Mistakes Matter

To the editor:

When time is short and tooth is long, things we’ve learned so dearly from our mistakes are a measure of wisdom ever lost to the practically perfect among us. How is it then that our politics favors the art of looking wise while never having to admit to a mistake? It seems not at all a fair fight that the tyrants of the world, who gained power by surviving a gauntlet of dire consequences, are matched against those we elect that are all hat and no cattle. Our latest being a champion for flower power and windmills — who brags on riding the train while owning a fine stable of mansions well stocked with fast cars, and who learned how to be a tough talker by facing up to “CornPop” at the swimming pool.

Instead, the effete Liberals who champion any dimension of moral and social perversion as showing their “equity,” line up more attorneys general and DA’s than might comprise a JAG regiment in order to “get” the candidate and former president whose long years in business helped him to do a better job than most in his first term. Give us a man who learned from his mistakes to become better and stronger, over a man whose biggest mistake was believing a life lived only for politics would produce a strong leader instead of a corrupt senile old fool.

Don Carpenter Schulenburg