As a native Texan, history taught me about the giants of Texas politics… John Nance Garner… and particularly Sam Rayburn. Then there was Jim Wright… run out of office by a manufactured scandal originating from the fertile imagination of Newt Gingrich.
We had Governors of near giant stature as well… Sam Houston, Jim Ferguson and his wife Miriam “Ma” Ferguson… and who can forget Ann Richards…
Texas has produced only two Presidents… Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush. I’ll leave it to you to judge these men.
Today it comes out that our current Governor, Rick Perry, is considering a run for the White House. No surprise to anyone… he’s been posturing for a long time. Thanks to Harold Cook I’m reminded of a statement made by the most eloquent of Texas ladies, Molly Ivins (Oh my, but I miss Molly!) not long after GWB won his first round on the national stage…
"The next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please, pay attention."
I hear you Molly… I’m listening.
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If you stretch the definition of Texan to include George Bush the Smarter, you can easily see why we should never elect another Texan to the White House. All three of them started wars. And the last puer illegitimus gave us two. No sir, we can't afford another Texan president.
Could we get Rick Perry to run for president of some other country -- perhaps Libya -- and get him out of Texas?
Montag, I don't count GWHB as being from Texas. He was addressed here, but he was dyed in the wool yankee... and he didn't run as a Texan.
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