Principled political figures are as rare as snow in July, but once in a while you find one

 

 

I'm more reluctant by the day to lionize any political figure, especially since the Trumpism phenomenon made my heart heavy with disillusionment. 

But as of now, Liz Cheney is on my list of supremely cool people. Watch her Meet The Press Interview from this morning.  She give exactly the right answer to the two most important questions in the seven-minute conversation. 

When asked about what kinds of compromises might bet necessary on Ukraine's part to achieve a cease-fire, she says, in so many words, "none." Just so. It would be like a woman negotiating with her rapist on the consequences of his aggression. 

And she's similarly spot-on about the attempt to put the JCPOA back together. Chuck Todd tries to parse matters by asking her if she'd be cool with a deal on Iran's nuclear capabilities if Russia weren't involved. "Nah," she basically says. A pariah state is a pariah state. Surely we're learning that from the Eastern European cataclysm.

If I do vote for president in 2024 - and it's far from certain that I will - it will be for her, whether or not she's on the ballot.