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"What a small thought. FreeRepublic deserves better."

I would not actually vote for Ralph Nader, but if Jeb runs I already know he doesn't have the steel to stand up to the courts if it is necessary.

Hopefully, he is out of the running anyways and my comment is moot.

But still, the man has demonstrated that he lacks the courage to challenge injustice. Why is it 'small' to say I won't support him?

Dwight Eisenhower challeneged segregation which was lawful and legal according to many courts.

Abraham Lincoln issued an Executive Order to end slavery even though his Supreme Court had ruled slavery was perfectly legal.

George Washington stood up to his legal and sovereign government and fought it by force of arms despite orders from Parliament and the Crown (Washington was a Colonel in the Royal Army) to cease and desist and turn himself in for a court martial.

Of course, these small-minded men should have obeyed their lawful orders and the decisions of the courts and then worked within the system for change.

Yeah, right.

"Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that know not victory or defeat."

President Theodore Roosevelt said this.

I have not one damn doubt that TR would've personally gone to Florida to save Terri Schiavo and then DARED the courts to oppose him. Hell, he'd have ARRESTED the judge who gave the order.

Because it is the right thing to do no matter what the cost.

The Bush boys do not have the steel their father had. They are soft and they care only for what the polls have to say.

If 90% of Americans said it was right to save the woman they'd do it.

But that is not leadership. Consensus is the abdication of leadership. Leadership is doing the right thing even when everyone else says it is wrong.

If 88% of Americans said it was okay to kill Jews what would you expect the Bush boys to do?

What if the courts ordered it? Then what?

That is not an irrational question as it has happened before.

Sorry, if my President is going to act like a spineless liberal I'd just as soon have a spineless liberal as President as opposed to someone who puts on a good show of being a good man but then bends in the first breeze.

At least the liberal would be honest about being a liberal.

George W. Bush is not honest when he calls himself a conservative and then acts like a liberal.