Operation character

Rush, it’s time for operation character to replace operation chaos. McCain, Clinton and Obama present a Sisyphean challenge. Where’s the character? The integrity to refuse to consent to pandering, hypocrisy and the power of populism apparently overwhelms each candidate. Each humiliating verbal faux pas and all unrealistic proposals from the dynamic trio just make the success of operation character difficult and problematic. But what else is to be done? Primo Levi summarized this demand for integrity and character in the face of impossible odds at the Auschwitz concentration camp, when he wrote: "We still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last - the power to refuse our consent." Conservative Republicans have no other choice other than to dissent to liberal socialism, to fascist proposals of Presidential hopefuls, to demeaning insults to our dignity as individuals, as patriotic tax-paying voters and as the few, the proud, the forever free.