It used to tick me off when the Muslim detractors in the
Middle East, or the socialist
detractors in Europe, Hollywood and others called our
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, not the black hats,
who were usually the bad guys.
There was
Hopalong
Cassidy, the Lone Ranger.....
there was Red Ryder, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers......
then later, there was Marshall Matt Dillon,
Hoss & Li'l Joe Cartwright,
Paladin, Maverick and others....
Rawhide's Rowdy Yates
What were common attributes of these legendary cowboys?
Here are a few:
1. They were never looking for trouble.
2. But when trouble 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 usually 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.
Now, as a senior citizen, I still like cowboys..
They represent something good --
something pure that
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
-- 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 radical Muslims are wrong.*
In the old West, might did
not make right.
Right made might.
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 got his man!
Cowboys do, you know.