GOP Flirts with 2012 Disaster

Written by David Frum on Friday May 27, 2011

Maybe Republicans should nominate Paul Ryan. Or Sarah Palin. Maybe we need to get the passions of 2009-2011 out of our system once and for all.

Maybe Republicans should nominate Paul Ryan. Or Sarah Palin. Maybe we need to get the passions of 2009-2011 out of our system once and for all. Maybe it's just excessively rationalistic to imagine that human beings can think their way out of their problems in advance. Maybe Benjamin Franklin was wiser when he said (using the word "master" in its older sense of "teacher"): "Experience is a hard master, but fools will have no other."