Crazy Carole Wants To Add Another Name?

Here is a Texas election twist that should be the only evidence anyone needs that Carole [YOUR NAME HERE] Strayhorn (I'll just call her Carole 4 names 3 parties or c4n3p for short) has gone 'round bend. As the Houston Chronicle reports:

Independent Carole Keeton Strayhorn won political office under her two previous married names, but in this year's race for governor, voters apparently are saying: Strayhorn who?

Strayhorn told supporters in an e-mail this week that is why she wants to solve her name identification problem by appearing on the November ballot as "Grandma" Strayhorn. She has campaigned as "One Tough Grandma" since 1998.

Born Carole Keeton, she won the Austin mayor's office as Carole McClellan. She won statewide elections for railroad commissioner and state comptroller as Carole Keeton Rylander.

But she has remarried since her last election in 1992, exchanging vows with Eddie Strayhorn and picking up a new last name in the process.

"The name change from Rylander to Strayhorn has not completely sunk in with voters (She has never run as Strayhorn)," said the fundraising e-mail....

The e-mail says that is why she will appear on the November ballot as Carole Keeton "Grandma" Strayhorn.

And that is how she filled out her application for a spot on the ballot, said Scott Haywood, spokesman for the Texas Secretary of State's Office.

I only wish this was a joke.