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Blithering nonsense, like the suggestion that a politician ""advancing his career"" is an insult. Hamilton's own generation indeed spent a great deal of time asserting that politicians did not have careers nor advance them; but were bashful Cincinnati, feebly resisting the importunities of their friends. We are not writing for the eighteenth century, but for the twentyfirst; we need not keep up the act, especially when discussing such comparatively modern politicians as Lodge or Vandenberg; it would of course be equally true of Democrats like Cleveland or Bryan or Truman.  

The suggestion that this is a liberal POV displays all too clearly the defensive partisanship that Equinox brings to this discussion.  PMAnderson "