The Watchdog: 11 thoughts I had while watching Gov. Greg Abbott when he visited my neighborhood | DaveLieber
Gov. Greg Abbott addresses an audience hosted by the Keller Republican Club on Jan.18, 2022. Gov. Greg Abbott spoke this week at a church a mile from my house. Even though I’ve writtenof him in the past year, I went to listen to him out of respect for the Texas governor and for his office. I even wore a tie.
The last time I was in that church building was 25 years ago when it was a grocery store. I went in to buy a pregnancy test for my wife, Karen. The results of that test, our son Austin, now 24, came with me this week to hear the governor. This wasn’t his first political rally. I brought Austin to hear Gov. George W. Bush when my boy was 3.In his stump speech he bragged that “Texas has a larger economy than countries like Australia and Russia.
Not only did he not address the plague, he appeared to be pretending that in COVID-19′s early days he didn’t put mask mandates on us and limit capacity on all businesses and facilities. But he did do that, angering his political base, which rebelled. In his speech he said, “While other economies were closing down, Texas was opening up.
“But we’ve got golden retrievers – one of which is golden, the other of which retrieves. And the one that retrieves likes the sound of a gun. She is the one that is more the true bird dog. But one thing that you and I both know: The reason why you have a right to buy a gun is for something far more than hunting.” With that he smoothly segued into a strong defense of the Second Amendment. Pretty slick.
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