The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. The fact is, it was the liberal wing of the Democratic Party that ended segregation. The fact is that it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who gave hope to a nation that was in despair and could have slid into dictatorship. I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Time is on our side.
I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine. And, if not shot or hanged, you'll get knighted. In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat.