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Entry: Gottfried's Latest Gem Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/gottfrieds_latest_gem#3989 Post contents: Exaggerated public expressions of adulation of Taft among some of the American so-called "Old Right", often seem to me to be exercises in borrowed virtue, or virtue-by-association, among a considerable number of them (not all) whose inclinations are closer to those of Lindbergh (marginally justifiable), and among a few at the fringe whose inclinations are closer to Father Coughlin (unjustifiable.) Taft was morally and intellectually the least impeachable representative of the Old Right, but that doesn't make him worthy of extraordinary admiration or emulation. (But ordinary admiration as a decent and sometimes wise man, yes.) Still, I agree with Taki that America and the world would have been better off if Taft had won in 1952, instead of that shallow politically opportunistic hack Eisenhower, let alone the neo-pagan Space-Man JFK, the former "America-Firster" who got America entangled in Viet Nam. I don't believe for a moment that Taft would have done that. Sent at: 2008 08 30