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PoliSat Rhymes about...
William F. Buckley, Jr..
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The A's and the B's demand what they please,
but progress is made by the C's. (limerick 20001023-01)
    Said Buckley, a sage among sages,
    "Who's best on our leadership stages?
    Not Harvard/Yale blokes
    but common-sense folks
    picked randomly from the white-pages."
    The Left thinks it's best to be ruled
    by top-grads from Ivy-League Schools
    and those who received
    their gentlemen's "C"s
    are nothing but legacy-fools.
    They paint all opponents the same
    by saying they lack enough brains
    to know how to lead
    the people in need,
    whose brains they consider quite lame.
    Elitists said Ike did'nt "read,"
    that Ford had less brains than we need,
    and also called Ron
    a simple moron,
    and call George a dumb-guy indeed.
    To me it remains such a myst'ry
    just why they cannot learn from hist'ry
    and still ridicule
    those common-sense "fools"
    who managed somehow to make hist'ry.
    The folks who said Ron's brain was small
    were quick to just laugh and guffaw
    especially when
    he said in Berlin
    to Gorbechev, "Tear down this wall."
    Those same folks were also aghast
    and claimed he'd returned to the past
    the time that he said
    when speaking of Reds,
    "The Soviet Empire won't last."
    They called him a man of the past
    and made him the butt of their laughs,
    but when the Wall fell,
    then Empire as well,
    I'm thankful he had the last laugh.
© 2000 --Inspired by my recollection of a long-ago comment by William F. Buckley, Jr., the gist of which was that he would prefer to be governed by people randomly selected from the telephone-book white pages than by the faculties of Harvard and Yale.  Except for that rare group of intellectuals who authored our Constitution to simultaneously grant and restrain governmental power, too many intellectuals are arrogant enough to believe their superior intellects empower (indeed, obligate) them to decide how other people should lead their lives.  In contrast, the common-sense folks who abound in the white pages have enough wisdom to know that they lack the wisdom to run other peoples' lives.  Too many intellectuals mistakenly believe that intellectualism and leadership are synonymous and fail to understand that great leadership requires keen insight into matters of common sense-- a skill amply demonstrated by the Founding Fathers and numerous great, and genuinely intellectual leaders.