Insults hurtled were meant for the person knocking one of my heroes. Heard the soy boy comment from John and Ken mentioning their trips to whole foods and seeing skinny guys afraid of gluten and lamenting that if WW2 were today, we’d lose. But totally beside the point and yet an unintended consequence of my poor choice of ways to illustrate the irony of Brian criticizing Perot.

Let’s look at his resume. Boy scout to Eagle Scout in 13 months and recipient of the DESA award.

Junior college to the Naval Academy (not an easy route) and while there he was a brigade commander and one of the few people that helped establich the honor code in the academy.

My favorite accomplishment was when two of his employees were take hostage in Iran, he paid for and attended their rescue mission by hiring retired special forces veterans. Now that is how a leader of company should treat their employees, he sent them there and he got them back.

Lastly I liked his ideas, he didn’t fit into either party, he was a social liberal and fiscal conservative, a belief system without a party that I still cling to. He was pro choice, believed in federal support for planned parenthood, stricter gun control( but not total gun control and a ban on assault weapons, supported gay rights and more aids research (in 1992 in Texas he was on his own island). He was a fiscal hawk and only supported raising taxes if spending was cut as well with all proceeds going to the debt. He was against NAFTA as he felt jobs would be lost to Mexico and he din’t like foreign wars.

The man has been dead for a short time, he was a good person, and our two party system prevents some of these good people from standing a chance.