> Ann Richards was a conservative democrat <
No disrepect intended either toward you or Mrs. Richards, but when you say was she a "conservative," how on earth can that be true?
EXACTLY!!!! I stand ready to be corrected, so let me see her position on taxes, abortion, guns, and on and on and on and on and on. I lived in TX when this real character, this funny broad, this true original, this witty, real TX lady, was elected, and she reminds me of Michael Moore, B. Mikulsky, and Jesse Jackson -- because she was far more caustic than most elected officials she was dubbed by the press as "down to Earth and plain spoken" -- in other words she could say ANYTHING and get a pass for it.
Ann Richards was a woman; she was not a "lady."