The election season is upon us. The two most interesting races in Oklahoma this fall are for governor and U.S. Senate. A former Congressman and football star named Steve Largent is the Repub candidate for Governor. The Demos in a runoff are Vince Orza, pasta magnate, and Brad Henry, a longtime politician no one seems to know much about yet. There's a wildcard independent named Gary Richardson who is really a Repub but decided he didn't want to run against a football star so decided to use his millions gained as a lawyer to buy his way into the Governor's mansion. The Demos and Repubs are trying to figure out who Richardson will cost votes. Talk on the street is that country Richardson will cost quarterback Largent the Governorship. Richardson is a Repub in independent clothes. His knee-jerk populism appeals to the uneducated boobs which, according to my scientific polls, constitute 65% of registered Repubs and 72% of registered Demos in Oklahoma. Independents in the Sooner State complain that Richardson is giving them a bad name and have encouraged him to leave the non-party.

The real fight will be between Congressman Jim "Attila the Hun" Inhofe (Repub) and former Governor David Walters (Demo). Jim and David are famous for down and dirty campaigns so this one should be a rumble on the grasslands. Inhofe has his good points but who doesn't. He's bought and paid for by the gun nuts and the cockfighters. Jim is as extreme a far-right dude as they come. Walters, a moderate, had his troubles with a campaign law infraction when he was Governor in the early 90s. He pleaded gulity. Despite that I would take him over Inhofe any day. Inhofe is guilty of embarrassing Oklahomans with his nutty extremism. I mean what kind of goober defends cockfighters?