Former House Speaker Jim Wright dead at 92

AP via Fox News ^ | May 06, 2015

[re_nortex]

LBJ was worse.

There's a library on the UT-Austin campus named after Lyin' Lyndon. But that's par for the course since UT-Austin has long been a leftist indoctrination center. Just as bad is TCU employing Jim Wright as professor. All traces of atheism and leftism must be purged from Texas so that liberty can triumph in this beautiful state.

[re_nortex]

Me too! I wonder just what that FReeper was thinking? He/she hasn't responded to my question.

[trisham]

?

[re_nortex]

The FReeper who posed the bizarre question uses the name of TexanByBirth and like Jim Wright was also birthed in Texas. Perhaps he was upset that I characterized his fellow "native" Texan as a 'RAT? That's all I can figure since he has failed to respond to my question.

[JoeFromSidney]

only the good die young....”

That's because God gives the others lots of chances for repentance.

[trisham]

Anyone who knows of Wright or has read his bio would be shocked at any attempt to defend him, even at such a time as this, imho, so I’m mystified.

[Rennes Templar]

I never heard that one by Bette. Clever.

[vetvetdoug]

May he be rewarded with a snow cone every millennium to relieve him from the heat. RIP.

[TexanByBirth]

OK Smart Butt,

Did I say anything or even defend Jim Wright? No, I asked a simple question of you. Which, of course, you didn’t answer, but chose to make an assumption about me for some reason. Nice!

Of course I knew the answer before I even asked the question. It is very easy to tell keyboard wizards like you who have no clue what you are talking about by their post on Free Republic. And it is obvious you have no clue what you are talking about when it comes to the State of Texas.

Here is a brief history lesson for you. The reason there are so many freeways and buildings named for Democrats is because Texas has been a blue state for most of its existence. It has only been in the last 20 or so years that Texas has become a red state. And here is a shocker for you, there are buildings named for Democrats in rural Texas too. I guess rural Texas is also a third-world cesspool of socialist.

Here is something else for you to chew. There are buildings and highways named after Ronald Reagan in Texas. Including some in that socialist cesspool know as the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

You’ve already pulled down your pants and shown me and everyone else on FR your butt by making an unprovoked attack on me. Might as well pull your pants down again. Come on wizard, post a nice pithy comment back to me and prove me right.

[Jane Long]

BTTT!!

[re_nortex]

As I understand it, being born in Texas is oh-so important to you. Native Texans include commie 'RATs like LBJ, Jim Wright, Bob Schieffer, Lloyd Doggett, Domingo Garcia, Ann Richards, Dan Rather, Scott Pelley and many more. Non-native but true Texans include Senator Ted Cruz and Ted Nugent. But by your metric, since they weren't born in this Great State, they're not Texans. So, tell us, is that how your mind works?

[__rvx86]

Is it still a four-lane road? I used to go around there at times; it was a g_dawful parking lot every morning! Two lanes in each direction.

(IIRC, WrightFreeway is a segment of Loop820?)

[trisham]

Oddly enough, very few of us are able to dictate our place of birth.

[re_nortex]

Other "outsiders" include Sam Houston, William Travis, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett...

Guess they're not Texans either.

[fwdude]

The far West side tends to keep moving, it’s not until you move more to the Northwest and then North leg that it becomes congested. Yeah, Loop 820 is the entire loopy thing.

[re_nortex]

I was conceived (when life begins) in Texas but circumstances were such that my father was killed early in WWII. My Texan-born mother, then 7 months pregnant, relocated with my father's family home in Pennsylvania. That's why I happened to have been born there.

[trisham]

I’ve never even visited Texas. :)

[re_nortex]

I’ve never even visited Texas. :)

You really need to make the Lone Star State a destination. It's truly a one-of-a-kind place, with beautiful Gulf Coast beaches, scenic hill country vistas and the very finest food of all of the states. The music group Little Texas nailed it with their song, God Blessed Texas.

For a true Bible-believing, pro-liberty, pro-life, pro-gun, anti-sodomy Conservative Patriot, there's no simply better place to be! That's why I moved here by deliberate and thoughtful choice just prior to the time that FReeper TexanByBirth was graduating from A&M. I've been periodically trying to convince Jim and John Robinson to pull up stakes and relocate Free Republic to Texas, the land of the Free!

[re_nortex]

...and one more quick thing, if your travels bring you here, make a point to call the highway I-635 and not the LBJ Express! :)

[trisham]

We have relatives there, but they are mostly far-left types. Most of our relatives and friends are here or in Florida.

Still, I would like to visit Texas one day.