Sometimes the most courageous "thinking outside the box" either goes unnoticed or earns the person a reputation of being eccentric, unreliable, a "loose cannon."

In 1987 when the Federal Government wanted to send the Minnesota National Guard to Central America to work on "training" projects that would help the Contras overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, Governor Rudy Perpich sued to prevent it. The case went to the US Supreme Court, and Perpich lost, but I admired him for trying.

Here's an article about it in the New York Times.

Perpich's biography at Wikipedia doesn't mention the incident but it does give several reasons why he was called "Governor Goofy."