The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported that [Mississippi Senator and Republican primary candidate for re-election Thad] Cochran was addressing a group of donors and supporters at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg.Yes, I bet they chuckled. We've all been there, haven't we?
The senator explained his connection to the area, saying that his grandparents lived their whole lives in the area.
“I grew up coming down here for Christmas,” he said. “My father’s family was here. My mother’s family was from rural Hinds County in Utica.”
“It was fun, it was an adventure to be out there in the country and to see what goes on,” he said of his boyhood visits to Hattiesburg. “Picking up pecans, from that to all kinds of indecent things with animals.”
The audience chuckled.
Well actually, no, Senator, most of us
haven't. No. Not really. Still, give the senior senator from
Mississippi a chance to revise and extend his remarks:
“And I know some of you know what that is,” Cochran said.
So, perhaps we finally have the answer
to p3's most
awkward questions.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to
go take a shower and burn my clothes.
2 comments:
Cochran here clarifies something that has badly confused us liberals for a long time. When the conservatives say gay marriage will destroy traditional marriage, they don't mean our simple kind of straight marriage that isn't that different from the gay kind as currently practiced; they mean the kind found in some rural counties where the husband freely shags the sheep, gambols with the goats, and occasionally diddles the dog. It's the animals themselves that fear the city boys will take their farmer's love away.
Okay. Now I've got something to think about.
BTW, Digby has a different take: She doesn't see this as the love of a good man for his horse, but rather one of the so-called Macdonald triad red-flags of sociopathy.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/picking-pecans-and-torturing-animals.html
I'm not sure which I would find less discomforting.
("Husband." Heh.)
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