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IN DEFENSE OF BORING MEN

Friday, April 29th, 2011

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR

By on 4.28.11

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Daniels erased a $200 million dollar deficit and turned it into a surplus, reformed state government, and reduced the total number of state employees to their lowest number since Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was top of the charts. Daniels is currently taking on the teachers’ unions with education reform. On federal issues he warns the U.S. faces a new “Red Menace” as devastating as the former Soviet Army, only this time the menace is the red ink of debt. He defended Paul Ryan’s budget plan as “the first serious proposal” of either party to tackle the looming debt tsunami, and derided those who criticized it without offering a substantive alternative as “unserious” men.

The fact that young women frequently fall for bad boys is something that every good guy knows. It’s also something our society immortalizes in popular culture: Juliet fell for Romeo; Joanie fell for Chachi; Diane fell for Sam; Buffy fell for Angel; and Bella for Edward. In the movies and on television, it generally works out okay. In real life, it’s generally drugs, disease, despair, divorce and parental heartbreak, which is why, knowing what challenges lie ahead and the value of a solid partner, parents ask, “Why couldn’t you just fall for the nice guy?”

Right now, polls show many conservative voters, at least temporarily, falling for the bad boy in the form of billionaire celebrity Donald Trump. A main reason cited for this is the “bland” or “boring” slate of potential GOP candidates. They’re not dynamic, dangerous or sexy enough to attract their eye. But conservatives have long prided themselves as belonging to the party of reason and dismissed the Democrats as the party of emotion, so expect these feelings to subside. (more…)

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