Posted on 02/18/2008 4:53:13 AM PST by Bulldawg Fan
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.
Boy does that nail it.
Yup.
Hey, there................
Phooey, how can I argue this when we have Oprah, Shriver and Caroline having the vapors over Obama...ick!
Excellent analysis. Spot on.
The use of “white” was totally superfluous in the little missive. None of the traits enumerated have anything at all to do with being white. You’ll find white, black, brown, asian, etc men with all those same qualitie and concerns.
Because steadfast is an attribute they don't understand. Anger, OTH, is something they have is spades.
opps, did I say spades? What I really meant to say was "in plenty", yeah like lots, ok?
Because it’s the white ones that are being targeted by liberal “political correctness”. Otherwise you are right.
Considering the way the field of Presidential candidates is shaping up I think we are going to look back on the Presidency of George W. Bush with longing for the good old days.
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That tells us it is far past the time to make a major change in our political system.
People are always saying:
"Don't worry, it could be worse."
As if George Bush isn't bad enough.
And yet they are right. It soon will be worse.
The bad news is that we have 3 liberal scumbags as serious contenders for the presidency right now.
The only good news is that the field will soon narrow down to two liberal scumbags and that only one of them will actually become president.
It is not the system that needs to change it is the people.
The old saying that “You get the leaders that you deserve” is true.
Like it or not the people of the United States chose these BOZOs. (What disturbs me most is that the most politically interested amongst the population votes in primaries)
WE need to get better at educating our fellow Americans if we want better government.
Well the hidden message may well be the Angry & Armed White Male is generally a strong advocate for 2nd Amendment...and thus will pose a threat to the “new” Socialism as manifested by the current none of the above candidates
Real political party zealots want the party to win and maintain its power above all other considerations.
The two parties are actually almost indistinguishable - just two branches of the same party - the one that has a lock on the government.
The system itself effectively prevents a meaningful third party challenge.
They may compete between themselves to get the bigger share of power and money but they close ranks against any outside challenge.
Look what happened when citizens rebelled against the Shamnesty bill.
We ended up on one side fighting republicans and democrats on the other side.
Does it feel better when it is a republican giving away $30 billion dollars instead of a democrat?
Is illegal amnesty better when it is the brainchild of a republican president than a democrat?
But what options do we have?
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I agree. The media always label conservative voting blocks in a negative way. You’d never see them calling Hillary’s supporters “dependent women” or Obama’s supporters “race-obsessed blacks”.
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