[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Liked to postscript in which the author notes that lying through your teeth is a career enhancement for Democrat politicians. For Republicans, it’s supposed to be a career killer to even suggest a “credential" which is irrelevant to the job. Saying you “played high school football” when you weren’t on the team in your senior year, and were never a starter? Gasp! Stop the presses!

I could say I “played high school football” too - if you count the time I replaced a starter at the end of the last game of my sophomore year, when the game was in hand and the crowd was being given the opportunity to cheer the starter, a senior, off the field. The sum total of my “varsity football career."

[bkepley]

I could say I “played high school football” too - if you count the time I replaced a starter at the end of the last game of my sophomore year

I don't follow you. I was never a starter but I have no problem saying I played. Liked it too. I was at the time undersized. The coaches were idiots who only looked at your size.