> He is the quintessential product and embodiment of what passes for
> "activism" in
>the "heart of America" and the paranoid style that permeates it - an
>ex-Marine, a small town journalist turned CPA turned politico, a "concerned
>citizen" and a self-righteous defender of the "homeland" against "foreign
>hordes."
What do you mean by "heartland"? Gilchrist is a conservative Catholic who lives in an affluent retirement community in Orange County, California, a Republican stronghold filled with rich white people where, Ronald Reagan said, "good Republicans go to die".