Douchebag for Congress!

He said that he crossed the Rio Grande in an elephant? What, this is a Trojan Elephant?

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/15739567.htm

Dallas Forth Worth Star-Telegraph

But any Texan knows that we can go down and fish or wade freely from parks and private ranches along the Rio Grande, with or without an elephant.

We want most of the river kept that way, although a few crossings could use better Border Patrol roads or a mile or two of fence.

A few miles from the border, though, somebody always stops you and asks who you are, your citizenship status and other pertinent questions.

Such as, "Where did you get the elephant?"

That's what happened the moment Plunkett and his trailer hit the Border Patrol checkpoint, five miles from the ranch. If Bhakta wanted to prove how easy it is to sneak an elephant into the country, he wound up proving that the Border Patrol is on the job.

"It was amazing to me how many officers showed up when we hit the checkpoint," Plunkett said. "They had two guys, then four guys, then 50 guys in a matter of minutes. They gave us a thorough workover. I came away very impressed with the Border Patrol."

That was good news to Roy Cervantes, spokesman for the patrol's Valley headquarters in Edinburg. Officers there catch about 300 border crossers a day, half not from Mexico.

"It's apparent to me that [Bhakta] has no idea what we do down here on the southern border," Cervantes said. "We have always allowed ranchers to use the river for livestock and recreation. We don't normally go out and stop someone like that. We use sensors and cameras to watch the crossings where smugglers bring in human cargo or drugs. ... Officers stopped the truck at a checkpoint within minutes. Our enforcement worked."

Neither Bhakta nor Schwartz returned phone calls Wednesday.

The setting for the campaign commercial was a historic Texas ranch owned since 1876 by the Lerma family. Bobby Lerma, a Brownsville lawyer, is a Republican.

"They told me this guy wanted to come out and shoot a commercial," Lerma said. "I figured it was a good way for him to learn something about the border. I live 20 yards from the water. I think the border's pretty secure. I want all these people who want a big fence to tell me: Where do you want the fence? Right by my house? Where do I water my cattle?"

Mixed feelings. want to downvote the idiots, but want to upvote after seeing joedirt's comment, to "tell the people" about the stupidity and lies...

If you want to illustrate absurdity by being absurd, there you have it.

Elephants can stampede across the boarder and the band plays on. It sends a pretty symbolic message.

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