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GIVE ME A COWBOY IN A WHITE HAT ANY DAY!
Yes, give me a Cowboy in a white hat, today, tomorrow, or any day. Give me a man of principle, one from out of the old west, self-reliant, one who takes on a job and sees it through, one who stands up to the bad guys and takes them on and out, one who goes against the odds and still beats them, one who picks the prettiest girl out of the crowd and wins her.

He may not be the world's greatest orator, but when he says something, it's sure to be straightforward and it "ain't" difficult to get the meaning. Yep, he may remind us of Gene Autry, Tom Mix, Randy Scott, John Wayne, Buck Jones, Hop'along Cassidy and Joel McCrea all rolled ijnto one, but that's okay. You get the idea. They were our heroes, and they stood for what was right and what was good. That's the way we'd like to think of our country. The guys who sell everything out in Ohio, load up the covered wagon, put the family aboard, hitch up two oxen, and head out west. Nothing ahead but the wild and wooly west, but somehow, we'll make it through. Yeah, even Alan Ladd wore that white hat and gave us a lot of inspiration.

Some of those eastern Liberals, or Berkeley Free Speechers might try to make it seem as if there's something wrong with a guy that moves ahead and leads. They hate a cowboy who can go to their most exacting school and graduate! They're going to pull out the bricks from the Yale quadrangle and the old Harvard ivy-covered buildings because a Texas cowboy got his education there. They want us to believe that a fighting spirit was lost 100 years ago in America, and that we're losers. They want us to suck the goverment teats for our sustenance. They want us to believe in a Ted Kennedy, who leaves a young woman behind in a car overturned in a river, drowning, or a navy officer who dirties his uniform and throws away his medals and belittles the bravery and sacrifices of his comrades.

They hate the Cowboy in the White hat; it drives them nuts to see one succeed, like Ronald Reagan succeeded, they hate one with morals. They hate one who follows the path, taking the right road rather than the wrong one. But one thing we all know, that we can depend upon those men in the white hats, the old Texas Rangers, to be there when it counts, to stand with us, to go to the forefront and lead, and not to shirk their duty when they have to face up to it. They want us to believe that the defence of liberty and freedom is wrong, that government has all the answers and the individual has none. They want us to surrender our freedoms for a mess of pottage. They want us to just give up...to give up what our forefathers fought and won for us, to simply fade into a world community that has no real direction, that has no sense of ideals, that has no unity of purpose, that has nothing to offer us but a paucity of ideas and a scarcity of ideals. They want us to join in a column that follows behind such leaders as: Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and Chou en Lai.

Me? I'll take the Cowboy in the White Hat any day. I know that he'll carry the Red, White and Blue in his heart and soul, that he'll risk his life to do what is right and to defend justice, that he'll stand by those who need his help, and that he'll tip that white hat to a lady but he will never take it off to any other man in subservience, except for a few minutes when it comes time to face his enemy and fight. When the fight's over, he'll put it back on and go home. That's the Cowboy in the White Hat, the man we'll respect as a leader and the one we'll all follow into battle when it becomes necessary.

Yep, I'll take the Cowboy in the White Hat any day, my friend, any day!
by Howard E. Morseburg 3/18/04