Oh my Good Lloyd...

Well, just when you think the Daily Journal's Jamie Franks Jr Cheerleaders are about to go on hiatus they prove you wrong. This morning's paper advises our intrepid representative to not align himself so closely with John Arthur Eaves, he of the trial lawyer, Jehovah-obsessed, trophy wife-taking gubernatorial school of thought as it might hurt him in the election. Please. Stop. The. Inanity. This farce that's going on in the Franks Cheerleading Section-sorry, the offices of the Daily Journal-has got to end. Let's not pretend that the man is some kind of consensus builder, Lloyd. If you'd ever talk to people who don't fund him-like certain representatives from the Meridian and Picayune areas that I've met, for example-you'd find out that the man is despised by lots and lots of people he's worked with. He's vile and coarse and rude when a camera's not on him. And this whole thing about Haley Barbour having a pet for LG...did we forget there's a whole nother chamber to the state legislature? Every article bashes Amy Tuck for being "too close to Barbour," but I've yet to see one that says that Tim Ford was too close to Musgrove, or that maybe Billy McCoy and Jamie Franks-once described as 'McCoy's protege' in print-running both houses of the legislative branch would be a bad idea. Third, they don't have a problem with the governor being too powerful. They have a problem with a governor they don't control being too powerful. Four years ago they could tell Musgrove when to sit, speak and fetch. They don't have that anymore and it's grating at them. I guess they long for the days of wasting $14 million on a special election over what flag we'll be flying. Should Franks win, I guess we'll have a referendum on what uniforms Ole Miss and State will be wearing for home games. Lastly, stop throwing 'populist' around. They're not populists. Populists are summed up best by the quote from William Jennings Bryan: "The people of Nebraska are for a silver standard, so I am for a silver standard. I will look up the arguments later." The bunch that Lloyd and his office mates love to slap that label on aren't populists, because they're more inclined to tell people what to do than take orders from them. Seriously, can you imagine Bryan, after reading that quote, telling people what lifestyle decisions to make? Suing private businesses because people made the mistake of buying their product when they've been told their entire lives its bad for them? Eliminating the choice of what section to sit in the restaurants? Is there a constituency for the tax swap scheme other than the offices that you guys sit in every day? Is there one for never purging the voter rolls? Good Lord, help me make it through ten more weeks of this. It's going to be hard. Oh, yeah, Lloyd, you might also want to take a drive to Mooreville sometime to see what his neighbors think of him. I promise, you'll come away with a revelation. Eaves cost himself the Mooreville box when he appeared there with Franks.