Cannibals

I watched the news the other day. This is usually a bad idea, but I'm sitting in a hotel room and there's nothing else to do. There was Joe Leiberman being interviewed on CNN. My friend Mark from New Hampshire was a big Leiberman fan. Watching this reminded me of something I read somewhere about Lyndon Johnson. I think it was during Johnson's difficult term as President he said, "Do you know the difference between cannibals and liberals?" Johnson said, "Cannibals eat only their enemies."

Robert Frost described a liberal as someone "who won't take his own side in a quarrel." And Bob Dole quoted the late Frank Rizzo (former Mayor of Philadelphia) who said, "A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet."