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To: mtbopfuyn
I've never understood why the left pounced on the word, "cowboy". Cowboys are respresented as being trustful, hardworking, quiet, thoughtful, strong shouldered, honest, plain talking, cut to the chase, one of the good guys, and if you must, a hero.

People in urban centers seem to consider "cowboy" as a derogatory term. People in the red areas of the country usually know or have known the real cowboy. They know them to be as you described. I personally LOVE COWBOYS. ( Including the Dallas ones before Jerry Jones)

43 posted on 04/15/2003 7:00:43 AM PDT by mathluv
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To: mathluv
I went to a Republican ladies' luncheon today in Alvin, suburb of Houston,and they read this at the luncheon.
I like it!

They call my President a "Cowboy"

It used to tick me off when the Muslim detractors in the Middle East, or
the socialist detractors in Europe, Hollywood and other cesspools of
America called my President a cowboy; but the more I think about it, the
more glad I am that he is.

When I was a kid, cowboys were my heroes. Well, I mean the ones in the
white hats, the black hats were the bad guys.
There was Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Johnny Mack Brown, Hopalog Cassiday,
Red Ryder, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, then later Marshall Matt Dillon, and others.
Personally, I think Gene Autry could beat 'em all up, and then sing a song
afterward to his girl friend. He was my favorite.

What were common attributes of these legendary cowboys? Here are a few:

1. They were never looking for trouble.
2. But when it came, they faced it with courage.
3. They were always on the side of right.
4. They defended good people against bad people.
5. They had high morals.
6. They had good manners.
7. They were honest.
8. They spoke their minds and they spoke the truth, regardless of what
people thought or "political correctness," which no one had ever heard
of back then.
9. They were a beacon of integrity in the wild, Wild West.
10. They were respected. When they walked into a saloon (where they
drank only sarsaparilla), the place became quiet, and the bad guys kept
their distance.
11. If in a gunfight, they could outdraw anyone. If in a fist fight,
they could beat up anyone.
12. They always won. They always got their man. In victory, they rode
off into the sunset.

Those were the days when there was such a thing as right and wrong,
something blurred in our modern world, and denied by many. Those were
the days when women were respected and treated as ladies, because
they acted like ladies.

Now as a senior citizen, I still like cowboys. They represent something
good -- something pure that America has been missing.

Ronald Reagan was a cowboy. I like Ronald Reagan, who was brave,
positive, and who gave us hope. He wore a white hat. To the consternation
of his liberal critics, he had the courage to call a spade a spade and call
the former Soviet Union what it was -- the evil empire.
Liberals hated Ronald Reagan.

They also hate President Bush because he distinguishes between good and
evil. He calls a spade a spade, and after 9-11 called evil "evil,"
without mincing any words, to the shock of the liberal establishment. That's
what cowboys do, you know.

He also told the French to "put their cards on the table" (old West
talk), which they did, exposing their cowardice and greed.

The Arabs are wrong. In the old West, might did not make right. Right
made right. Cowboys in white hats were always on the side of right, and that
was their might.

I am glad my President is a cowboy. He will get his man. Cowboys do, you
know.

Anonymous

55 posted on 04/15/2003 7:12:13 AM PDT by buffyt (What did the art major say to the engineering major? Want fries with that????)
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