Posted on 11/26/2001 10:27:04 PM PST by Mudboy Slim
I've been a long-time subscriber to The Limbaugh Letter and the November 2001 issue had an excellent article called "The Rebirth of American Resolve," of which I will transcribe a short, yet poignant, excerpt...
"Except for travel and mail and whatnot, life in America has pretty much returned to pre-September-11 mode. People are engaging in their daily routines, going to work or school, shopping, participating in all the usual necessary and leisure activities. But bubbling just below the surface, undetected (save for various poll numbers) and misunderstood by the national media, is something enormous. It is quiet, but angry. It is channeled and disciplined, but has the taste and feel of revenge. It is determined and focused, but passionate. There is a word for this new (to us) national character trait: resolve. American resolve is something wonderous to behold. It actually has deep roots in our history, part of the fabric of the nation's almost-lost traditions and past. Many thought we had outgrown it, or had become too sophisticated and jaded and secular and materialistic and blase to ever again express it. To my generation, the Baby Boomers, and to the two generations that followed, Gen X and Gen Y, the mention of "American resolve"--if it was mentioned--brought to mind sepia-toned images of 40s-era war posters or grainy documentary footage of Allied soldiers in Europe. It was a long-forgotten age, the remnants of another nation altogether.
"Then we were attacked."
(The article goes on to explain the resultant unabashed patriotism that is much more Substance than Symbolism, and the Effete Elite's utter disdain for this raw emotional Love of Country, which the HateAmericaFirst Leftists in the Vast, LeftWing Medyuh Whore'd and the DemoncRAT Party LOATHE!!)
Then, the article continued...
"In fact, the elites among us continued to behave as they always had, banning the flag from workplaces, demanding that "God Bless America" be removed from signs. They were stunned at the vociferousness and vehemence of the anger that came back at them. Ordinary Americans, for the first time in my memory, decided to tell the elites to shove it. Without apology or hesitation. I have seen dozens of stories now, where some idiot stood in the way of an American's desire to express his or her love of country. In almost every instance, the idiot has backed down, shaken by the force of will that says, "We put up with your PC nonsense for years. Here's where it stops!!"
Methinks you married a very wise man...and I definitely know he's got great taste in women!!
Utmost FReegards...MUD
Too bad we don't have a Great Hero like Johnny McStain to save us from ourselves, right?! SHEEEESH, buddy, you used to have a clue...what happened?!
MUD
That's what I've been telling you and the rest of the clueless McCainiacs for well over a year now!! You sit there complaining about the temporary growth of the Federal Guv'ment--which we agree on, BTW--but you shamelessly supported the Leftists' favorite RINO, Senator McStain, fer POTUS. Yer logic is tragically disjointed, mi amigo.
MUD
Yes...but I long ago quit giving a damn about what the Vast, LeftWing Medyuh Whore'd had to say about anything, and we shouldn't expect those Lib'ral Anti-American Scumbags to change their Socialist Stripes...EVER!! Fact is, the word's getting out via Talk Radio and the Internet and word-of-mouth, and the Sheeple are slowly-but-surely coming to the realization that the LameStream Medyuh is against everything that made this Country GREAT!!
Stay the course, my FRiend, the Good Guys are Winning!!
FReegards...MUD
No, he didn't, my cynical FRiend...MUD
Rush rules!!!!!!!!!
FallGuy sent him some stuntmens patches and said to hang in there.I hope if for sure he does get the operation that it helps him.
Don't you love how he can go right into his impressions too. So fast and so good. I love it.
Rush is absolutely right! Thanks for posting this, Mud.
Needed repeating.............
redrock--Constitutional Terrorist
Woah, really?! I couldda sworn it was you that I used to really respect and then discovered you were a McCainiac--even months after McStain had exposed himself as a pud-whackin' RINO Medyuh Whore!! If not, my humble apologies, sir. Principled GoPatGoers are fine in my book, but I have no respect fer McCainiacs whatsoever. My bad...
Sorry & FReegards..."Pud"Boy
BTW...I still think you and Dirty Harry are being waaaay too cynical about the direction this Country's heading since 9/11...but I'll save that lecture for another day.
Senator Depends...LOL!! And he ain't letting up on "Puff" Daschle either...Rush is gradually setting the table for a Major DemonRAT Blowout in November '02 Election!! The Left is setting themselves up as Anti-American, Pro-Terrorist Obstructors of Justice and Rush's using his considerable Power to Give the Vast, LeftWing Medyuh Whore'd a Major Enema!!
Jumpin' Jim Jeffords has unwittingly put the Senate DemonRATS in the unenviable position of standing four-square against a POTUS enjoying a 90% Job Approval Rating and it's gonna cost more than a few RATS their seats!!
FReegards...MUD
The left is not dead. It killed the right and completely swallowed it up.
Yep...Rush's hearing may be on the fritz these days, but he remains incredibly WISE...and Wisdom is a very valuable--and RARE--commodity in America these days. It is a joy to listen to Rush gradually spin his web for the RATS to become entrapped in November '02, while simultaneously shaming the Leftist Medyuh into talking about some issues they'd obviously prefer to ignore. It really is "Talent On Loan From God!!"
FReegards...MUD
Well said my friend. Big time BTTT.
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