Big Set

Just when you think it was safe to go back into the water, another whiner shows up.  The “do nothing” crowd is large.  And RINOs charge when threatened.  Unlike in the wild, Hall County RINOs run in heards.

I keep reading about people “saying” and “asking” and “telling” me lots of things in public forum(s).  I read about things “said” and “done” at our own executive committee meetings.  The only problem is:  almost all these things were not actually said, asked, told, or done.  These reports are like a tabloid–all rumor and gossip.  Apparently the sayer, asker, teller, and doer was ashamed or afraid to say, ask, tell, or do anything to my face.  (The lone exception was former GOP Chairman P. Martin Ellard who was upset about the State Court Judge race.  I’ll give Martin his props for being man enough to come to me directly with his concerns.)

For all othe other gripers and carpers (who whine and mutter under their breath from a safe distance) I have the following quote for you:

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Oh and at the top is a picture of what a big set looks like.

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