“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt actually ran for the office, twice.
Read. My. Lips.
The field sucks. The field sucks. The field sucks. That’s not my fault. That’s not Sarah Palin’s fault. That’s not the rest of her supporters’ fault. That is directly and completely their fault and their fault alone. And theirs alone to remedy. And somebody needs to say it.