A governor with a chest?

Paula Bolyard wishes the U.S. was being led by a man with a chest, instead of by a Pajama Boy. She uses this quote:

“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

Bolyard continues:

Perry, the gun-slinging, tough-talking, God-fearing Texas governor, reminds us of what we’ve been missing: for too long we’ve had a president without a chest. In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis imagines a dystopian future without objective truth and divorced from natural law, where “men without chests” rule by their own unreflected whims and according to their own selfish motives. It seems we’ve arrived at that future, or dangerously close to it.

Please read more here.

Paula posts this 2010 speech by Perry as an example of a governor with a chest.


I am not convinced about how wonderful Texas is. I lived in Texas from 1958-1964. It was the time of civil rights passions. I found a lot of bigotry. I was glad to leave to go to graduate school in Kansas in 1964, and have not been back.