I wasn’t surprised that at the top of the list 3 million Texans are collecting food stamps, but many of them still vote Republican nonetheless (unless vote fraud there is more widespread than I thought, which is entirely possible). The GOP, starting with Junior, has sold the state to the wealthy 10 percent, leaving few crumbs behind for the majority. Perry continues the practice — I can only hope Texans wake up in 2010, but I also won’t be surprised if they re-elect Republicans and keep blaming ‘dirty lib’ruls’ for their pain and misery. It is a state stuffed with proud Craig T. Nelson’s: “I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Did anybody help me out? No! No!”

(Read it here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522939,00.html )

As long as people like the ‘Coach’ appear on Glenn Beck and act as if things like food stamps and welfare aren’t liberal government programs funded by the taxpayers, then Texans will continue to vote for Republicans and loathe liberals until they end up sleeping in the street — and maybe even then, too.

As native-born Texans Molly Ivins and Jim Hightower have written, there are a whole passel of really dumb white people in the Lone Star State and, unfortunately, the phenomenon is not confined there.