Not Even Chuck Norris Can Save the GOP

[bridgit]

'Before the 2004 election, no small number of progressives were heard to say to their friends, "If George W. Bush gets re-elected, I'm moving to Canada." With but a few isolated exceptions, they weren't serious -- just expressing their exasperation that a majority of their fellow citizens could sign up for another four years of what was already a disastrous presidency. Conservatives saw the sentiment as yet more evidence of liberals' shaky loyalty to the Land of the Free.

Just a few months into Barack Obama's presidency, it's the conservatives who are talking about leaving. And not just in private conversations or on little-read blogs; a number of Republican state legislators have introduced "sovereignty resolutions" in an apparent attempt to re-enact the events leading up to the Civil War (Ed Kilgore explains here). And the state that seems to have the itchiest finger on the secession trigger is Texas, where Gov. Rick Perry has been hinting that the Lone Star State might have to go its own way (incredibly, when one poll asked whether the state should secede, Texas Republicans were evenly split). But if Perry is going to make his state an independent nation, he'll have to compete for leadership with a unique political figure: Chuck Norris.'

http://www.alternet.org/story/140038/not_even_chuck_norris_can_save_the_gop/

[Orrex]

1. kick

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[salguine]

5. But when you go, leave us Austin. (Actually I'm sure the fire-breathing secessionists

would be all to happy to leave Austin behind.)

[ZombieHorde]

3. Chuck Norris can believe its not butter. nt

[KG]

7. Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas.

[Frank Booth]

4. Never count Chuck out,

especially since he hasn't whipped out the roundhouse kick yet.

[Joe the Liberal]

6. Rick Perry sure does want to be the next Jefferson Davis.....

So then that would make Chuck Norris the next Robert E. Lee.....I guess.