I am a lousy diplomat. That’s why I was a staffer and ghosted books.

My forte is plain talk. People say they like that, but in the real world they hate it and they don’t care what a politician does as long as he remembers their name and says what they want to hear.

Then they bitch about the politicians they elect.

The e-mail I sent out below is an example of what one should not do if he has spent a lifetime fighting side by side with people and doing things for their cause and finally needs the help he has earned.

I have X in the place of each name. Two of them are national columnists and you would recognize at least one of the other names immediately. But I have been on the road for a month, and gotten nothing for it. I am exhausted and pissed, and that is what my Blog is for.

My WOL readers have been just as bad.

X and X,

I begged you for addresses to send FREE books to you in Stormfront and you ignored me. But you are not alone.

I begged two people I have worked with for years, X and X for help. I put X in my 1982 anthology for St. Martin’s Press and he uses my columns in every issue of X. I put X in that anthology when he was a private school teacher here in South Carolina.

You can see what right-wing “contacts” are worth in the letter I sent to X and X below:

X and X,

I have a great team of young people working on the book and a young genius for a webmaster. But they keep asking me about my “contacts.”

I want to send him X’s e-mails to show them what my “contacts” are worth. But X is the best. He at least bothers to reply to me.

X, can I do that?

(Another) X hasn’t mentioned me or even contacted me on the book.

I don’t know if I am up to “begging” X, as X recommended.

I can’t even get their own addresses out of people I have done favors for and who asked me for book copies.

I am now starting an op-ed factory with some excellent young writers. Meanwhile the old farts talk to each other abut “reaching young people.”

It’s a bit embarrassing for me, but it is a good lesson for the young people who are coming to me for leadership. One asked me if there was a support network for young people on the right. My answer was a simple: “No.” They’re busy talking to each other and being Big Guys and being busy, busy, busy.

Bob (Whitaker)