Hang Right Politics

I am twenty years old, and have been an active Republican since the age of fifteen. At the time, I was spurred to conservatism by an utter disgust for the lack of morality, humility, and responsibility being instilled in my young contemporaries by confused parents and a left-laden media whose influence seemed to stretch all the way up to our playboy President, Bill Clinton. As I began to follow the news and fill my time with independent reading on economics, politics, and philosophy, this innate admiration for great Republican leaders and the conservative cause only hardened and grew.

At the present time, I am a full-time college student in Florida, working toward a degree in Linguistics. Though this will be my first time blogging, I am a “seasoned commenter,” and have a tremendous respect for the blogosphere community. In fact, I owe almost entirely my interest in the field of linguistics to another blogger, Amritas, who inspired me years ago when I first ran across his blog.

I believe I am able to offer the fine readers of Hang Right Politics a unique Republican perspective, in that I have struggled with religious faith throughout my entire life — though I greatly admire devout persons, I have never been able to manage such myself — and am now fairly comfortable as a Deist. My opinions have never been grounded in a religion, but rather stem from my long-held belief in the virtues of personal responsibility — the necessity of a person to look out for his or her own self and family, and to not rely on Big Brother.

My influences and heroes are quite varied, but a short list follows: Winston Churchill, George Patton, Napoleon Bonaparte, Christopher Hitchens, Abraham Lincoln, Victor Davis Hanson, John Keegan, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ronald Reagan, Marc Hideo Miyake, Cicero, Yukio Mishima, George W. Bush, and my mother, Rose.

Of those unfortunate enough to occupy a place on my “bad list,” Nancy Pelosi, J.K. Rowling and people who like to read J.K. Rowling (OK, I’m only half-joking about those), Chris Matthews, John Murtha, and Noam Chomsky reside at the forefront.