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Gamecock on Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:27:06 PM
Mark and Annabelle Robertson are two of Gamecock's best friends. Mark serves in the United States Air Force and just recently returned from an overseas deployment in the War Theatre.
Mark's wife, and mother of their two lovely Southern belle children,
Annabelle, is not only the author of possibly the best and funniest prose about The South and marriage since Faulkner, Grizzard and Bombeck, i.e. her newly released, The Southern Girl's Guide to the Newlywed Years, but is also one of the prime author's of
Gamecock's Summer 2001 "Conservative Epiphany.
Buying the book supports not only Annabelle (who also blogs at Crosswalk.com) and the girls' troop, but also many more troops that are supported by Mark in his work.
Then self identified liberal Democrat Mike "Gamecock" DeVine, offered a legal writing gig in addition to his corporate work, met Annabelle Robertson at The (Decatur, Ga.) Champion newspaper office almost immediately upon moving to Atlanta in the Summer of 2001 to pursue corporate work after many years in private practice as a trial lawyer. I was immediately intrigued by the Metro Atlanta journalist who had matriculated at a Swiss law school in the French language, but who now had no accent.
(I later found out that she was a Tar Heel by birth, and being a Sandlapper just south of the NC border immediately understood the mastery of the English language similar to my own kind in the Palmetto State.)
The next thing I was intrigued by were Annabelle's, and later her Yankee husband's unapologetic conservative views. I was especially shocked and impressed by Annabelle's back of the hand rebuff of an offhand approving comment I made about former President Bill Clinton.
She referred to him as a sex addict.
Not many hens over the years were so blunt with Gamecock. And so, like Moses upon seeing the bush not consumed by fire, Gamecock said to himself and those within earshot:
"Let us go look at this thing."
This thing turned out to be not only a vivaciously beautiful writer, mother and wife of a great man, but also a wise woman of faith and a strong conservative republican.
Probably no other single individual played a greater role in bringing out the inner conservative in this rooster. She was my C.S. Lewis on conservative apologetics. GC needed to hear the logic not only from books and history, but also from the lips of one who shared space with me among the politically correct brainwashed heathens of Atlanta.
A former attorney and a longtime Republican, Annabelle campaigned extensively for Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush while living in Geneva, Switzerland. As an officer with Republicans Abroad, she rallied and helped register Americans living overseas, encouraging them to vote GOP.
A Southern Girl at heart, Annabelle then returned home and spent many years
down South before moving to California – “the land of fruits and nuts,” as she calls it – in 2005, courtesy of the United States Air Force. Her husband left his position as a high-profile emergency room chaplain in Atlanta so that he could lend his extensive trauma experience to the troops.
He has just returned from his first overseas deployment and expects to return next year. Meanwhile Annabelle, a fulltime freelance journalist and the mother of two small children, is holding down the fort on the West Coast.
The Southern Girl’s Guide is her first book. It is the 2006 recipient of the USA Best Books Award, in the humor category. For more information, visit www.SouthernGirlsGuide.com, where you can watch a video of Annabelle and download the first chapter. Annabelle is available as a speaker for your corporate, political or religious event.
See her website (above) for more details.
Please support our troops by buying a copy of The Southern Girl’s
Guide.
A portion of all proceeds will be donated to the Republican Party.
Oh, and don’t let the title fool you – this is not a book for just newlyweds. In fact, it’s for anyone who has ever been remotely interested in a member of the opposite sex, and who could use a little interpretation. Not only that, but gentlemen, Gamecock promises that if you buy this for your wife/girlfriend, you’ll be the happiest man on the block. You see, Annabelle advocates a reward system for all that work you’ve been doing (or need to do) around the house. And not just any rewards, either. Rewards that men REALLY enjoy (if you know what I mean). So don’t miss out. It may be your only chance to make you and the Missus happy at once – a seemingly impossible task, now made easy, thanks to The Southern Girl’s Guide. There are far worse things in life.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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