One Tough Son of A …..
May 30, 2008 / 5:09 pm • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierThe last election cycle here in Texas included incessant “one tough grandma” advertisements by Carol Keyton Strayhorn. She was going to “clean up Texas” and “take on the insiders”. Her voice was so grating and her message so superficially disingenuous that I thought to myself that woman is not getting my vote no matter what. From the things I read and from the the things she said, Strayhorn just seemed to be a troublemaker. She seemed to be working to craft a “character”. And in fact, she did run for Governor based on her “one tough grandma” persona.
I don’t know Texas political history, I’ve only been here 11 years, but it turns out that the old adage “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” is true. Scott McClellan is Strayhorn’s son. I guess disloyalty and opportunism is a family trait.
Glenn Reynolds quotes Mark Twain regarding McClellan, “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.” I’m guessing the problem is even worse when the man sees himself as pleasantly plump.
