Though Matthew McConaughey has recently decided to turn down a shot at running for Governor of Texas, you can bet he will run for office eventually. The proof? His words below.

They are gibberish. Full blown gobbledygook. However, they wrap McConaughey in the flag, seem innocuously bipartisan, and they are over the top self effacing. It’s the kind of thing a political consultant would have written for him. I should know, I was a full time political media consultant for twenty years. Still do it, on occasion.

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So his words are a tease, nothing more. Consider it his political trailer. There will be more to come when the real show hits the airwaves.

FNC: “Matthew McConaughey may have pressed pause on his political ambitions, but the actor is still contemplating entering the political arena.

McConaughey, 52, recently recalled what inspired him to consider running for governor of Texas during an interview with Fox News Digital.”

 

“Giving a wondering about, ‘Hey, what are we doing? What’s going on with us as, as a people, as a state, how we’re getting along, where have we gone awry?'” the actor said.

“What’s the role of politics in the world? Is it still serving democracy, which I think it should in America,” McConaughey continued. “Studying into two parties, seeing a loss of values, actually, because seeing people on both sides of the aisle, either side of the aisle, rather, holding on so tightly to their blue or red flag pole that their whole identities almost sometimes seems to be based on the invalidation of the other, instead of the validation of their own vision.

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“Now I know, and I think we all know that, in the long run, that’s not the way forward,” he said. “Over the past two years, I’ve been working on the answer to the question of how I can be most useful in this life going forward…Useful to myself, useful to 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,” he said. “It’s a humbling and inspiring path to ponder. It is also a path that I am choosing not to take at this moment.”

He next gig is a Super Bowl commercial for a sales training firm. “It’s not time to escape,” McConaughey says in the commercial. “It’s time to engage. It’s time to plant more trees. It’s time to build more trust. It’s time to make more space for all of us. So while the others look to the metaverse and Mars, let’s stay here and restore ours. Yeah, it’s time to blaze our trail. ‘Cause the new frontier? It ain’t rocket science. It’s right here.” Absolute gibberish. But given America’s obsession with celebrity, it just might work.