Sarah Palin

[Bill of Rights]

I received a forwarded letter from my mother, who is ultra-liberal, originally written by a person who claims to have been a high school classmate of Sarah Heath Palin. In it, she describes her town of Wasilla, AK as being composed of adults with an average IQ of a tenth-grader, who are happy as long as they can drink beer and hunt moose each year. She specifically describes Mrs. Palin as, in short, a "redneck".
I got thinking about this and all I can say is "God, I hope so!"
This is NOT a civilized world we live in, nor are our enemies "civilized".
Have we forgotten the 444 days when our people were held captive in Iran, freed on Reagan's inauguration? What an embarrassment to Jimmy Carter! Have we forgotten that they hold no qualms about killing innocents, be they men, women, or children?
People fret about her so-called inexperience and her lack of background in foreign policy. This is why a president has advisers, and let's just say that at some point, McCain goes in for a colonoscopy (as Bush has done) and she is "acting President" under the Constitution, and this is when the terrorists strike, thinking her a mere weak female.
If in fact she is a "redneck", she just might have been in a bar fight or two, and if so, she knows that when you're fighting, there are no rules; the gloves are off and you fight to win.
As I recall, we had a President once who could properly have been called a "redneck", and Theodore Roosevelt didn't turn out to be too bad a guy.
He promoted the idea of "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
A "redneck" knows that if you carry it, you better be ready to use it, and as President, you carry some pretty big sticks.
I hope the rag-headed barbarian camel-jockeys do try something on her watch, I really do, because when it's all done, America will come back, just like after the Twin Towers fell and the Pentagon had a hole in it. We might have a big black eye, but our enemies will be lying on the floor, broken and bleeding, and they'll know that once and for all, they got their asses kicked by a girl.

Blessings,
B

[strongcrow]

I agree it's time to put a Redneck in the whitehouse. We've had our share of f**king lawyers and educated bookthumpers, and where has it gotten us?

[Bill of Rights]

Originally Posted by strongcrow

I agree it's time to put a Redneck in the whitehouse. We've had our share of f**king lawyers and educated bookthumpers, and where has it gotten us?

Funny how the book they thump is never the Constitution and only the Bible when they're getting sworn in or want to use it to support further restricting American freedoms and liberties.

Blessings,
B

[RogerB]

Originally Posted by Bill of Rights

I received a forwarded letter from my mother, who is ultra-liberal, originally written by a person who claims to have been a high school classmate of Sarah Heath Palin. In it, she describes her town of Wasilla, AK as being composed of adults with an average IQ of a tenth-grader, who are happy as long as they can drink beer and hunt moose each year. She specifically describes Mrs. Palin as, in short, a "redneck".
I got thinking about this and all I can say is "God, I hope so!"
This is NOT a civilized world we live in, nor are our enemies "civilized".
Have we forgotten the 444 days when our people were held captive in Iran, freed on Reagan's inauguration? What an embarrassment to Jimmy Carter! Have we forgotten that they hold no qualms about killing innocents, be they men, women, or children?
People fret about her so-called inexperience and her lack of background in foreign policy. This is why a president has advisers, and let's just say that at some point, McCain goes in for a colonoscopy (as Bush has done) and she is "acting President" under the Constitution, and this is when the terrorists strike, thinking her a mere weak female.
If in fact she is a "redneck", she just might have been in a bar fight or two, and if so, she knows that when you're fighting, there are no rules; the gloves are off and you fight to win.
As I recall, we had a President once who could properly have been called a "redneck", and Theodore Roosevelt didn't turn out to be too bad a guy.
He promoted the idea of "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
A "redneck" knows that if you carry it, you better be ready to use it, and as President, you carry some pretty big sticks.
I hope the rag-headed barbarian camel-jockeys do try something on her watch, I really do, because when it's all done, America will come back, just like after the Twin Towers fell and the Pentagon had a hole in it. We might have a big black eye, but our enemies will be lying on the floor, broken and bleeding, and they'll know that once and for all, they got their asses kicked by a girl.

Blessings,
B

Good post Bill, and I totally agree. Might be time for Lady Liberty to show how much of a bitch she can be when you mistake her for a lightweight.

[techres]

Last week I got called a redneck at work. Not so much for the gun I carry every day, or for the rifle in my trunk, or even for all the customers who come into my technical store to get an update on shooting events in the state.

No, I got called a redneck for having a "huge knife" on my belt next to my cel phone. The comment was mostly made in jest, but all humor carries intended meaning and I heard it. But I was not upset. Why? Because the night before I just read a book about the American Revolution that put things in perspective. The story is about British Gen. Gage who intended to disarm a country in order to change their politics and freedoms:

His purpose was to remove from Yankee hands the means of violent resistance until a time when cooler heads would prevail. To that end, General Gage proposed to disarm New England by a series of small surgical operations--meticulously planned, secretly mounted, and carried forward with careful economy of force.(Paul Revere's Ride, pg. 43)

Standing in his way was a known element, with known tactics, and known skill -- those he called "bushmen". He wanted to limit their influence and numbers in part by keeping people in the cities and under better control:

Gage observed that "the people themselves have gradually retired from the Coast," and "are, already, almost out of the reach of Law and Government." In 1770 he told his superiors in London that it was "in the interest of Great Britain to confine the Colonists on this side of the back country." By restricting American settlement to the Atlantic coast, he believed that the material base of the American "democracy" might be undercut. (Paul Revere's Ride, pg. 39)

So what about these bushmen & militamen, these men influenced by or living outside the coast itself:

...the Regulars did not refer to the New England milita as Americans, but as "country people", or "provincials", "Yankeys", "peasants", "rebels", or "villians" in the Oxford English Dictionary's definition of "a low-born, base-minded rustic"...(Paul Revere's Ride, pg. 110)

Or what we call now call "briars", "hillbilly's", "gun-nuts", or even "rednecks".

And how did these "rednecks" do? What part were they to play? Perhaps the most pivotal role from the onset:

With startling prescience, Gage understood the form that resistance would probably take. On March 4, 1775, he wrote to Darmouth in London, "The most natural and eligible mode of attack on the part of the people is that of detached parties of bushmen who from their adroitness in the habitual use of the firelock suppose themselves sure of their mark at a distance of 200 [yards]. Should hostilities unhappily commence, the first opposition would be irregular, impetuous, and incessant from the numerous bodies that would swarm to the place of action and all actuated by an enthusiasm wild and ungovernable.

Even if the worst happened, Gage believed that a strong force of Regular troops under experienced professional officers had little to fear from these "bushmen". He wrote that he was "firmly persuaded that there is not a man amongst [them] capable of taking command or directing the motions of an army." It was the only error in a remarkably trenchant analysis--but one error would be more than enough. His mistake in judgement was not about the probability of resistance, or the motives, tactics, and fighting skills of the New England militia, but about the quality of leadership among them.(Paul Revere's Ride, pg. 86)

These "low-born" & "rustic" men, any from outside the control of the cities, using their known skills, known tactics, and especially their unknown & underestimated professionalism and leadership brought a new nation from a British occupied set of colonies.

"Redneck"? "Hillbilly"? "Gun-Nut"?

I will take no offense, none at all.

History puts those words in perspective. Like the title of "Bushman", I will wear those names with pride. And I know that my ancestors would be proud too.

I hope Mrs. Palin also carries that name with pride, even when it is slung with the intent of insult.

[epsylum]

Smart presidents are not necessarily good.

Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson, and FDR were all very intelligent, but HORRIBLE presidents (yes, I think FDR sucked ass, I don't care what the "greatest generation" says).

[melensdad]

Originally Posted by Bill of Rights

I received a forwarded letter from my mother. . .
Blessings,
B

Can you post that forwarded email here so we can see what Obama spam looks like? It might become a tool we can use to "debunk" the junk.

If you don't want to publicly share, I'd love to get an email copy myself so I can give it a critical look.

[indyjoe]

Originally Posted by techres

Because the night before I just read a book about the American Revolution that put things in perspective. The story is about British Gen. Gage who intended to disarm a country in order to change their politics and freedoms

I was reading through that same part of Paul Revere's Ride last night too. I am amazed how little we were taught about this time in history.

[4sarge]

Originally Posted by techres

Last week I got called a redneck at work. Not so much for the gun I carry every day, or for the rifle in my trunk, or even for all the customers who come into my technical store to get an update on shooting events in the state.

No, I got called a redneck for having a "huge knife" on my belt next to my Ceil phone. The comment was mostly made in jest, but all humor carries intended meaning and I heard it. But I was not upset. Why? Because the night before I just read a book about the American Revolution that put things in perspective. The story is about British Gen. Gage who intended to disarm a country in order to change their politics and freedoms:



Standing in his way was a known element, with known tactics, and known skill -- those he called "bushmen". He wanted to limit their influence and numbers in part by keeping people in the cities and under better control:



So what about these bushmen & militiamen, these men influenced by or living outside the coast itself:



Or what we call now call "briars", "hillbilly's", "gun-nuts", or even "rednecks".

And how did these "rednecks" do? What part were they to play? Perhaps the most pivotal role from the onset:



These "low-born" & "rustic" men, any from outside the control of the cities, using their known skills, known tactics, and especially their unknown & underestimated professionalism and leadership brought a new nation from a British occupied set of colonies.

"Redneck"? "Hillbilly"? "Gun-Nut"?

I will take no offense, none at all.

History puts those words in perspective. Like the title of "Bushman", I will wear those names with pride. And I know that my ancestors would be proud too.

I hope Mrs. Palin also carries that name with pride, even when it is slung with the intent of insult.

Rep added

Truer words were never spoken. It's been the working class rednecks (add slang term here) who brought this country to freedom, fought and won all of it's wars and who suffer the insults and barbs of the elitist liberals. Herding folks into the big cities is occurring now with the high price of fuel and what happened to air travel. I remember when traveling this great nation was a pastime. Now, with the fuel price increase, decrease of air travel and the TSA, extensive travel is almost a thing of the past.

Barack is correct, we do need change, just Not his.

[CarmelHP]

TR was born to a high society family, he was no redneck. Now, Andrew Jackson, there was a redneck.