Liberal
Patriot:
"Molly
Ivins was an unabashed patriot, and
it drove right-wingers nuts. Conservatives
somehow got it fixed in their brains
that patriotism meant being in lockstep
with their ideology, that dissent
was treason. Molly made a career of
reminding them otherwise, always careful
to point out how cute they were when
they acted like fools."
--Gary Cartwright, senior editor,
Texas Monthly, 2007. Molly Ivins (1944-2007),
a sharp-witted and clear-eyed columnist
who died of cancer last year, was
an unapologetic liberal. She once
observed, "There's nothing you
can do about being born liberal --
fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed."
