Peggy Noonan, one of my favorite columnists, has stepped down from her Wall Street Journal position in order to help the Republican party. She feels that now more than ever requires personal sacrifice in order to win the war on terror, and that our best hope of winning the war is if the Republican Party wins in November. I think she’s spot on, and I applaud her sacrifice and look forward to her columns after the election.
She describes conservatism this way:
Everyone who reads me knows I am a political conservative, by which I mean I adhere to a particular philosophy, a way of viewing life and man and his time on earth. I do not think a lot of modern conservatives have taken on their philosophy because they were brought up in it, schooled in it, and swallowed it whole. And I don’t think a lot of them became conservatives because they read a book by Hayek or Adam Smith and thought, “Ah ha, this seems sound!” I think a lot of people in our time who have become conservatives did it because they had a certain and particular kind of mind. To choose just one facet, they have a natural respect and even sometimes love toward human beings, while at the same time having no illusions–none–about who we are. Man is not perfect and is not perfectible, at least by other men. We are what we are; God made us and gave us freedom; we use it to ill and good; man best operates through certain arrangements and traditions, and those arrangements and traditions are best animated by respect for the individual and love of liberty.
Thank you for your sacrifice, Peggy.
Chasing the Wind 
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