Dubya in 'Bama

[billbuckhead]

Dubya in 'Bama
by James Ridgeway


WASHINGTON, D.C.—In Alabama, where George W. Bush supposedly was slaving away on Winton "Red" Blount's 1972 U.S. Senate campaign in lieu of National Guard duty, he is remembered by a Blount son as a smartass "cuntsman" from Texas.

Bush Junior, as he was then called, used to come into Blount's campaign office in Montgomery, prop his feet up on a desk, and blab on about how much he'd drunk the night before, according to a detailed article by New Orleans freelance journalist Glynn Wilson on his Progressive Southerner blog (southerner.net/blog/awolbush.html).

Blount's Belles, a group of young Republican women and Montgomery debutantes who were helping out on the campaign, would fall into a swoon at the sight of young George. "We thought he was to die for," said one. But the Blue Haired Platoon, a group of older women campaigning for Blount, referred to Junior as "the Texas soufflé" because he was "all puffed up and full of hot air."

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<http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0406/mondo1.php>

IMHO, this sounds believable.

[Exultant Democracy]

1. Bush headed up a smear campaign claiming that

the opponent was soft on race.

edit: How do these hate mongers slip into power when their own past is so evident.

[Terwilliger]

2. now THIS is what we should be talking about

[seemslikeadream]

4. I agree

When it came to political trickery, Bush Junior got in on the ground floor, receiving tutelage from the masters of the art, which reached its zenith in the person of Lee Atwater.


The U.S. government spent 1 million dollars training jr to be a fighter pilot and all we got was a "cuntsman"

[Catherine Vincent]

6. I agree!

[nostamj]

3. "Dubya in 'Bama" - evidence surfaces!

for the rest of the TOONs, click link in sig

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. I lived in Alabama then

The campaign against Sen. Sparkman was ineffective and ugly.

[Terwilliger]

7. hmmm...Blount with dirty politics...AWOL worked for Blount...

yep, it follows ;-)

[kath]

8. Here's a link to the article in the Progressive Southerner blog that

the Village Voice article is based on:

http://www.southerner.net/blog/awolbush.html

TONS of good stuff in here!

[anarchy1999]

9. Bring em on!

n/t
Horray! Finally the truth coming out of Alabama. We need more.