Gay Baiting Voters Deep In the Heart of Texas

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Campaigns and elections are all about choices. This woman, or that woman. This party's candidate, or that party's candidate. This career politician, or that maverick political upstart.

But Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is in the race for his life to hold onto the state's top office, has a different choice he'd like to present to voters. Since Gov. Perry is a career politician, having served as Governor of the state for more than a decade and in statewide politics for ten years before that, it's hard for him to argue that he's a political upstart. So what's a candidate left to do?

Gay bait some voters big time.

Gov. Perry was speaking at a barbecue in Temple, Texas, and he asked those in the crowd to make a decision. "Would you rather live in a state like this, or in a state where a man can marry a man?"

No word on whether he took an empty beer can and crushed it on his forehead afterwards.

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The conventional meme about election season 2010 is that social issues are on the backburner and that this is an election that will be steeped in bread and butter economic issues. While there's a convincing argument to be made there, Gov. Rick Perry has me thinking "hogwash" today.

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