Thank you for rising above the ugly fray of the typical cutthroat, immoral and corrupt Washington partisan politics. Thomas Paine once said that:
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of [every] man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
Indeed you have triumphed! How? Because you did not shrink or shirk from your duty to do what was/is right. As you have recently quoted in one of your interviews, a Church (LDS) hymn: “Do what is right; let the consequence follow.” History will look down kindly on you. You stood alone. You have become unpopular, and even loathed by some of your peers and others, but as the author of Things Fall Apart said, that's one of the truest tests of integrity - the refusal to be compromised.
You sought and ran for the office of President of the United States - and lost. But here’s what I think: "It’s better not being President at all, than being an impeached one."
Thank you for being an example of a devout Latter-day Saint and for those of us who try our best to shun immorality, lying, deception, chicanery, corruption, etc. in our government, its leaders and public servants. May you continue to be that coruscating light in the percolating political darkness now slithering from the top coiling and smothering our country.
Fight On! Fight with Integrity and not be compromised.
Fa'afetai,
LV Letalu
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"Perhaps the surest test of an individual's INTEGRITY is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect." - Thomas S. Monson
