Today's Politicos vs The Words and Deeds of The Founders

Someone who always needs to be in control hates uncontrollable situations. He can function admirably with a handpicked audience, a teleprompter, and a carefully crafted set, but seems lost with ad hoc questions and only a podium for a prop.

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Who knew that when Mitt Romney said those four words, “I love Big Bird,” it would have caused such a stir? Of course, he mentioned Big Bird in relation to ending federal subsidies to PBS. President Obama and his liberal base were outraged. Apparently liberals can’t get through a week without their subsidized episodes of (Best of) Joy of Painting or Sewing with Nancy. Naturally, Big Bird got all the press and, in an effort to relive Obama’s stellar debate performance, his campaign spent the next week talking about little else.

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Several of our trusty WWTFT authors are on vacation this week, including yours truly. Lest you begin to experience the pangs of WWTFT withdrawal, we humbly offer you some pointers to great conservative commentary from elsewhere in the blogosphere.

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It turns out the person who won the debate was the only guy on stage whose salary we don’t currently pay, Mitt Romney.

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Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul. The only serious aspect of politics is its relation to morality.

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Romney should forget about the focus groups and talk to America as adults. Take a tip from Ronald Reagan in 1980 and tell American what it needs to hear.

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In Harry Reid's words, Barak Obama speaks with "no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Apparently he found it convenient in this 2007 address.

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Dr. Leon Aron lectures on the power of ideas and their role in the demise of the Soviet Union.

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Here's a blast from the past. What a breath of fresh air.

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This is the story of the way an empire – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – ended. While much of the rest of he world was celebrating Christmas, the Soviet Union quietly slipped beneath the waters of history. After a cynical effort to replace the Union with a federation, the territories over which the USSR claimed dominion floated away, leaving only Russia bobbing in their wake.

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