What they really think of Texans...
Frances Morey
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Sun Feb 15 14:02:05 2004
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Here's a snippit from the Village Voice about our Georgie B's tour of duty in Alabama...
Dubya in 'Bama
By James Ridgeway
The Village Voice
Thursday 11 February 2004 'God's Gift to Women'
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."
Blount was a Bush family friend, a successful contractor who had served as Nixon's postmaster general (best remembered for firing 33,000 employees), and a Nixon emissary to George Wallace. Wallace was shot in 1972 and subsequently dropped his independent campaign for the presidency, which must have taken a load off Nixon's mind. Watergate happened that year, and the GOP's takeover of the South—the party's "Southern strategy" featured a coded emphasis on race and an appeal to young white men—was just beginning. Old man Bush, Nixon's UN ambassador in 1972 and chair of the Republican National Committee in 1973, and Postmaster Blount used to go over to the White House to play tennis.
Junior, though, was no such heavy hitter. "He was an attractive person, kind of a 'frat boy,' " Blount's son Tom, an architect, recalled, according to Wilson's article, "George W. Bush's Lost Year in 1972 Alabama." "I didn't like him."
According to Wilson, Tom Blount "remembers thinking to himself" the following: "This guy thinks he is such a cuntsman, God's gift to women. He was all duded up in his cowboy boots. It was sort of annoying seeing all these people who thought they were hot shit just because they were from Texas."... [color emphasis added]
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<DIV>Here's a snippit from the Village Voice about our Georgie B's tour of duty in Alabama...<BR><BR> <B>Dubya in 'Bama</B><BR> By James Ridgeway<BR> The Village Voice </DIV>
<P> Thursday 11 February 2004
<BLOCKQUOTE><B>'God's Gift to Women'</B></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> 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.
<P> 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).
<P> 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."
<P> Blount was a Bush family friend, a successful contractor who had served as Nixon's postmaster general (best remembered for firing 33,000 employees), and a Nixon emissary to George Wallace. Wallace was shot in 1972 and subsequently dropped his independent campaign for the presidency, which must have taken a load off Nixon's mind. Watergate happened that year, and the GOP's takeover of the South—the party's "Southern strategy" featured a coded emphasis on race and an appeal to young white men—was just beginning. Old man Bush, Nixon's UN ambassador in 1972 and chair of the Republican National Committee in 1973, and Postmaster Blount used to go over to the White House to play tennis.
<P> Junior, though, was no such heavy hitter. "He was an attractive person, kind of a 'frat boy,' " Blount's son Tom, an architect, recalled, according to Wilson's article, "George W. Bush's Lost Year in 1972 Alabama." "I didn't like him."
<P> According to Wilson, Tom Blount "remembers thinking to himself" the following: "This guy thinks he is such a cuntsman, God's gift to women. He was all duded up in his cowboy boots. It was sort of annoying seeing all these <FONT color=#ff0000>people <FONT color=#0000ff>who</FONT> <FONT color=#ff7f00>thought</FONT> <FONT color=#bf00bf>they</FONT> were <FONT color=#4040ff>hot</FONT> shit <FONT color=#ff7f00>just</FONT> <FONT color=#60bf00>because</FONT> <FONT color=#ff00ff>they</FONT> were <FONT color=#00bf60>from</FONT> </FONT><FONT color=#ff7f00>Texas</FONT>."<STRONG>...</STRONG><EM> [color emphasis added]</EM></P>
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