Mitt Romney had nothing to lose

“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose,” as the song puts it. The same definition applies to courage as well.

Sometimes, the same act has different costs for two different people. Challenging President Lyndon B. Johnson in the New Hampshire primary in 1968 was both cheap and easy for Sen. Eugene McCarthy, a little-known politician (and poet) from Minnesota. He lived in the shadow of Hubert Humphrey. He had no future ambitions and nothing to lose but his time.