Everyone is blubbering in their beer that Ann Richards croaked recently, but I remember her as a dried-up, old, partisan, lefto, reformed drunk.

She was a "progressive" gad-fly for years and then became State Treasurer.

Texans often don't show much common sense, and she was elected guv in 1990.

She pursued a lefto course opposing guns, letting crooks out of the pen, and also was very progressive in instituting a lottery.

I remember her for her famous goober blather at the 1988 Demo National Convention. "Pore George. He cain't he'p it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouf." (Har, Har, Har.)

George W. Bush gave her, her walking papers at the next election.