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To: Baynative

He’s a year older than me but has a much more impressive resume.

I’ve considered running for office, but I have no political-correctness filter. It’s for this reason I’ve not ascended to management in any of the jobs I’ve had. I don’t play the politics game very well, and if I was elected, I’d be the Congressman publicly upbraiding Nancy Pelosi on the House floor.

God bless this man’s future.


2 posted on 12/12/2013 11:24:55 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: rarestia
In his Crimson columns, Cotton fashioned himself a contrarian among a sea of liberals. He criticized college kids for drinking too much, Americans for indulging President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and academia for worshipping at the altar of diversity. He could be pedantic: When the staff wrote an editorial worrying over the future of the Tasty, a sandwich shop in Harvard Square, Cotton wrote to dissent that the real reason to keep the shop open was not that it was the only 24-hour restaurant available, but because a "better approach is to defend The Tasty ... in the name of community good will and to advocate a capitalist approach to restaurants in the Square."

He wrote in favor of covenant marriage and against feminist opposition to it. In the op-ed, Cotton surveyed some of the women he went to college with about their greatest hopes and fears. The answers, he said, were uniform: Women most feared being divorced or left by their husbands, and most hoped for a happy life and marriage. He concluded: "Feminists who allegedly speak for women should attack divorce, not its effects. If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women."

In his final column, Cotton reflected on his contrarian stance. "Only last weekend I was characterized (good-naturedly) as someone who would like to have lived a century or two ago. I suppose that comports with my acknowledged contrarian sympathies, though it is not simply correct," he wrote. "I probably appreciate the alien world revealed in Plato's dialogues and Jane Austen's novels more than most others do. But it is because of this appreciation, not in spite of it, that I also probably appreciate our world and the possibilities of it more than most others do."

3 posted on 12/12/2013 11:27:56 AM PST by Baynative (Wake me up early, be good to my dogs and teach my children to pray.)
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To: rarestia
I was pasting and put the wrong text in the reply to you.

I wanted to comment on you saying you'd be "publicly upbraiding Nancy Pelosi on the House floor", by saying that I am part of a growing number of Americans who are ready to throw out the "good friend across the aisle" rubbish and start fighting fire with fire.

4 posted on 12/12/2013 11:30:33 AM PST by Baynative (Wake me up early, be good to my dogs and teach my children to pray.)
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To: rarestia

Wow !


8 posted on 12/12/2013 11:36:27 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: rarestia
I’d be the Congressman publicly upbraiding Nancy Pelosi on the House floor.

Hell, that would make you an Awesome congress person.
17 posted on 12/12/2013 12:07:56 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: rarestia

I too hate PC, hate office politics and I make it known about my disgust with certain groups when it arises and it always does, I hate people who are offended by anything (including my bumper stickers) and I’m known sarcastically as Mr. Sensitivity.

I made it into the Program Management arena by surrounding myself with like minded individuals who get things done. When there’s a teleconference people don’t put me on speaker phone and they know a suit & tie at a meeting doesn’t make anyone smarter.

Bottom line is it’s possible so don’t give up. You do your job, do it well and you’ll be amazed at what “upper management” will tolerate.

FYI, I’m sure I’d be reprimanded in congress because I’d be screaming “YOU LIE” daily...


18 posted on 12/12/2013 12:09:36 PM PST by maddog55
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