No, what I am say is that before you criticize with such bold accusations is that maybe you should have the guts to step into the fire.
Can you even imagine what it must be like, to fall under the fire of the press, your life, you values? Could you defend them any better than the current crop of candidates?
We all sit here and wonder why we don't have good people run for office, I am suggesting that no one need to look past this forum to answer that question.
There is a lot of truth in that. The mainstream media folks are experts at utterly destroying conservative candidates while protecting liberal ones.
Nevertheless, we need conservative leaders to take that licking and then keep on ticking. I'm not talking about you, me, or the barber down the street. I'm talking about our leaders.
Let me give you an example. Cain's 9-9-9 plan was not perfect, but it was good, very good.
While Cain was a candidate, people talked about that plan, not only on national TV, but around the water cooler at work. Cain was making a difference! Maybe that awful tax code really could be reformed! And the longer Cain remained a national figure, the more 9-9-9 influenced the national discussion.
Then Cain quit. I'm sure he had his reasons, but when he quit, 9-9-9 became just a footnote in history.
What could have transformed the American tax system is now just a trivia question on Jeopardy. And that really bothers me.