Bill Sali and Helen Chenoweth - the "scent" of a leader?

I've been thinkin' about the whole Bill Sali race once again. It's been a bit in the news and I want you to consider a few things:

Idaho's history is an independent one. We've never really had a Idaho Federal leader since Helen Chenoweth who has publicly dug-in on personal prinicples. In many ways, Butch served us well in DC on many philosophical issues, but at times he seemed like he was "all hat, no cattle" on the deep personal issues of our time...but I may be wrong. I AM certain the other elected officials fall into a category. Go through the list. They're all nice guys.

But to reference John Eldredge's book "Wild at Heart"...is that what these guys wanted when they were little kids....to grow up and be nice guys? To grow up and have people not have a passionate opinion of them, except that they were "nice". The world is full of nice, sterile men and women....especially in DC. It's like the agenda and play card is for a political Stepford Wife convention. "Nice to meet you. My, don't you look nice today....blah, blah, blah"

It makes me want to break a wine bottle in half and start a bar-room brawl.(tee hee)

Maybe I've hit on something. (Not the barroom brawl, but the reason why some people seem to "hate" Bill Sali - oh, BTW, Idaho was too great for hate....or at least it should be.)

Bill's a man of principle and he is a fighter. Soft men and women don't understand this. Passionate people on both sides of the aisle DO understand this.

Helen was like that. She was a Man's woMan. And many people of both genders in Idaho loved her. Bill's got her mantle on him, I'm prone to believe - for the good and the bad.

Just some thoughts from a thinkin' guy who snapped this picture of The Thinker in KC a few weeks ago.

Den

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I'm opposed to Bill Sali because he's incompetent, he's ineffective, and he tries to marginalize many of my fellow citizens -- fortunately, since he's incompetent and ineffective, he doesn't do a very good job of it. Plus, on a more personal level, I generally dislike people who refuse to admit that I and other members of my church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in case you were wondering) are Christians, especially when they profess to believe that only Christians (and maybe Jews, at least when asked publicly) should have any significance in this country.

Re: Helen Chenoweth, do you have any examples of any actual accomplishments she had, other than "principled" sponsorship of bills that never got a hearing in committee? (Accomplishments other than holding hearings on "black helicopters", that is.)

And re: "passionate people on both sides of the aisle" -- do you have any examples of any bills (that have actually meant something) that they've had passed in defiance of the "soft men and women" in the last, say, 40 years?