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| Contributor | SC Moose |
| Last Edited | SC Moose Nov 03, 2005 01:55pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, November 3, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | One reason I like people who run for political office is that, unlike most of us who go to great lengths to avoid even the slightest snub, candidates willingly risk very public rejection.
When you choose to run for office, you know that anyone you ever sat next to in high-school homeroom or double-dated with or car-pooled with will know whether you won or (more likely) lost.
Harriet Miers, after withdrawing as a nominee to be a Supreme Court justice, knows as well as Al Gore or John Kerry or Bob Dole how publicly painful and painfully public rejection can be.
As John R. Tunis once wrote, " Losing is the great American sin." But Harriet Miers, who is undoubtedly a hurting victim in this whole melodrama, and deserving of compassion and kindness, is not the loser. No, the losers are those mostly conservative posturers and pretenders who now stand exposed as political hypocrites. |
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