Hehehe... I wonder if her stump speeches are as ridden with nautical references as her literature...
"My fellow Americans,
It has been almost four hundreds years since our brave forefathers placed their trust in the sturdy ship
Mayflower and cast their lot over the oceans, searching for freedom and a better life beyond the roiling horizon of the grey Atlantic, buoyed by their faith. And while their physical journey came to a rest on the eastern coast of this, the land of opportunity, in many ways the ideological voyage they set upon has never truly ended. It carries on to this day in the hearts and minds of every man, woman and child who dare stands up and claim the liberty which is their due inheritence.
No one would claim it has been an easy voyage. We have been rocked repeatedly by great waves of social change, divided against ourselves by a mutiny belowdecks, and weathered the great squalls of the world at war. And looking at this great country today, I cannot but think that we have gone off course at some point. This is not the free, open sea we ought to be sailing; instead, we have run aground upon the shoals of government interventionism, and our hull creaks and groans beneath the burdensome weights of taxation and regulation. The moral rudder of our ancestors has split, the values which anchored them lost to the depths. Our captain, the presidency, does not guide the vessel with steady and light hand, but has become a veritable tyrant aboard ship, screaming his dictates across the deck with his legal cat o' nine tails, barging into our cabins and presuming to tell us how we should live our lives down to the smallest detail, far usurping his legitimate authority. Our politicians have forgotten that they are the mere midshipmen of this voyage, guarding against the threats of predatory sharks in the waters and bellicose thunderclouds in the distance. Yes, truly, at some point in our history true freedom was been cast overboard; our brave flag hangs limp in the doldrums of bureaucracy in which we have become mired.
Yet, hark! do not abandon ship now! Do you not see the sun shining on the horizon, glittering on the blue expanse before us? That is the future, my friends, and it waits for us to conquer it, if only we have the courage to stop this incessant, futile fiddling with the rigging and tack boldly into the wind. So join me now, and billow your sails with hope and determination! United, we can put remind the politicians that they are merely stewards transporting us towards the true fulfillment of the twin promises of freedom and independance, our bulkhead and bulwark. Watch those fears and depencies wou've been taught to cling to pass by to port and starboard, this bilge weighting our vessel down, and see them sink to the darkness of Davy Jones' Locker where they belong. Join me now, standing proudly at the bow of this great ship that is the American dream! Divided, we founder; but all hands working together, we can steer this beautiful vessel back onto its bearing, towards the promised shore once again!
God bless America!"
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
You know, as in "For purple mountain majesties/ Above the fruited plain/".
