Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/13/tina-brown-captains-courageous.html (sent via Shareaholic) ---- That dreaded reply, “Well, it’s complicated,” is the mantra of our age. The modern leader is essentially a castrato. Between media terror, poll-tested positioning, legal restraints, and crony capitalism it takes massive moral character to remember who you are. And once in a while act on it. Sometimes leadership is just saying what you believe. Susana Martinez, Republican governor of New Mexico, is a beguiling veep option for Mitt Romney. “I don’t want to be a politician,” snaps America’s first Latina governor, reassuringly. “I want to be a leader.” She’s always been one. Growing up in a working-class Mexican-American neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, Martinez was known for ordering the other kids around. Her grandmother called her “la abogadita,” the little lawyer; her older brother remembers her as “muy bossy.”
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