Drunken Durfin
06-11-2012, 10:02 AM
When I read this:
CSMonitor.com - Why did Rand Paul forsake his dad Ron Paul for Mitt Romney?
(http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/0609/Why-did-Rand-Paul-forsake-his-dad-Ron-Paul-for-Mitt-Romney)
My first thought was that scene from Braveheart with Robert the Bruce and his leper father:
Leper: You will embrace this rebellion. Support it from our lands in the north. I will gain English favor by condemning it, and ordering it opposed from our lands in the south. Sit down. Stay a while.
Robert: (slumping into a chair) This Wallace, he doesn't even have a knighthood, but he fights with passion and he inspires.
Leper: (laughs) And you wish to charge off and fight as he did. So would I.
Robert: Well, maybe it's time.
Leper: (sitting, getting serious) It is time to survive. You're the 17th Robert Bruce. The 16 before you passed you land and title because they didn't charge in. Call a meeting of the nobles.
Robert: But they do nothing but talk.
Leper: Rightly so. They're as rich in English titles and lands as they are in Scottish, just as we are. You admire this man, this William Wallace. Uncompromising men are easy to admire. He has courage, so does a dog. But it is exactly the ability to compromise that makes a man noble. And understand this: Edward Longshanks is the most ruthless king ever to sit on the throne of England. And none of us, and nothing of Scotland will remain, unless we are as ruthless. Give ear to our nobles. Knowing their minds is the key to the throne.
Ah, politics. I rather a revolutionary war to be honest, but that is never going to happen as long as we have iPhones, TV and pizza.
CSMonitor.com - Why did Rand Paul forsake his dad Ron Paul for Mitt Romney?
(http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/0609/Why-did-Rand-Paul-forsake-his-dad-Ron-Paul-for-Mitt-Romney)
My first thought was that scene from Braveheart with Robert the Bruce and his leper father:
Leper: You will embrace this rebellion. Support it from our lands in the north. I will gain English favor by condemning it, and ordering it opposed from our lands in the south. Sit down. Stay a while.
Robert: (slumping into a chair) This Wallace, he doesn't even have a knighthood, but he fights with passion and he inspires.
Leper: (laughs) And you wish to charge off and fight as he did. So would I.
Robert: Well, maybe it's time.
Leper: (sitting, getting serious) It is time to survive. You're the 17th Robert Bruce. The 16 before you passed you land and title because they didn't charge in. Call a meeting of the nobles.
Robert: But they do nothing but talk.
Leper: Rightly so. They're as rich in English titles and lands as they are in Scottish, just as we are. You admire this man, this William Wallace. Uncompromising men are easy to admire. He has courage, so does a dog. But it is exactly the ability to compromise that makes a man noble. And understand this: Edward Longshanks is the most ruthless king ever to sit on the throne of England. And none of us, and nothing of Scotland will remain, unless we are as ruthless. Give ear to our nobles. Knowing their minds is the key to the throne.
Ah, politics. I rather a revolutionary war to be honest, but that is never going to happen as long as we have iPhones, TV and pizza.