McConaughey No Machiavelli Or Biden in Texas Race

Actor Matthew McConaughey says he won’t run for Texas governor after teasing us for months because “politics aren’t his embassy” while “servant leadership” is ... If only flip flopping Joe Biden had been so honest in assessing his abilities rather than teasing with better solutions, then, sticking us with endless crises …

But, let’s do give “The Lincoln Lawyer” and “Dazed & Confused” star credit. He had actually led the incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott & Beto O’Rourke in the opinion polls. Still, finding the right niche in the service of humanity proved to be the deal-breaker. “Over the past two years,” he said on Twitter, “I’ve been working on the answer to the question how I can be most useful in this life going forward … to myself, my family and to the most amount of people … As a simple kid born in the little town of Uvalde, Texas, it never occurred to me that I would one day be considered for political leadership … It’s a humbling and inspiring path to ponder. It is also a path that I am choosing not to take at this moment.”

Clear as the mud a method actor might wallow in? Fox ponderously quoted him pondering still more: “Look, it’s going to be in some capacity … I just, I’m more a folksy and philosopher-poet statesman than I am a per se, definitive politician. So I go, well that’s a reason not to, but then I go, no, that’s exactly why you should. Because politics needs redefinition, but I’m measuring ‘what is my category?’ What’s my embassy?” Well, if this were Lorenzo the Magnificent talking to Machiavelli who was writing his iconic political masterpiece The Prince eventually based on that Renaissance genius, a bewildered Machi might just have chosen another “model” leader who sounds like our present-day No. 46 …

Davd Soul