Choosing Leaders Who Win 

   Does anyone other than Confederate sympathizers have a problem with Gen. U.S. Grant taking the fight to Lee's army? Grant was a drinker, who would have been overlooked in peacetime. (Although, we did elect this hero president.)

   Does anyone other than Nazis have a problem with Gen. George Patton, the one American general that German officers feared? This vulgar-talking eccentric normally would not have kept his rank.

   We are in a different war, ongoing since the 1960s. The political Left - not centrist Democrats - is engaged in what one author calls "a knife fight," where the only rules are those of the late Saul Alinsky.

   Until now, the Right hasn't engaged the fight. Think George W. Bush, quiet dignity. John McCain, collegiality. Mitt Romney, propriety. 

   They and other Republicans before them received the same blistering attacks. 

   Today, the combative Left cleverly asks if we're not bothered by Donald Trump's lack of decorum, or his remarks which fail the dignity test. (Not that they care.) 

   Evan Sayet, whose July 2017 column is the basis for this blog, says we have tried dignity, decorum and compromise without effect. 

   Does anyone other than the Left have a problem with a fighter in the White House? We saw him as a roughneck during the primaries in 2016. 

   But, like Grant and Patton, he fights for America. The Left fears his undignified backbone.

                            Jimmy

Evan Sayet