en at home “he always talked bawdy, because in that all men could join.” (Compare Vernon Jordan’s answer to a question about the content of his informal conversations with President Clinton: “We talk p—y.”) Politically he was brilliant, bold, and fearless, and took no prisoners. His was, to be sure, an age when politics was a contact sport — had only just ceased to be a lethal one, in fact. Walpole himself, while leader of the opposition early in his career, was impeached for corruption, expelled from the House of Commons, and imprisoned in the Tower of London. He later made a vast amount of money in the dubious speculative-investment frenzy of 1720, from which he salvaged his own reputation at the expense of his chancellor (i.e,Toms Shoes Sale. treasury secretary), who went to the Tower. Walpole’s enemies asserted that his foreign policy deferred disgracefully to Britain’s old religious (read: ideological) enemies, France and Spain (read: Russia and China). It all bounced off Sir Robert like so much Lewinsky. A perfect cynic, he believed that all declarations of principle or of concern for the nation were bogus. Men were, he believed, motivated solely by personal interest. Among the phrases attributed to him in dictionaries of quotations are: “the balance of power” and “all men have their price.” His proudest boast was that he had kept his country out of wars: “Madam,” he informed George the Second’s wife, Caroline, in 1734,Toms Shoes Outlet, “there are 50,000 men slain this year in Europe, and not one Englishman.” In many ways, Sir Robert was a deplorable man; yet his country did very well under his stewardship, laying down secure foundations for 150 years of world leadership. His party, of course, did even better. 56 years in power! — that would be 14 presidential elections. It could happen. It may be that we conservatives of today are a wilderness generation, who can hope for no more than to keep a small flame burning while Clinton, Gore and those who follow their example in philosophy and method bestride our age like Colossi. I weep to think of it, but it could be so. When compiling your Christmas lists this fall, perhaps a suitable gift for your favorite conservative might be a well-bound copy of Boswell’s Life of Johnson.[标签:标题]
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