National Security Danger Bump.
Worth pointing out to the most vexed of the Libertarians, and fellow constitutionalists who are breathing fire to abstain from voting for GWB.
The consequences are so dire, it is frightening. Which needs to be stressed to Karl Rove and Andrew Card when they so cavalierly risk their base with alienating triangulations.
As even the democrat Zell Miller has said, we need to put party aside and do the things the nation requires. Such sensibility is completely lost on the RATs.
As for the GOP, its leaders should all be forced to read about USAF Col. John Boyd.
In his biography “Boyd, The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War,” Robert Coram reports John Boyd’s “To Be or To Do” speech, which the colonel would give his disciples. Doing the right thing would neither ensure success nor garner rewards, Boyd said.
“One day you will come to a fork in the road. And you’re going to have to make a decision about what direc- tion you want to go.”
Boyd would raise his hand and point. “If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make com- promises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments.” Then Boyd would raise his other hand and point another direction. “Or you can go that way and you can do something — something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself.
“If you decide to do something, you may not get pro- moted and you may not get the good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won’t have to compromise yourself. You will be true to your friends and to yourself. And your work might make a difference.”
Boyd would pause and stare. “To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?”