Sarah Palin just messed with Texas

Uh, oh ...

From over at jmooneyham.com comes this little tidbit:

Sarah Palin just messed with Texas

I've lived among Texans twice: for some months in the 1970s, and then again for several months in 2001.

Many Texans don't think of their state the same way we other Americans may think of our own. This is reflected in the exclamation "Don't mess with Texas!", as well as other items.

Although McCain's kept Sarah Palin on the tightest leash of any VP candidate in history for what are now obvious reasons (like the first ABC and CBS interviews), no containment measure can be perfect.

And so Sarah Palin came out and called Texas a "little sister state" to Alaska.

OOPS!

Although the Texas newspaper(s) which initially reported this seemed to have hastily scrubbed it from their web sites almost immediately afterwards, it was too late: the words were already out of her mouth and in the media ether.

I suspect a panicked McCain campaign immediately launched a huge effort to collect and destroy any videos which might exist of Palin mouthing the words, as well.

But as of Saturday morning, there were already about a quarter million result hits on Google for the quote.

It is good to be visiting here in Alaska's little sister state Texas - Google Search (already 242,000 results as of 10-4-08)

So what? you might ask. It doesn't sound like anything special to me.

Well, you're probably not a Texan, either.

Is it possible Palin's comment will turn deep-red Texas blue in the election? Well, Texas (like my native Tennesee) can usually be taken for granted by Republicans in elections.

But as I said before, Texans are a different breed from other state natives, in how they view their own state. So it'd be a very Texan thing to do, to shock the hell out of the GOP, and vote for Obama.

Especially after being told their state was little sister to Alaska.

Texas is nobody's little sister. Or little brother. Or little, PERIOD.

And come election day, they might just decide to show McCain-Palin how big Texas really is.

*****

... She's gone and done it now!