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BolivarianHero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:16 PM
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It's 1994 and George W. Bush narrowly upsets Ann Richards in the TX gubernatorial election...
What would America had been like if Cheaty McNosepicker and the Chrisliban had not stolen that election?
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:18 PM
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1. what's done is done
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kimmerspixelated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:20 PM
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2. What a great lady! May she rest in peace.
There was no reason W shoulda won! Everyone loved Ann! I call a rigged election!
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Hoopla Phil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:24 PM
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10. See post 9
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kimmerspixelated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:20 PM
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3. What a great lady! May she rest in peace.
There was no reason W shoulda won! Everyone loved Ann! I call a rigged election!
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:20 PM
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4. We'd have gotten Jebbie
and he might have been worse.

He signed the PNAC mission statement. Stupid never did.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:25 PM
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5. It was all about concealed carry. That's why she lost. nt
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Hoopla Phil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:25 PM
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11. 100% Correct. She vetoed both the legislature AND a referendum on that issue
The people of Texas were pissed.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 06:29 PM
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17. I dunno


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Richards

Film Bush's Brain: Ann Richards was a topic in the film Bush's Brain (by Joseph Mealey and Michael Shoob), in a long segment regarding her defeat in the 1994 election for Texas Governor. The film presents the case that the defeat of Richards involved a whispering campaign that the governor (mother of four children) was a lesbian because she had allegedly hired many gays and lesbians to work on her re-election campaign.
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sharesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:27 PM
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6. Texans messed up BAD with that one. What would Ann say about Kay Bailey Hutchison?
What would Ann say about Rick Perry for that matter?

What would Molly Ivins say?
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Hoopla Phil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:26 PM
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12. Ann messed up BAD when she went against the will of the people of Texas.
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sharesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 06:23 PM
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14. Leadership has its risks. But the scourge which Texans inflicted upon the world was horrifying.
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Hoopla Phil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 06:28 PM
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16. Going against the clear will of the people has it's risks. She got booted for it.
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sharesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 06:36 PM
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18. That says more about the voters who booted her than it does about her.
Hang your head in shame Phil.
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Hoopla Phil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 06:55 PM
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19. The shame was hers for violating the will of the people.
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sharesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 07:02 PM
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20. The will of the people of Texas is now to teach the bible in public school. Duh.
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Marblehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:28 PM
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7. most likely
stolen.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:38 PM
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8. EXACTLY.
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Hoopla Phil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:27 PM
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13. Nope. There was never any doubt about that election. See post 9.
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Hoopla Phil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:23 PM
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9. Ann lost on ONE issue and ONE issue alone.
Had Ann not vetoed the legislature AND the referendum that passed on concealed handgun licenses in Texas she would not have lost. W ran with "if it gets to my desk I'll sign it" campaign and that's all it took. The people of Texas were pissed off BIG TIME at Ann. It cost her and this whole nation eventually.
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 06:25 PM
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15. Texas is like California
They vote for the name.

Sorry, but it's the truth.
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 07:11 PM
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21. He would have tried again ...
... or run for senate, or moved to a different state and tried there. He felt entitled to an office. He would have got one somehow.
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