Reply #25: not saying that at all ... [View All]

[Pepperbelly]

I didn't decide to support him for it until a couple of weeks ago because I just didn't think he would do it. After so long in the military and moving every year, getting shot at, getting shot, and a healthy retirement, a good gig on CNN, board memberships in a few corporations that some of the folk here freak out about and a quieter pace, I really thought that he would probably just kick back and enjoy life. I didn't think that he would trade a really sweet existence for a fish bowl.

But from as early as I remember, he has never shirked what he thought he should do and if he is as convinced as I am about the horrible damage that Bushco has inflicted, he might well perceive it as his duty to try and fix it if he can. The longer it drug on, the more likely I viewed it that he would run.

I tell you, as a kid, he was the one that the adults ALWAYS held up as an example but the odd thing was that we couldn't dislike him for it. He wasn't a thing like Sid in Tom Sawyer. He was just a regular dude who studied hard, worked his ass off and did well. When the rest of us were growing our hair long, partaking in various substances and playing rock and roll (yes, a BUNCH of his relatives are rock musicians), Wesley had his nose to the grindstone.

And when I lost a year or two somewhere (onward through the fog), Wesley was in Viet Nam getting shot. He didn't make a big deal of it either. Hell, I didn't even KNOW he'd been wounded.

No, you shouldn't make your decisions based on my experience but I do know this: Wesley is not some evil monster as some paint him to be nor is he anyone's puppet. He's a decent guy with decent values and I am very pleased that he has done so well for himself and the country.

If he decides not to run, I will applaude the decision and say, "Well done, cuz."