Never Trust Anyone Who Hasn’t Been Punched in the Face

Taki's Magazine ^ | September 07, 2011 | Scott Locklin

[Little Ray]

I think Mr. Locklin may have something here.

So, who, in the current crop of candidates, would you trust to get your back?

I'm keep coming up with a complete blank.

[Chode]

i've still got the crooked nose to prove it...

[jmacusa]

I was raised by a father who’d punch me in the face or head for so much as a look. He taught me and my four brothers to box. I’ve played soccer , I took karate classes and I’ve been cold-cocked with a black-jack but didn’t go down(rule #1 in a street fight: don’t go down), I’ve been in plenty of fistfights. I know what this guys talking about.

[dog breath]

I don't know, Newt has always been pretty ornery, I think he once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die....or was that Johnny Cash?

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

This goes with my theory on free speech spoken from a barstool. You are free to say anything you want but it may have consequences.

[Inyo-Mono]

Manly bump.

[Minn]

Entertaining, but silly. Real men are tough, but have no need or desire to prove it. Inadequate men feel the need to prove toughness.

[Major Matt Mason]

Teddy may have been a tough guy, but he wasn't a great president, certainly not a conservative one. But most of the GOP presidential candidates have been wimps because many of the establishment types are wimps. I honestly think that is the appeal of Obama to some people that would otherwise not like him - even though he isn't a tough guy in reality, he tries to project that persona with at least some success. He has somehow given the idea that he has street cred when he is in fact a wimpy elitist like most of the folks running the show in DC.

[MarkL]

Well, GHW Bush was a naval aviator during WWII, who survived being shot down and was rescued by a US submarine.

GW Bush was a jet fighter pilot who flew what may have been the most dangerous (to the pilots) fighter jet ever put into service by the USAF.

Mark

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That may not be the point of the article.

[Psalm 144]

“So, who, in the current crop of candidates, would you trust to get your back?

I’m keep coming up with a complete blank.”

Perry. Probably Huntsman - I am assessing the man here, not his policies. Newt if we were attempting the same objective. Could be wrong on any or all.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I admire Teddy in many ways, but the truth is he was basically a Progressive and really sent us down the path leading here.

[gettinolder]

I like this article. It resonates with me.

I recently showed one of my daughters scars on my knuckles from fist fights as a younger man, my wife was so impressed she called in my youngest son (17) to see them too. Neither of them knew about the source of these scars.

I've had a revolver pointed at me at point blank range after I broke up a fight.(cocked, and held by a scared cop too cowardly to stop two thugs who were beating the crap out of a young man. WTF?)

Also had a confrontation with another gun (all these earlier in life...)

Today, I find the same attitude surfacing that I had early as a young man, "Don't Tread On Me". I feel the necessity to stay as physically strong as possible with these perilous times, two young daughters and a beautiful wife to protect and defend.

Thanks for posting the article.

[Track9]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Little Ray.

They're forever tugging at my heartstrings, from No Child Left Behind to Israel's plight to MLK's wonders to whining that the media doesn't play fair to the overwrought emotional appeals they use to justify dropping bombs on Muslims. The Republicans are even taking seriously a pure victim-candidate: Michelle Bachman. As far as can be told, she's a middle-American Barack Obama with boobs and a slightly loopier world view... Teddy Roosevelt, my ideal President, kept a lion and a bear as pets in the White House and took his daily exercise doing jiu-jitsu and boxing. He even lost vision in an eye in a friendly boxing match while he was president. Our last three glorious leaders are men who kept fluffy dogs and went jogging.

TR, his ideal President? TR was the main enabler for the "conservation" movement -- the iron grip on western states' resources by TR's tennis buddies -- despite his "trust buster" reputation. He's the Bully Progressive and founder of the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party. And not surprisingly, he also handed the election to one of our most dangerous despotic prez, Woodrow "Kept Us Out of War" Wilson -- another Nobel Peace Prize winner.

[Jeff Chandler]

What’s with the slap at Israel and defense of moslems? Those didn’t fit in with the rest of the article.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I think Mr. Locklin may have something here."

I think Mr. Locklin spent a lot of time needlessly typing away when he could have simply quoted CS Lewis:

“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

[piytar]

Perry. He at least will defend his dog by shooting a coyote...

[Vermont Lt]

BTT

[Fester Chugabrew]

Not that it would give reason to trust me, but I was punched in the face at a fairly young age, right after the State forced busing into my school. The impact came out of nowhere, for no other reason that I gave a friendly wave to someone from the inner city.

In retrospect, while his reaction was totally inappropriate (he was suspended), he probably thought he was being mocked and took action. Standard assumptions taught him to be defensive (or rather offensive).

Ever since, I don’t look strangers in the face, or reach out to them in any way, without reserve. When the fellow walking down the sidewalk with pants drooping half down his ass turns around to stare as I approach from behind in my car, I look away and mutter to myself words that would cause Al Sharpton to take offense.