VeJo the Ho

Oh please oh please oh please. Vernon “VeJo” Jones has publicly dropped the clue that he's considering a run for governor of Georgia. There are few reasons why reading those words brought glee into my teeny, tiny heart. First, I no longer reside in Georgia so I'll be rolling in blooming fields of Schadenfreude. (Visualize the closing credits of Little House on the Prairie and you'll have the correct image of my mental state.) Second, you just don't get big, fat, juicy comedy pitches thrown right into the strike zone every day.

Vernon's real tragedy, his real lament in life, is that he didn't have a big enough kingdom to loot. He desperately wants to level up to where the big money and prizes reside. And before you reject the idea out of hand remember that Marion Berry was re-elected after being caught on video smoking crack. Cynthia McKinney got re-elected after acting like a crack head. With these stars to steer by, nothing is out of reach for VeJo. For those residing outside Dekalb County let me give you a visual of what life in Georgia would be like under VeJo: Imagine post-Katrina New Orleans only without the hurricane. Georgia under the current governorship of the feed salesman moves only as a result of inertia, not competence. VeJo would bring levels of graft and entropy difficult to comprehend. By reading the comments section of the AJC article this apparently isn't lost on potential voters.

So here's the official Ares and Athena prediction for VeJo: He'll fall flat in his run for governor. He'll bide his time and make a shot at the 4^th U.S. Congressional district. Given the 4th's voting record he's got a pretty good chance. He will not, however, fade from political life. He's too incompetent to hold an actual job and his ego will tolerate nothing less than a personal sequel. This will be fun to watch, from a distance.

Ares