'I look at Dick Cheney and think, 'This man needs friends' (Garrison Keillor, Irish Times)

[Jackeens]

ONLY ONE out of five Americans is willing to describe himself or herself as a Republican these days, and frankly I am tempted to become one of them. For the variety, and because they need me and because when I heard former vice-president Dick Cheney talk about the meaning of Republicanism the other day – “We are what we are,” he said – I felt drawn to the simplicity and dignity of that. And I have never been a Republican, just as I’ve never been to South America, and that makes it tempting, writes GARRISON KEILLOR

I look at pictures of Machu Picchu and think, “Why don’t I get on a plane and go?” And I look at Dick Cheney and think, “This man needs friends.” I voted for Obama, and will vote for him again in 2012, Lord willing, but in the meantime, it’s a free country.

And it is just a whole lot more satisfying to be part of a militant righteous minority than to be in the anxiety-ridden confused majority; to be a nightrider and ambusher rather than one of the people in the long wagon train; to be free to juke around and say wild stuff and know that it doesn’t make a dime’s worth of difference.

Rest of article: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0514/1224246456638.html

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1. Keillor uses his beautiful way with words

to gently shush the republicans into the nursing home. Love that man.