Kristol not going gently
By MAGGIE HABERMAN |
12/26/11 10:24 PM EST
Despite the late hour and voting about to start, William Kristol pleads for someone else to jump into the race, and for those who took a pass to reconsider:
...[I]t is a moment, as you prepare to cast your vote, for others to reflect on whether they don’t owe it to their country to step forward. As this is no time for voters to choose fecklessly, it is no time for leaders to duck responsibility. Those who have stood aside — and who now may have concluded, as they may not have when they announced their original decision, that the current field is lacking — will surely hear the words of Thomas Paine echoing down the centuries: “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” Now is not a time for leaders to engage in clever calculations of the odds of success, or to succumb to concerns about how they will look if they enter the fray and fall short. Now is a time to come to the aid of our country.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2011/12/kristol-not-going-gently-108746.html
DO SOMETHING!
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