Will The S.S. Palin Rescue America?
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Brian M. Carney has a compelling article in which he interviews best selling British author and eminent historian, Paul Johnson. Mr. Johnson is author of “Modern Times,” a best selling history of the 20th century. The interview focuses on whether America will stay on top, and includes a wide array of Mr. Johnson’s views on current world affairs and historical figures and events.
While I highly recommend reading the piece, if only for the sense of optimism and inspiring message for America Mr. Johnson brings, I found something else interesting. Johnson offers his view of the Tea Party and Governor Sarah Palin:
Pessimists, he points out, have been predicting America’s decline “since the 18th century.” But whenever things are looking bad, America “suddenly produces these wonderful things—like the tea party movement. That’s cheered me up no end. Because it’s done more for women in politics than anything else—all the feminists? Nuts! It’s brought a lot of very clever and quite young women into mainstream politics and got them elected. A very good little movement, that. I like it.” Then he deepens his voice for effect and adds: “And I like that lady—Sarah Palin. She’s great. I like the cut of her jib.”
The former governor of Alaska, he says, “is in the good tradition of America, which this awful political correctness business goes against.” Plus: “She’s got courage. That’s very important in politics. You can have all the right ideas and the ability to express them. But if you haven’t got guts, if you haven’t got courage the way Margaret Thatcher had courage—and [Ronald] Reagan, come to think of it. Your last president had courage too—if you haven’t got courage, all the other virtues are no good at all. It’s the central virtue.”
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