{"id":606,"date":"2007-08-30T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T13:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/30\/trust-our-most-valuable-commodity\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T11:35:55","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T15:35:55","slug":"trust-our-most-valuable-commodity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Trust; our most valuable commodity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know what, I&#8217;m an old-fashioned kind of guy. In my world, although I surround myself with modern luxuries and gadgets, it&#8217;s still the 1950s. My friends are all people who say what they mean &#8211; no matter whose feelings are hurt. Our discussions revolve around truthfulness and realities, not around polite niceties. There&#8217;s no sugarcoating in my world &#8211; things are what they are. If someone lies to me once, I never trust them again. If we&#8217;re in the middle of a job and a coworker flakes off on me, they never work with me again. That&#8217;s the world I grew up in and the way I know things really work successfully.<\/p>\n<p>So why that paragraph? To illustrate a principle; that being trust. I&#8217;ve found that people who lie to someone else, will usually lie to me. People who behave badly, reflect on me when I associate with them.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I held Bill Clinton in such low esteem was because his family couldn&#8217;t count on him to be there &#8211; ultimately, the country couldn&#8217;t count on him to be there when he was getting gratification from a fat chick while his duties in the Rose Garden suffered.<\/p>\n<p>I used to like Newt Gingrich alot &#8211; before the 1994 Republican Revolution -\u00c2\u00a0but his personal exploits while he was Speaker soured me on him &#8211; eternally. I&#8217;ve crossed the room to avoid him.<\/p>\n<p>I met Dick Morris socially one time and we talked for a few minutes, but\u00c2\u00a0I heard hardly a word he said because that voice in my head kept repeating &#8220;Toe sucker! Toe sucker!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now, there&#8217;s Larry &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/08\/28\/sen.craig.statement\/index.html?section=cnn_latest\" target=\"_blank\">Wide Stance<\/a>&#8221; Craig. What he was doing was pretty disgusting all by itself &#8211; but the fact that he did it while he was a US Senator makes me question his judgement. He was bold enough to make all of the gestures so common in men&#8217;s rooms across the country, that I have to believe that this wasn&#8217;t his first time. And he was fairly persistent.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care what his politics are, how valuable his occupation of his Senate seat is to Republicans, or even how staunchly he supports every one of my issues &#8211; I don&#8217;t trust him because he has poor judgement.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what separates us from the Democrats &#8211; they&#8217;re willing to continue to put their trust in morally bankrupt, corrupt, murdering, racist, lying,\u00c2\u00a0raping\u00c2\u00a0thieves\u00c2\u00a0(I know my readers can name a Democrat to fit in each category I&#8217;ve listed so I won&#8217;t) &#8211; but we Republicans have principles.<\/p>\n<p>We need to send a message to all of the other Republicans who might have a wide stance that we don&#8217;t tolerate deviant behavior in our party (public bathroom sex is deviant,\u00c2\u00a0I don&#8217;t care who you&#8217;re doing it with). Craig has to go. Now. No discussion, no statements, no apologies. Just. Go.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street Journal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2007\/08\/29\/sen-craig-pushed-from-committee-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wire<\/a> reports that Craig has lost his committee positions, but that&#8217;s not quite enough &#8211; get gone, Lar. <a href=\"http:\/\/crotchetyoldbastard.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/craig_should_resign.html\" target=\"_blank\">Crotchety Old Bastard<\/a> lists other dastardly deeds committed by Democrats for whom we&#8217;re still waiting letters to resign.\u00c2\u00a0But it&#8217;s only a partial list &#8211; trust me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know what, I&#8217;m an old-fashioned kind of guy. 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