June 27, 2018
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
TO LEAD A LIFE WORTH LIVING
Your political party may disappoint you. Your friends betray you. But Nature never will.
Every year, like clockwork, daffodils and crocuses poke their heads through the ground and come back for another round.
Though their lives are brief, the beauty and courage they bestow is enduring.
They never, ever, give up. Like some Americans.
Like a man who wouldn't let his disability define him.
Charles Krauthammer.
He was a man who lived the life he intended. Who believed you would be "betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think, and you don't say it honestly and bluntly."
Charles Krauthammer always said what he thought, and he did it with elegance.
He was a Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard trained psychiatrist, political writer and commentator, and became the Voice of Conservatism.
Although he appeared nightly on FOX TV, most people never knew that as a young man a diving accident left him a quadriplegic.
They never knew he typed his earlier articles with a pencil, held in his one good hand, key by key, because he was determined never to be a victim.
Charles Krauthammer was a man of principle, with a mind which allowed him to move from liberalism to conservatism after finding he agreed with the policies of President Ronald Reagan.
His conservatism, however, did not keep him from being bipartisan in this thinking.
Like Prof. Alan Dershowitz.
Although an ardent Liberal Democrat, Dershowitz is an unfailing champion when it comes to defending the law and the Constitution, never hesitating because of politics, defending Trump according to the law when he felt it was appropriate.
It has, however, he has said, led to fewer invitations to Martha's Vineyard.
Brit Hume, a FOX colleague of Krauthammer's for many years, reflected, "There was a gentleness about him. If he disagreed with you, you never felt attacked. He just disagreed with you."
To have people such as this in our world makes the heart swell with pride.
It's the way you feel when you remember the only thing Nathan Hale regretted at the time of his hanging, was that he had only one life to lose for his country.
It's the lump in your throat you get when reading aloud the words of the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July.
Or when thinking about the soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War, with bleeding feet, without warm clothes or shoes, but possessed of unflagging determination.
That is America.
These are people who make you want to be a better person.
So when Conservatives like White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is kicked out of a Virginia eatery by a Leftist-New-York-Transplant owner, because she doesn't like Sanders' politics;
When Florida Åttorney General Pam Bondi is threatened by an angry mob, hulking men shouting at her, inches from her face, preventing her from going to a Mr. Rogers documentary. But she says, "No way!" will she leave by the back door. "I won't be bullied by them!"
When decapitated animal carcuses are left on the doorsteps of Homeland Security staffers, for their children to find;
Or an Easy-Rider aging actor tweets a crude message, to lock the president's son in a cage with pedophiles, and a Representative to the U.S. Congress urges protestors to riot and make Conservatives unwelcome anywhere, anytime.
When the Democrat Party acts in this way, you know they are a desperate bunch.
And you know, that if they wanted to, they could learn a lot about how to conduct themselves from the Life and Times of Charles Krauthammer.
Hold the line, America.
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