- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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."
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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