"He was born with a silver foot in his mouth!" - Ann Richards on Bush Sr.

[WilliamPitt]

From the 1988 Democratic convention.

Best brick I've ever heard dropped in my lifetime of American politics.

Rest in peace, ma'am. You did real, real good.

[Erika]

1. and it ain't over until the fat lady (Henry Hyde) sings

She was a true borne Texan.

[napi21]

2. God bless Ann. I lived in TX when she was Gov.

There are very few better Dems than Ann! I only wish there were someone younger to take her place, but there's not!

We'll never forget you Ann!

[TomInTib]

5. The first state-wide election where the exit pollls were 'wrong'

extrapolate that, napi21...

[napi21]

11. I don't have to, I very well remember!

I also rememberit was the test State for Shrub to destroy the public school system!

[flpoljunkie]

12. And this lie, from Wayne Slater, Dallas Morning News last night on CNN...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/13/acd.02.html

SLATER: I don't think they did. Of course, but then again she's the kind of woman politician who -- the only kind I think, who could really have the kind of success she did at the time. That is to say, she could take men on right straightforward. She was funny and she was direct and she could be tough.

But I have to say, in the early days, I remember when she was state treasurer and preparing to run for governor, I remember talking to her and other people would talk to her in ways that said can you raise the money? Can you actually do this? If there was a doubt, I guess. And there was a, I suspect, a kind of sexist aspect of the way we were thinking that could she actually do this? Now that seems crazy in retrospect. Obviously, she could do it. Obviously, she could win.

And I remember that she was the governor was challenged by George Bush. And in this campaign, I remember talking to George Bush and talking to his Political Adviser Karl Rove, they gave her enormous respect. Bush, himself, in the summer of 1994 did not think he was going to win against Ann Richards. He believed, in fact his mother, Barbara Bush said, how can you beat her? She's so popular. She's so good. And yet, they directed a campaign that was very, very respectful in which they tried not to attack her directly, but tried to offer a different kind of campaign that ultimately was successful, because she was such a powerful and forceful and popular figure in the state.

COOPER: Wayne, stay with us.

(Would that "very, very respectful" and "different kind of campaign" be under the radar telephone calls besmirching Richards as a lesbian? This is what Rove does--win at any cost. He and his minions are without integrity.)

[Elidor]

3. She also said...

He was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.

About Jr.

[sendero]

9. I'm pretty sure..

... it was Jim Hightower who said that.

My favorite Ann quote is "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and she did it backwards and on high heels".

Beautiful!

[Wonk]

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[babylonsister]

4. Ann Richards was a rich character with a brain like a steel trap. She

got robbed in TX, I fear, and guess who did it?

[Horse with no Name]

7. 2 words--8 letters

After all, Texas was the training ground for bigger and better thefts.

[jus_the_facts]

6. May she rest in peace.....

:loveya: :cry:

[H2O Man]

8. Ann Richards was a wonderful lady.

A good friend used to work with her in Texas. While Ann Ricards was governor, my friend ran the state's youth services. She had worked for NYC Mayor Dinkins in the same role before that. My friend had nothing but praise for Governor Richards.

[VelmaD]

10. She was a funny funny lady

And it wasn't all scripted either. I got to meet her in more informal settings several times and she was a pistol. Just lit up any room she was in and got everybody laughing.

It's hard to believe she's gone. :(

[Midlodemocrat]

13. "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards

and in high heels"

From the same speech. Positively brilliant.

RIP, Ann.

[WilliamPitt]

14. .

[DinahMoeHum]

15. Methinks the Dixie Chicks are picking up where Ann has left off. . .

Texas women, all 3 of them, and like Richards, don't take shit from anybody.

Three donkey-kick cheers for all of them.

:kick::kick::kick: