Mullet Web site rebuts GOP joke with style

The Kentucky Post ^ | August 16, 2003 | Courtney Kinney

[Republican Wildcat]

Greg Spurlock has an interesting take on the old saying "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade."

When life handed Spurlock a wise-cracking Republican spoofing on his short-in-the-front, long-in-the-back haircut at the Fancy Farm picnic, he made a Web site.

And a clever, insightful one at that.

The site, www.mulletsforchandler.com, is Spurlock's answer to the young Ernie Fletcher supporter who waved a "Mullets for Chandler" sign above Spurlock's head during the political speeches at the Western Kentucky picnic two weeks ago. Spurlock is a staunch Democrat and a supporter of Fletcher's Democratic opponent in the governor's race, Ben Chandler. He also sports the mullet haircut, which some people describe as "business in the front, party in the back."

A funny guy, Spurlock shows he has a sharp wit that can party with the best of them. But he also proves that up-front, he's all business.

The Web site includes plenty of self-deprecating humor. It also lays out Spurlock's biting commentary against Republicans, who he derides as exclusive blue-bloods out of touch with real folk.

"My name is Greg, and I have a mullet," starts a personal message from Spurlock on the homepage of mulletsforchandler.com. "I may not be part of a country club, drive a Jaguar or drink martinis, but I vote. And when the lever is drawn in Kentucky on November 4 in the governor's race, it will be for Ben Chandler."

The home page bears the banner "Mullets for Chandler" and the motto "Hair should flow like the flag." Spurlock claims Chandler's only flaw is the length -- or lack thereof -- of his hair. He's posted mullet jokes, mullet notes and a mullet haiku.

But Spurlock also lets the world know there's a brain under that mullet of his. He shares his take on what are the most important issues in the state: bringing jobs back to the state, maintaining funding for education, providing seniors with affordable prescription drugs and sustaining the economy.

On a personal note, Spurlock lauds the federal program Head Start, which provides free or affordable pre-school education for underprivileged children. Head Start, he said, helped his 9-year-old son succeed in school and could do the same for other kids.

"Any program cuts are likely to hurt the disabled children and thus hurt the kids that need it the most," he writes. "I will not walk away and ignore how our educational system has helped my son.''

Spurlock thinks Chandler is the candidate who will make education better for Kentucky. Republicans, he says, aren't interested in the mullet vote.

Spurlock couldn't be reached for an interview to explain exactly why he established the Web site. But he makes it quite clear in the section titled "Why this site."

"It seems that Republicans are happy to have the Mullet vote as long as the curtain is drawn and they don't have to see you. They will never turn down a donation, but worry little about you showing up at $500-a-plate fund-raisers," he writes. "On the contrary, Democrats see diverse people as a vital part of the fabric that makes our country so great. As the party of real family values, it is only Democrats that value the place of workers and citizens in our communities.''

Chandler's campaign manager said he's seen the Web site and finds it funny. "We are all about fun," said Mark Nickolas. "Coming out of the primary, Ben was determined to have some fun in the general as we talk about these very important issues, and we have tried to do that."

Whether that fun will extend to Chandler growing his own mullet, as Spurlock is championing, that's another story, Nickolas said.

"In this field, you never say 'never,'" he said. "But I'm not sure that Jennifer Chandler (Ben's wife) would be a strong supporter."

[Republican Wildcat]

I saw this guy in person at Fancy Farm, as well as the exchange mentioned in this article. He looked and acted like a buffoon, coming over into the GOP side of the event waving his Chandler sign and acting like he was hot stuff.

I suppose his argument is that people who can't afford a $500 Republican fundraiser could somehow afford a $500 Democrat fundraiser. What a goof.

[Zipporah]

Spurlock thinks Chandler is the candidate who will make education better for Kentucky..

Spurlock is an idiot if he truly believes this.. KERA was the brainchild (so to speak) of the Demoncrats.. and it has DESTROYED education in Kentucky. More of the same with Chandler.

[billhilly]

Growing up in Western Kentucky I and my family were definitely not Blue Blood. The haircuts described in the article were worn by the girls, and then, as well as now, the democratic party pretended to champion the little "man." They did so for the same reasons. To get the votes any way they could.

One problem, and a very big one at that, has intruded on the political scene since the forties and fifties of my youth. In addition to the little "man" of the past, the democrats of today have to pretend to be for lesbians, gay men, athiests, criminals, illegal aliens, marxist university professors and a long line of liars called spin doctors. "Misfits are us" should be written over their national headquarters building in Washington. They and their brethren, (and sisteren) in the information business browbeat us into accepting their Alice in Wonderland views, with some degree of success; witness homosexual Bishops, gay boy scout leaders, disgraced former members of congress on the public dole, transparent extortion practiced openly by favored minorities, same sex marriages and pervasive anti-religious bigotry, (the only form of bigotry currently encouraged) persecution and prosecution of political enemies and the occasional scare tactics designed to cause panic in the public, are but a few of their survival tactics.

The patchwork quilt that has become the democratic party was not created out of love of man, but of necessity. The dinosaur that the democrats evolved into battles extinction without shame or logic, because what they stand for, or more correctly, what they fail to stand for has no relationship to their WWII past. It has everything to do with their clinging to the levers of power until the moment the patch in the quilt that abandons them first causes them to fall.

[wysiwyg]

Greg Spurlock

[pepperhead]

Yeah KERA is doing a great job in Kentucky.;) That is why high school graduates have to take reading classes at college. Spurlock is a idiot.

[Morgan's Raider]

He shares his take on what are the most important issues in the state: bringing jobs back to the state, maintaining funding for education, providing seniors with affordable prescription drugs and sustaining the economy.

It's my understanding that democRATS have controlled Kentucky since Napoleon was a corporal. Why haven't their beloved democRATS already fixed the problems?

[Old Sarge]

Fellow Kentuckian, here, BH. Very insightful job.

Oh, for new blood in Frankfort, before there's blood on the streets in Kentucky.

[Republican Wildcat]

What is he doing in that picture? Why is he lifting the front part of the shirt up?

[Fintan]

 

And this is what you get for your $500 at that Democratic fundraiser...

 

[Republican Wildcat]

LOL

[wysiwyg]

I think that's a reflection off the top of a car.

[cmsgop]

You Got Any Beer ?????

[wysiwyg]

HOLY MOLEY, that is one scary picture!

[CFC__VRWC]

The haircuts described in the article were worn by the girls, and then, as well as now, the democratic party pretended to champion the little "man."

Around here, mullets are worn by dirty beer-bellied scumbags who wouldn't know an honest day's work if it kicked them in the ass, and have to belt their wives around to feel like real men. The perfect haircut for a Democrat.

[Republican Wildcat]

Hmm...perhaps you are right about it being a reflection (on something) since on another look it has the fence making an appearance. It's a bit weird to be have one's picture taken with something that close up to you...but then again, it's weird to make a website like that in the first place.

[TontoKowalski]

What is he doing in that picture? Why is he lifting the front part of the shirt up?

Peeing in a sink.

[CommerceComet]

I suspect that the only persons who would find the website funny are those people who would actually wear a mullet. But I guess the Joe Dirts of this world need a laugh too.

[Just another Joe]

I've worn a mullet. Looked good on me!
I wasn't a demoncRAT, a scumbag, have never hit my wife, and was working about 16 hours a day at the time.
I did swill a little beer once in a while but not often.

I realize that you weren't talking about me personally but this reminder is just to say you can't judge a book by it's cover.

[Republican Wildcat]

Looked good on me!

Sure it did. :-)

[Just another Joe]

I got more women with the mullet than without.
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