a nice day. Who would you rather have leading YR state (if these three were yr only options, I mean)?
Granted, all this may be academic, since Marceaux Dotcom is polling so low that he doesn’t even rate a mention on the newspapers’ “Compare The Candidates” page.
Meanwhile, the OTHER GOP candidate – i.e. Bill “Moneybags” Haslam – is favored to win the primary this Thursday. But no one seems to know what he even stands for. His ads basically proclaim him as “Mr Experienced Nice Guy”, as if his strategy is to let the Tea Party nutjobs foam and rave and jabber themselves senseless until they cancel each other out. To his credit, it seems to be working, and it’s possible he’s saving his good stuff for the “real” race against Democrat Mike McWherter.
On the other hand, as we’ve seen again and again, experience, intelligence and proper grammar and spelling are no guarantee of good governance.
Which is why I’m endorsing Basil Marceaux Dotcom for governor of Tennessee. Because somebody ought to.
What the hell,
This is dF and I approve this message
