...talk about hero to zero.
I deliberately stayed off the death and tribute threads to this guy. I still remember the Freepers paying tribute to Molly Ivins upon her death, when twenty four hours earlier they would have lathered her. I'm sorry. I understand not speaking badly of the dead, but it seems hypocritical to me to lavish praise upon people who were one hundred percent servants of the libs.
This man was a political enemy of the good. He was as liberal as Ted Kennedy or Barbara Boxer, and quite smug while going about it. He may have been brave in war as a young man and quite courageous, but afterward he learned absolutely nothing, aiding and abetting our communist enemies throughout a long political career.
Our side always gives tribute to our political enemies at death. But in this case the writing is nearly identical to the tributes of NPR and elsewhere, true liberal bastions.
At least George McGovern was a decent man who though naive, was a good human being. This guy was a mean one, especially during the various media circuses of the eighties.
Please permit me to make slight correction: hero and zero. One does not negate the other.
Amen. (Your) brevity is the soul of wit.
I expressed a similar opinion in #25 below, but needed far more words to do it.