Kinky For Sale, Again

Kinky Friedman has a book about to come out and is promoting a new line of cigars, so of course he's announced for Governor again.

Well, not exactly, since that would be a one-day story and Kinky, if nothing else, is a master of milking as much media out of as little substance as anyone I know. So instead, he's speculating that he might run for Governor in 2010, this time as a Democrat.

"I'm open to running," Friedman said Wednesday before cautioning that he won't settle plans until after the 2008 elections. "Had I run as a Democrat last time, I think (Gov.) Rick Perry would already be (out of office as) a lobbyist for a cigar company," he said.

Kinky memorably ran for Governor in 2006, coming in fourth of five candidates with 12.4 percent of the vote. His campaign started out slow and then flizzled out altogether, plagued by its candidate's inability to disguise that he really didn't want the job. CMT even did a TV series, Go Kinky, which intercut scenes of Kinky schmoozing with the likes of Willie Nelson and Dwight Yoakum with scenes of Kinky, visibly bored, sabotaging his campaign staff's efforts to get him to focus on the issues, man, the issues. It lasted two episodes before CMT lost interest.

At the end, Kinky's campaign devolved into a platform for him to sell an action figure of himself (right). He must have a bunch of them left in the warehouse if he's running for Governor again.