Angry White Men

Several bloggers that I read regularly linked to this outstanding article in the Aspen Times. The more I think about it, the more I believe with every fiber of my being that America is headed the way of the Roman Empire. Even more strongly than that, I believe that the individuals affectionately tabbed as "Angry White Men" in this aticle will be the ones that help put America back together the right way once the reset button is pressed (whether externally by war or by internal overthrow of the corrupt gangs of criminals in power in D.C.). My prayer is that myself and my descendants (especially my son(s)) will be counted proudly as members of this group. This article is so good, I posted the whole thing below.

"In Election 2008, Don’t Forget Angry White Man"
Gary Hubbell
February 9, 2008

"There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.

Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.

There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.

His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.

The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.

He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.

The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.

The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.

His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.

He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.

Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.”

He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.

He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.

Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.

He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.

There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.

He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum."Gary Hubbell is a writer, photographer, location scout for films and photo shoots, and a ranch real estate broker. He writes a monthly column for the Aspen Times Weekly.

Governor Mitt Romney's Farewell Speech at CPAC

The news of the day is that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) is withdrawing from the GOP presidential primary race, effectively handing the nomination to John McCain (RINO-AZ). Unlike Senator McCain and Senator Clinton (I'm leaving out Senator Obama because he hasn't really had to campaign on anything solid, yet) he conducted his campaign with grace and class, which is probably some of the reason he lost. Governor Romney was also the last chance conservatives had that anyone with a semblance of conservative beliefs might make it to the White House in 2008. His critics said he came to his conservative viewpoints late in life, but I would rather see someone who admits mistakes and is willing to change beliefs when confronted with contrary facts and evidence than I would someone who sticks to the same tired, wrongheaded politics of class warfare, lies and spin, and mudslinging (and the policies resulting therefrom) just because they think it will get them into or kep them in power (see: McCain, John and Clinton, Bill and Hillary). Governor Romney gave a great speech to CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) today, and it's definitely worth passing along. Here's the link and some key excerpts below. We'll miss you Governor Romney, and God help us all after November 2008. We will have a big government socialist in the White House, it's only a matter now of what color, gender, and political party letter after the name will be behind our new President.

"Culture makes all the difference. What is it about America's culture that's led us to become the most powerful nation in the history of the world? Well, we believe in hard work and education. We love opportunity. Almost all of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants who came here for opportunity. Opportunity's in our DNA. Americans love God, and those who don't have faith typically believe in something greater than themself -- a purpose-driven life, if you will. And we sacrifice, as Americans, everything we have, even our lives, for our families, for our freedoms, and for our country.

These values and beliefs of free American people are the source of the nation's strength and they always will be.

The threat -- the threat to our culture comes from within. In the 1960s there were welfare programs that created a culture of poverty in our country. Now some people think we won that battle when we reformed welfare, but the liberals haven't give up. At every turn they try to substitute government largess for individual responsibility. They fight to strip work requirements from welfare, to put more people on Medicaid and remove more and more people from having to pay any income tax whatsoever. Dependency is death to initiative, risk taking and opportunity. Dependency is culture killing. It's a drug. We have got to fight it like the poison it is.

The attack on faith and religion is no less relentless, and tolerance for pornography, even celebration of it, and sexual promiscuity, combined with the twisted incentives of government welfare, have led to today's grim realities. Sixty-eight percent of African-American kids born out of wedlock; 45 percent of Hispanic kids, 25 percent of white kids -- how much harder it is for these kids to succeed in school and in life. A nation built on the principles of the Founding Fathers cannot long stand when its children are raised without fathers in the home. ...

It is the common task of each generation -- and the burden of liberty -- to preserve this country, expand its freedoms and renew its spirit so that its noble past is prologue to its glorious future.

To this task, accepting this burden, we're all dedicated, and I firmly believe, by the providence of the Almighty, that we will succeed beyond our fondest hope. America must always remain, as it has always been, the hope of the Earth."

By Your Friends Shall Ye Know Them, Senator McCain?

OK, so John McCain wants the voters to make up our mind between himself and Governor Romney, at least in part, on the basis of the people who support them. Fair enough, even if it's not an exhaustive list, let's do that shall we?

For Senator McCain, we have the following endorsers and supporters (Partial Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin):

Governor Charlie Crist (RINO-FL);
Senator Mel "Amnesty" Martinez (RINO-FL);
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (RINO-CA);
Senator Lindsey Graham-nesty (RINO-SC);
Former Governor Don Sundquist (RINO-TN);
Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe (RINO-ME);
Senator Joe Lieberman (I/D-CT) (Sen. McCain co-authored the McCain-Lieberman cap-and trade Economy Crippling Act with him;
The National Council of La Raza (that means "The Race" in Spanish);
Dr. Juan "Mexico First" Hernandez;
Geraldo Rivera;
Charles Keating;
Jerrold Perenchio;
The New York Times;
The L.A. Times;
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) (Sen. McCain co-authored the wretched amnesty bill of 2007with him);
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) (Sen. McCain co-authored the First Amendment crushing McCain-Feingold Incumbent Protection Act with him);
Senator Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton (they think he's just lovely and civil, at least until those trailer-trash jackals eat him for breakfast in the general election)

For Governor Romney, we have the following:

Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA);
Kris Kobach
Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity (outright endorsements);
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh (clear supporters as a McCain alternative);
Mark Levin at National Review Online;
Congressman Brian Bilbray (R-CA)...he is one of the foremost voices in the House pressing for employers to verify their employees are present and working in the U.S. legally;
U.S. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN);
Andrew McCarthy;
Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS);
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA);
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC);
Congressman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI); and,
Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CA).

So to recap, we have a bunch of RINOs who would, in any other era past, have been considered Democrats, along with a collection of actual Democrats, open borders racists, liberal newspapers, and deep pocketed internationalists supporting McCain...and for Romney, while his list hasn't quite the length of Senator McCain's, it features many strong fiscal conservatives, national security hawks, advocates of enforcement-first and only on illegal immigration, and solid conservative talk show hosts and columnists. This math is not difficult, so if conservatives take Senator McCain at his request, he would be in deep trouble come Super Tuesday. We can only hope.

A Well-Researched Deconstruction of McCain's "Conservatism"

Bill Quick at Daily Pundit pens today's must-read piece ahead of Super Tuesday regarding Senator John McCain (RINO-AZ). Some of the topics it mentions I have covered in other posts, as have other bloggers, but there are new goodies in there, especially his stances on drug reimportation, his class warfare rhetoric that goes back a long time, his support of "The Patient's Bill of Rights", and from the comments, his support for the abominable "Law of the Sea Treaty" (which would cede a massive amount of U.S. sovereignty to the United Nations), and his terrible records on the Second Amendment (ironic, in light of him being a former soldier). Read the whole thing. If that isn't enough to make you sick, check out what the Club for Growth has to say about McCain's positions, which include, among many other things, opposition to drilling in ANWR and a willingness to raise taxes to prop up outdated and ineffective social programs whose time has long passed, like Social Security. I take my constitutional duty and right to vote very seriously, but there is no way this fraud will ever get my vote.

Brock Lesnar Serves Notice to the UFC, Even in Defeat

I have a confession to make...I used to be quite the WWF/WWE wrestling fan back in the day. One of my favorite wrestlers was Brock Lesnar, not only because he was a successful athlete in the real world of sports prior to becoming a wrestler, but also because he didn't seem to let all the hype get to his head and make him forget who he was. Sure, he played along with the fake WWE scripts and ultimately ended up marrying one of the WWE divas in his real personal life, but he still always seemed to me a physically imposing small town guy who did TV wrestling to make some cash. As it turns out, that's exactly what he was. At the top of his game in the WWE, he could have been the champion on and off for the next two decades and possibly been the biggest star fake wrestling had ever seen. Then he took a look around at guys like Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and the other icons of the sport who spent their lives on the road 300 days a year, with their bodies breaking down and their family lives in shambles. Sadly, they can't quit, because, Hulk Hogan's occasional business success notwithstanding, guys like them don't know anything else to do. So Brock pulled a Barry Sanders and walked away from the WWE at the top of his game.

After an unsuccessful tryout with the NFL's Minnesota Vikings, he was turned on to MMA, and instantly fell in love with it. After easily dispatching a tomato can MMA fighter from South Korea in just over a minute in his MMA debut, he signed on with the UFC. For his first fight, they matched him up with former heavyweight champion Frank Mir, whose career and life were nearly ended by a terrible motorcycle accident. This is the first time in longer than I can remember that I have been excited to see a fight, and even though it only lasted about a minute and a half, this one did not disappoint. Brock came right out at the bell, started throwing bombs, took Mir down, and basically threw him around like a rag doll. Unfortunately, after being deducted a point for an inadvertent blow to the back of the head, Mir was able to clear his head. Lesnar took Mir down again, but this time, he made the rookie mistake of leaving a leg dangling for a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. One knee bar later, Lesnar tapped out, and the fight was over. To his credit, Lesnar made no excuses, gave credit to Mir as the better fighter that night, and said he would be back. The consensus in the fight game is that Brock Lesnar served notice that he's in the UFC to stay. I, for one, can't wait to watch him grow and improve in the sport. And if the UFC has any sense at all, they will get him back on a fight card ASAP. If they are really smart, they won't feed him hapless tomato cans to build his record, but they'll give him some good second-tier (just below championship level) competition to build his experience. At 30, he's still very young, and in a division of the UFC that is sorely lacking in talent and charisma, he is a welcome addition to the heavyweight division of the UFC.

February 2008 Resolution

My February 2008 resolutions are as follows:

1.) To begin giving offerings at my church. I am proud to say that I have already accomplished this by pledging an automatic contribution to my church's missions programs from Fenruary to the end of the year.; and,

2.) I am now putting my stretching and workouts back on the front burner, with daily stretching and workouts every other day for the month of February. This will be tough, sore going in the beginning, but I have to start somewhere, because I can't be a fat groom. :) Viva le' exercise!