Saturday, July 12, 2008
Cause and effect?
Seems like we've lost a lot of conservatives this year: Tony Snow, Charlton Heston, Frank O'Connell, Jesse Helms, E. Victor Milione, Robert Jastrow, and, of course, WFB.
Surveying the American political landscape, you cannot help but wonder whether some of these great conservatives just lost their will to live.
4 Comments:
By 
Escort81, at
Sat Jul 12, 11:29:00 PM:
Then they wouldn't be conservatives.
Winston Churchill, 1941:
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
I think they all accepted their own mortality and imperfections, as most people who have their head screwed on right tend to do.
By Noumenon, at
Sun Jul 13, 10:52:00 AM:
I think Hillary Clinton had them killed. Should have saved some of those favors for the primaries, Hill!
By 
, at
Sun Jul 13, 11:42:00 AM:
Certainly not Snow, most likely not Helms. But WFB evidently was more than content to meet his Maker and, like many devoted husbands, found it hard to go on without her.
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Sun Jul 13, 12:33:00 PM:
Breaking news: Everybody dies.
Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse. That was the motto of the main character in "Knock on Any Door," a 1947 novel by African-American writer Willard Motley.
(P.S. Nice comment, Escort81.)
