Tom DeLay: ‘Conservatives can have fun too!’

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Tom DeLay’s venture into the hard-knock world of reality television has begun. This morning, the former House majority leader began rehearsals for ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ tweeting jocularly that he hoped his dance partner wasn’t Nancy Pelosi.

During an appearance on ‘Good Morning America,’ the onetime Congressional power broker said there was one simple reason he decided to participate in the ABC dance competition: ‘I love dancing. Ya gotta love dancing if you’re from Texas.’

‘This is going to be so fun and so crazy,’ DeLay added, telling ‘GMA’s’ Chris Cuomo: ‘Conservatives can have fun too!’

Then Cuomo pressed him about the serious matter hanging over DeLay as he took on this challenge: ‘Will you go all the way to sequins?’

‘I don’t know about that,’ the longtime pol responded. ‘That’s up for negotiation.’

-- Matea Gold

Photo: David J. Phillip / Associated Press