Leadership has absolutely nothing to do with Popularity. The person who made the biggest impact on my life personally is considered by most everybody I know as a hard ass who nobody would want to work for. But that person taught me more than anybody else and he gave me the tools to become a man. That person is my Cousin Joe who was a Vietnam Veteran and a Marine who stepped on a land mine for his Country and was spat on by the the Left when he came home. I saw it with my own eyes. Joe was like a brother to me, he was raised in our home by his mother, (my Aunt)
If there is anything I have learned in life, and what has convinced me that Conservatism is my choice of philosophy, is that.... LEADERSHIP HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH POPULARITY
I dropped out of the political scene years ago. 9-11 caused me to begin to pay attention. That is of course, when I "met" President Bush. I became more attentive but not active, until the last Presidential election.
While putting all the pieces together in my mind as to who exactly that "thing" was trying to remove my President from the WH, I also got to "know" the President much better.
Vietnam Veteran and a Marine ...
Yours was a cousin...mine is my ex. He faired better than your cousin, physically anyway, but the treatment was the same. I abhor what the same old ragamuffins are trying to repeat today. Not on my watch, not this time. I was to young and naive 35 years ago - no more.
LEADERSHIP HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH POPULARITY
Another great statement. Thanks Mike
How true Mike and in any other realm apart from politics this statement is taken as read. Whoever heard of a captain of industry or top scientist as actually being a popular man. Some might say fair with their dealings with people but the fact that they demand excellence and will not compromise means that they are rarely popular.