Your brave heart deserves and has earned my respect and admiration. At my age, hunkering down in defensive posture seems the wiser tack. Please let me know if you ever need someone to guard your flank, mon vieux.
Merci pour les compliments, et pour l’offre.
I know - I suffered through them too. It was disheartening to watch the impeachment proceedings be characterized as about out of wedlock acts involving generative organs rather than what it was really about: the perjury. This is fundamentally different, materially different. Gingrich recognizes that, having been inextricably involved then, trying to remove an otherwise very popular president. Have you been watching the current office holder’s popularity? He has set some new record lows, and he’s still on the decline. We might very well be doing not just ourselves a favor by being rid of him early, but him as well - he’d have more time for golfing and basketball, which is what he really seems interested in anyway. Plus there’s always the lecture circuit. College communists and academic anarchists are the ones who maybe love him the most anyway, and would love to hear more from him. And his wife would probably get even more book deals.
Listen, I know it can be draining. Have a sit in fresh spring air though and think about it, even if you end up coming to the same conclusion. Even if you just send letters in coordination with us, that’s something. Do whatever you can do. If getting your hopes up risks having them dashed, maybe again, don’t get your hopes up. Say a prayer for victory once in a while, not just for ending the current suffering. That’s something, even if sometimes it feels like nothing. It might come long after both of us are gone, but we’ve still got some time here to see.