If you missed Saturday night’s college football game between the Western Michigan Broncos of the Mid America Conference (MAC) and the Michigan Wolverines of the Big Ten Conference (B1G) you missed the “second heard around the world.” Not merely willing to play for a fat paycheck by showing up in uniform in Ann Arbor’s “Big House” stadium of over 100,000 fans, the visiting Broncos outplayed the hometown Wolverines for 40+ minutes as they took a 12-7 lead to win the game, despite being a four-touchdown underdog.
Hold on a darn second (wordplay intended)- the refs penalized
the Broncos and put one second back on the clock allowing Michigan to “win”
13-12. Despite the fact that both the stadium and play booth clocks read 0:00 with
Western Michigan winning, the B1G’s explanation that they had an official
secret clock not synced with the other clocks the rest of America thought
displayed the official time. As egregious as that secret clock incident was, we
fans were assured that it never happen again.
Hold on a darn second (wordplay intended)- US Senate candidate
in Texas James Talarico seems to also to possess a secret clock, albeit a metaphorical
one. And Talarico may well use it to get his extra second against his opponent
Ken Paxton, but if Talarico is successful, the real losers will be the good
folks of Texas, not Paxton.
Talarico was interviewed by Fox News correspondent Brooke
Taylor on September 10. In that interview Talarico renounced nearly every controversial
view he has held. Among the changes:
60-Minute Stadium Clock: God is non-binary.
Extra-Second Secret Clock: I was being provocative.
60-Minute Stadium Clock: Opposed restrictions on trans
athletes.
Extra-Second Secret Clock: Now opposes biological boys playing in
girls’ sports.
60-Minute Stadium Clock: There are six biological sexes.
Extra-Second Secret Clock: There are two sexes with some genetic
abnormalities.
60-Minute Stadium Clock: Voted against Texas SB14 which
opposed trans surgeries & puberty blockers for minors.
Extra-Second Secret Clock: Now opposes trans surgeries for minors.
Most Americans, Texans included,
encourage and even expect our politicians to re-examine evidence and change their
minds as needed. But what Talarico did during that interview was not that, it
was a wholesale full frontal lobotomy.
Say what you want to about Jasmine Crockett, she would have doubled down,
stood her ground, and fired both barrels (metaphorically speaking, of course!)
to share her beliefs. Apparently, Talarico’s staff, consultants, and handlers,
and even Talarico himself, thought this was a good idea perhaps based on what
the B1G got away with in front of millions on a Labor Day weekend.
In the interview, Talarico showed himself to be a mere corrupt politician. Talarico is not corrupt in the same manner as he charges his opponent, Talarico has a corruption in his soul- a corruption in the same way as the end justifies the means. The people of Texas deserve a candidate for the US Senate of a major party who is proud of his beliefs, who will double down and stand his ground, and will not change his mind on the core tenets of his belief system as the polls change in a tight race.
Football is a game. Elections are not. And it is vital in our constitutional republic we citizens can have trust in trustworthy candidates. A final word- I will be rooting for my Sooners to wallop those pesky Wolverines this Saturday in Ann Arbor!
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