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Friday, May 16, 2008 --- 64 days ago http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/friday-talking-points-32_b_102187.ht
 Borah Peak, at 12,662 feet high, is the highest point in Idaho.
[That may sound like a strange place to begin this column, but please bear with me.]
It was named for Senator William Borah , known as "the Lion from Idaho." He had an impressive political career, even running for president at age 71, the first Idahoan ever to do so (of any age). Borah was a progressive, and clashed with his party over his often left-wing stances. He was even friendly toward Russian communists, while he was the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was also a Republican.
But we speak of Borah today not for his lofty namesake peak, but because he also set the mark for senatorial shame from Idaho. Not even Larry Craig, the sitting (with a wide stance, no doubt) senator from Idaho is a bigger black eye for the state, in one respect. William Borah actually fathered a child with Teddy Roosevelt's daughter -- while they were both married to other people . Top that, Senator Craig!
Sexual escapades aside, Borah is currently being vilified (by a member of his own party, I should point out) for reportedly saying, after Hitler had started invading other countries, "Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided." Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer loves to quote this line, as an example of "appeasement" and everything that's wrong with it.
Which is why we're talking about William B ... |
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