“Mr Clarke is the man who puts the ‘mess’ in ‘messianic’. … There is absolutely no evidence that Mr Clarke, for all his experience, brio and irrepressible ‘blokishness’ is capable of, or even interested in, this intellectual task [of contructing a genuinely new Conservatism]. ..
“But why bother with such complexities when you regard yourself as the solution?”
— From Matthew d’Ancona’s August 25th column in the UK Telegraph on Conservative party leader Kenneth Clarke.
Other Lisa e-mailed this to me with the quip, “Don’t you think we ought to use this line — “the man who puts the ‘mess’ in ‘messianic'” — for Dubya???”
