It's never too late, or often, to beat a dead horse – or losing politicos – so let's get right to it!
For those of you who might remember Tuesday, it was a very exciting election night. In a cliffhanger Republican gubernatorial contest, Light Gov Todd Lamb, endorsed by Donald Trump Jr, most of the oil industry, many legislators, but not Governor Mary Fallin, finished third. With her basement dwelling approval ratings, had Queen Mary nurtured her Little Lamb he probably would have dropped to sixth.
Former OKC Mayor Mick 'Tune In At Ten' Cornett and Tulsa Gateway Mortgage mogul Kevin 'Stiff' Stitt, father of six, finished 1-2. This sets up a classic Turnpike Battle of Who-Can-Attract-The-Most-Old-White-Rural Lamb Voters. Majority of the dudes will go for sports nut Cornett, the country gals flip their wigs over Stiff Stitt because he is so pretty, and productive. You know. Generates a lot of mortgages.
Statewide down ballot races will mostly to be settled in the August runoff when only paid consultants, close relatives of the candidates themselves and fervent backers of SQ 788 show up again to vote – the latter group forgetting it passed in June.
Speaking of that green goddess, which received landslide level support in the primary, just what does it say about our state, the buckle of the bible belt, home to more churches than chiggers, where The Oklahoma Standard is a casino on every corner? It says we're a little bit nutty, a little bit slutty and a whole bunch hypocritical.