re: #1426 The Sanity Inspector

Carter!? Devil his due, he was good at a lot of things before making a pigs breakfast of being president.

We need to go back to the old school - in the Roman republic. I mean the ambitious, plucky republic, not the fat, indulgent, soft, perverted Empire. When they had a war, they routinely lost 1/4 to 1/3 of their senators. Being a leader in government was earned by something like merit. It meant putting your money where your mouth was and leading armies. They didn’t put up with that half-arse crap military service that Gore and W got away with due to family connections, or Clinton’s manoeuvrings to flee the country”for college”.