“WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO” (New York Post, October 21, 2007):
In this sense, the real importance of â??Heroic Conservatism” is not the philosophy Gerson propounds but the mindset he reveals.
In his loyalty to his former boss, his unwillingness to question serious policy failures, his abiding sense of righteousness and his glib dismissal of critics, he may be giving us an insight into why President Bush is pulling only a 24 percent approval rating in the latest Reuters/Zogby poll, one scant point higher than Richard Nixon’s historically low rating in 1974, not long before he flew off into the sunset.