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...Bush's case, buying a ranch is even more significant. While he doesn't repudiate his New England heritage, he has always insisted that he is a Texan. Buying a ranch is a way of saying once and for all that he's a Texan, that his values are rural and instinctive rather than urban and intellectual, that he is his own man and not the prisoner of his family legacy. Owning a ranch is homage to a past that must be easier to honor than it would have been to live in. It's walking in the footsteps...
Gore's initial response promised that the night would hold few fireworks. Gore stuck to his bread and butter strength--mastery of the issues--while Bush tried to be a straight-talking Texan...
...went back to the pool for some diving, and this Texan, Laura Wilkinson, came from way back to win the women's platform - on a broken foot! She broke it practicing six months ago and hasn't had surgery yet. She had to wear a special shoe just to climb the ladder. In the last dives, she was nearly perfect, and the Chinese and Canadians started doing belly flops and cannonballs. The crowd was moaning, the dives were so bad. Wilkinson won, and said the foot felt fine: "I'm so happy I don't feel a thing...
...grand Texan tradition, George W. Bush, during his run for the Texan governorship, headed off into the woods in the middle of dove shooting season with rifle on shoulder and a pack of reporters following close upon his heels--no doubt to showcase his closeness to nature and the common man. In fact, Bush did shoot and bag a bird. Unfortunately, the bird had the audacity not to be a dove, but a killdee--a member of an endangered species no less...
What Bush has done is sign into law an NRA backed bill that allows almost any Texan who is not a felon to obtain a concealed carry license and carry concealed handguns into churches, amusement parks and even schools. Bush still staunchly defends the law despite polls showing that less than a majority of Texans support it. Last year, he signed into law another NRA backed bill banning Texas cities and counties from bringing lawsuits against the firearm industry. In a recent survey of state gun laws, Texas ranked 45th in the nation, having some of the weakest gun control...