[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

The politics of personality over principle leads to personality cults and then to a dictatorship.

My candidate Fred Thompson came out with the most exhaustive and impressive set of postion papers of any candidate. It was virtually ignored.

[rob777]

"My candidate Fred Thompson came out with the most exhaustive and impressive set of postion papers of any candidate. It was virtually ignored."


Fred was my candidate as well. The problem is that we have become a nation of personality worship with a short attention span. The political campaign style that focuses on personalities, while I admit is effective, is also part of our problem. I just do not see how we solve this problem by becoming part of it. Sure, it may give us a short term political victory, but in the long run we would be aiding and abetting a process that is slowly destroying our culture.