Cooter has got baggage. He lived a few doors down from some friends of ours in Decatur. He was an alcoholic, who was charged with domestic abuse. He also has a poor marital history with multiple divorces. I can't remember exactly how many. Our friends didn't think he was the best of neighbors.
"Cooter, more Conservative than Rudy"
So you are saying he is a democrat..
You are about 2/3rds right. (and it was Tucker btw, not Decatur).
I worked for one of his ex-wives who was his wife while I was under employment there so I met Ben and became pretty good friends and had several political discussions. He was fascinated about my school grant that I received from Clayton Williams (who had run and lost the TX governer race against Ma Richards because of a really stupid remark he made) and had no idea of what a philanthropist Williams was (and still is).
I wouldn't call Ben a liberal, but more of what they call here in the south a "Yellow Dog" democrat, and in reality his ideas were far more libertarian than anything else except he was sold on some of the "Great Society" views of LBJ. Still he wasn't a bad guy and really understood the concept of public service, so for that I gave him lots of credit.
He is a reformed alchoholic, and philanderer who left my boss for another woman in a pretty sordid manner. He wasn't an abuser though, at least not physically, but he wasn't a very good husband and he will admit that.
He's had some pretty serious medical issues and other things happen to him that have seriously affected his view on life I think, the last time I saw him he seemed like a whole different person, although we didn't discuss politics except a brief aside about Bush, who he said he gained a whole new respect for because of his stance on the war.
Still, you have to give him credit here, he is absolutely right in speaking out against this stupid PC crap.