The U.S.S. PRAGMATRIOT

As you all know by now, Hunky Hub is an active duty military officer. He is a quiet foil to my shrieking brand of political hysteric. As exorcised as I was when I found myself gruffly cast into Steerage, he smoothed my brow and insisted that there was a job to be done--a  solemn duty in spite of the party raging topside.

He assured me that Patriots sprinkled from sea to shining sea will protect this country from those fools and those fools from themselves. And none will be the wiser. While the Liberals spool up about important things like the relative temperature of a bucket of piss on the polar ice cap, everyday folks in fly over country will go to work, raise strong children and keep this Nation on course. Its what we do. Quietly toiling in the engine room to make sure that though we may drift off heading, we will not sink.

We are the party of thoughtful consideration. We are the party of altruistic sacrifice. We are the party of pragmatic patriotism.

They are just a party. And it falls to us to minimize the hangover.

(Hat tip to Hunky Hub for inventimating that word.)

Comments

[rhino-itall]

Pragmatriot. I like it.

Keep up the good work.

[Stealthkix]

Jane, I've just discovered you and I think I'm in love.

[Sniper One]

Tell your husband he's a damn smart guy and we need more people of his caliber around.

[seejanemom]

So many compliments gentlemen--my most sincere gratitude for you troubling to comment. It makes my day.REALLY. Hunky Hub is the smartest guy I know and I am lucky to have him covering my six...and just grateful for him covering my anything else...heehee.

[Donkeyhue]

Now lets just wait a gosh darn minute here. Noone mentioned anything about a husband. That wasnt part of the deal.

[Pockmark Notorious]

Jane,

I hate to be so critical in my very first post in the comments section of your blog, but I really feel the need to point something out.

If you honestly believe that your country, The United States of America, is comprised of 2 kinds of people (the ones you described in your previous post and the ones you describe in this one), than you are sadly mistaken.

As for you description of the Republican Party as being a certain type of party...well, I'm not saying you're not pragmaticly patriotic, and I'm not saying you're not thoughtfully considerate.

I'm not even saying you're not altruisticaly sacrificial.

I'm just saying.

Pocky ;)

[seejanemom]

I wish to form a thoughtful response to you Pocky, but I'm off to the dedication of the Marine Corps Museum. I will get right back. Promise.

LATER: Can we agree that we are not the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln? That is not a stretch. But I maintain that we are no longer even the Party of Ronald Reagan. We have forgotten our deepest roots. So when it seems that I have divided the country into two distict factions---and let us be honest in that nomenclature---I am deeply saddened to acknowledge that there are MANY FEWER TRUE CONSERVATIVES in this country than ever before. I will not --EVER-- consider the weighty and obstructionist Left of any value to the fabric of this Nation. So that leaves the TRUE CONSERVATIVES, and everyone else. For that distiction, I make no apology.

Thoughtful dissent is ALWAYS welcomed here. Come back soon, Pocky!

And as for you Donkeyhue, sugar...you are sweetheart who I hope to wake up to every single morning for the rest of my virtual life. ;)

[john]

Shaky Analogy Alert

I'm afraid while the pragmatriots are toiling away in the engine room, many on this massive ship-of-state are busy rebuilding much of the structure. They are getting rid of the history section in the ship's library and disassembling those mean old gun turrets. These areas are all being replaced with mental health clinics specializing in self-esteem. Those same people are also working to eliminate that awful hierarchical command structure and have the ship run by consensus.

Dennis Prager had a kid on his show whose school had just dropped the one-year American History course and replaced it with one-semester of American Racism and one semester of American Sexism. Dennis received many hundreds of emails confirming similar situations around the country.

Michelle Malkin was chastised by a college student for quoting a Founder, because - after all - they were all slaveholders.

I fear that too soon, when a squadron of bogies drops out of the clouds or a battle group steams over the horizon or a bomb goes off below decks, not enough pragmatriots will be left to sucessfully defend the ship, while the rest will be on deck trying to figure out how best to open lines of communications with those on the attack.

[{Editor's Note} Jane responds: You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT JOHN. I adore the language we speak, and I certainly waxed poetic with my METAPHOR. :) But I will tell you that I agree COMPLETELY with your analysis of the sad reality. I regret that we at the bottom are always the first to feel the water seeping in... and I'm ankle deep already.]

[john]

Jane,

My Shaky Analogy Alert was definitely not a criticism of your metaphor! You can flat do 'dis language thing. I was just afraid that I was about to stretch your analogy 'til it split apart at the seams (Oops, there goes another one).

[{Editor's Note} Jane Responds: Split it 'till it rips, Baby! That's the fun of this, don't you think? I'm just glad somebody cares enough to comment --TWICE! Don't be a stranger!]