Posted by
KsReaganite on Thursday, February 24, 2011 4:49:00 PM
When it comes to partisanship, I take second seat to none,
which is what you’d expect from someone who has worked in a dozen GOP campaigns
including several presidential ones. With the accusations of hyper-partisanship
flying off the handles (just like tempers) from Wisconsin to Indiana to DC, it
is important to remember that what unites as individuals believing in
representative government and freedom is more durable than what separates us.
Importantly, the individual comity across party lines are the leavening of the
bread of national civility.
A very short while ago, I had some very unforeseen and
tragic things happen in my personal life. Given my largely silent and stoic
nature, it is not something I am about to put on Facebook or something similar,
and thus planned to suffer on my own (everyone had his Cross to bear, I guess).
Broken, confused, sleepless, without appetite, and at one of the lowest points in my
adult life, two hands stretched out to me unasked. One was that of my younger brother,
the other that of a Democratic ‘elder statesman’. We are here, our homes are
here, our tables are here, our ears and our hearts are here for you. What can
we do to mend you?
Why, I asked my Democrat friend? Because you’re my brother.