One of my favorites, from a movie chock-a-block full of great lines:
“We’re not saying anything new here today. We’re just saying what needs to be said, again and again, with fierce conviction.”
According to Myrna Blythe, Senator Rick Santorum has enough of the right stuff to say what needs to be said.
There was no buoyant “campaign speak” that the group might have expected to hear. Instead, he was sober and very intense as he talked about what he said was “the biggest issue facing our children’s future, the world war we are now fighting, which, at its heart, is just like the previous three global struggles.”
Unlike the president, he said, he does not call our current conflict the War on Terror. That, he maintained, would be like saying the Second World War was just “a war against blitzkrieg.” Rather, he said we should name the enemy we are fighting, not the tactics they employ. “Our world-wide enemy is Islamic Fascism.” But, he also said, “we are unable to come to terms with this terrible reality.”
And K-Lo calls him Senator Do-the-Right-Thing.
He could have fewer headaches — and less public ones at that — as a well-paid lobbyist or lawyer. But when you ask him why the heck he wants a job that entails so much abuse and so much frustration — some of the latter caused by his own party — he responds knowingly, but with an obvious humility: “Right now is an important time in the history of our country,” he explained to me recently, with a sense of something bigger than himself he is participating in and being guided by. He believes he has made a positive contribution as a senator and has something more to offer. Going from Iraq discourse to just talking American to American, he explained that, for him, political service is just the right thing to do. And that’s what he knows he ought to do. Because that’s what we do.
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