You can take ANY philosopher/leader and say they had good points EXCEPT FOR.
The whole country of Germany was swayed by EXCEPT FOR.
The whole country of Italy was swayed by EXCEPT FOR.
I used to support Bill Bennett wholeheartedly.
He let me down (as Cheney would say, "BIGTIME!!!")
You can take ANY philosopher/leader and say they had good points EXCEPT FOR. The whole country of Germany was swayed by EXCEPT FOR. The whole country of Italy was swayed by EXCEPT FOR.
All human beings make mistakes, it is the level of those mistakes that is the question, never whether or not there are exceptions to a persons character. Second, this is so ridiculous, you are comparing William Bennett to the followers Hitler and Musolini? I mean get a grip this is the kind of emotional overstatements I have to deal with when I FReep the hard left here in LA. A friend of mine used to always say "the first person to bring up the Nazi's in an arguement automatically loses."
I used to support Bill Bennett wholeheartedly.
Clearly that is an untrue statement. Wholeheartedly would entail supporting him through an embarrassing revelation about his inability to stop wasting his money irrationally, if that was enough to make you get allusions to Adolph then I'd hate to see how you supported him were he to do something really bad like sell ICBM secrets to Red China.
He let me down
Awwwwww. More evidence that you do not know the meaning of the word "wholeheartedly" because you are whining that he made it tough for you, well heaven forfend if you knew the many failings of Dubya, or his father, or even Reagan and Limbaugh. There isn't a single public figure you could point to that doesn't have embarrassing skeletons in his closet like Mr Bennett, its just that his Book of Virtues struck a HUGE nerve with the left and they took special glee in throwing the kitchen sink when this supposed contradiction came out because the liberal media is inherently IMMORAL and that loath like nothing else people pointing that out. You just weren't grounded enough to realize those criticisms could never negate the wisdom of this man's larger points. You are too worried whether or not liberals like conservatives...its never going to happen.