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Mr. Tyrrell concludes: "A more intriguing point for me would be to know how many members of the political class enter politics free of anger. Is it possible that the commonweal is the product not of benevolence but of malice?"

p>Is it not agreed that politics is merely war without bullets? And, br> according to Churchill, more dangerous? There is no doubt that hatred of the enemy is a primary driving force. /p>

The difficult question when precisely does one enter politics? For Dick Armey, it was when he said, "I can do a better job than that."

p>My entry was far less well-defined. I have often referred to myself as a "Clinton Republican," my fear of that regime having motivating me to become a political activist. It is an error, however, to state that I entered politics at that time. I entered politics at the age of ten, when I decided that the freedoms in this country were worth defending, and that, when the time came, I would pay the rent on them. I did not realize at the time that our freedoms were under a greater internal threat than external. br> -- Nathan Zook br> Austin, TX br> (veteran, USAF; veteran, Tenn. ANG) /p> p> BIG DADDY br> Re: George Neumayr's

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