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Bill Rusher, the longtime publisher of National Review, always used to give new staffers at NR this simple piece of advice:
They'll disappoint you because A) they are politicians, and politicians have to disappoint their biggest fans in order to get reelected or get things done, and because B) they are human beings built from the crooked timber of humanity. I don't want any more cults of personality for a while. I want a reliably and philosophically conservative candidate who will be able to get things done and who feels like he's got to dance with the conservatives who brought him. If that person is Sarah Palin, I'm for Sarah Palin. If it's Mitch Daniels, I'm for Mitch Daniels. And so on. I haven't made up my mind about who that person is, yet. But I would like to make that call as unemotionally as possible. Let's save the emotion for what is good in life: crushing our enemies, seeing them driven before us, and hearing the lamentations of the women.
"Politicians will always disappoint you"
They'll disappoint you because A) they are politicians, and politicians have to disappoint their biggest fans in order to get reelected or get things done, and because B) they are human beings built from the crooked timber of humanity. I don't want any more cults of personality for a while. I want a reliably and philosophically conservative candidate who will be able to get things done and who feels like he's got to dance with the conservatives who brought him. If that person is Sarah Palin, I'm for Sarah Palin. If it's Mitch Daniels, I'm for Mitch Daniels. And so on. I haven't made up my mind about who that person is, yet. But I would like to make that call as unemotionally as possible. Let's save the emotion for what is good in life: crushing our enemies, seeing them driven before us, and hearing the lamentations of the women.
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