Don't get me wrong. Yes, I think Keyes would make a terrific Senator.
He'd bring back the days when the Senate was a debating society that aired the great issues of the day with honor.
He's the conscience of the country; and I have learned a lot and changed some views because I listened to his cogent arguments.
But I never voted for him for President, because Presidents in dangerous times have to be willing to sacrifice their reputations to defend the country properly. Same reason I'd never trust Colin Powell with the job. My personal opinion.
This role is more important than any short-term victory.
"The opportunist politician is like a man who should abandon billiards because he was beaten at billiards, and abandon golf because he was beaten at golf. There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success."We only need to look as far as the extremist homosexual and environmental movements. No extremist homosexual or environmentalist has ever won an election, but most of their legislative agenda has been implemented. Ideas define the culture. Politicians follow the culture.G.K. Chesterton
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