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THE EYES of America, I observe, are on Texas. How about this from, forgoshsake, the New York Times: “Contest in Texas to Test Currents in U.S. Politics”?

Republican Clayton Williams, an old-fashioned Texas male from his Stetson to his cowboy boots, is running for governor against a liberated woman, Ann Richards, snowy-haired state treasurer and Democratic rabble-rouser extraordinaire. Delivering the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, Mrs. Richards delivered the campaign’s second most famous line (after “Read my lips”): “Poor George,” twanged Mrs. Richards, “. . . he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”

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THE EYES of America, I observe, are on Texas. How about this from, forgoshsake, the New York Times: “Contest in Texas to Test Currents in U.S. Politics”?

Republican Clayton Williams, an old-fashioned Texas male from his Stetson to his cowboy boots, is running for governor against a liberated woman, Ann Richards, snowy-haired state treasurer and Democratic rabble-rouser extraordinaire. Delivering the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, Mrs. Richards delivered the campaign’s second most famous line (after “Read my lips”): “Poor George,” twanged Mrs. Richards, “. . . he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”