This is a video from the Romney campaign that shows Rick Santorum publicly endorsing Romney in 2008. But I don't get why this is such a smoking gun. At the time, Romney was certainly superior to McCain in terms of political credibility and principle. I would bet that most people who are against Romney today were for him in 2008. The missing ingredient in all this is prudence. Politics practiced at its highest level used to be called statesmanship (we now call them "leaders"), which is the ability to know the principles and use prudence, or practical wisdom, to achieve the principles given the circumstances.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Prudence in Politics
At The American Spectator the following video was posted in today's "The Day Ahead" post:
This is a video from the Romney campaign that shows Rick Santorum publicly endorsing Romney in 2008. But I don't get why this is such a smoking gun. At the time, Romney was certainly superior to McCain in terms of political credibility and principle. I would bet that most people who are against Romney today were for him in 2008. The missing ingredient in all this is prudence. Politics practiced at its highest level used to be called statesmanship (we now call them "leaders"), which is the ability to know the principles and use prudence, or practical wisdom, to achieve the principles given the circumstances.
This is a video from the Romney campaign that shows Rick Santorum publicly endorsing Romney in 2008. But I don't get why this is such a smoking gun. At the time, Romney was certainly superior to McCain in terms of political credibility and principle. I would bet that most people who are against Romney today were for him in 2008. The missing ingredient in all this is prudence. Politics practiced at its highest level used to be called statesmanship (we now call them "leaders"), which is the ability to know the principles and use prudence, or practical wisdom, to achieve the principles given the circumstances.
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