"Gate City is more than four hundred miles from Arlington, down the long spine of mountains that marks Virginia's western border. . . . I recognize the counties, Rockbridge, Botetourt, Franklin, and others, places where my ancestors once built log cabins and scraped corn patches out of the mud before heading farther south or west."Jerry Kilgore didn't write these words. They're from the last book he read, "Born Fighting," a personal history by the former secretary of the Navy, James Webb, who sought to turn our eyes from the stereotype of the redneck and the hillbilly and establish the Scotch-Irish as the hard but romantic individualists who define the American character.
"It's about the heritage of fighting for what we believe," Kilgore tells me when I ask what he gleaned from the book.
Hey, I finally agree with Jerry Kilgore on something - Jim Webb fights for what he believes in! Nice that Kilgore recognizes this fact. Can we expect an endorsement coming soon?
You know the Republicans have to hate it!
We can find stuff they said (and did) and remind them about it.