Idealists, Realists and Optimists

Sometime, early in the last century, Winston Churchill observed that, “if a man was not a liberal when he was in his twenties, then he had no heart. But if he were still a liberal in his forties, then he had no head.”

I think that Winston oversimplified the problem. Because I seem to detect another stage of political evolution. I have no problem with the first two but in older age there does seem to be a return to liberalism especially, but not entirely, on the part of women. Not for me you understand but then, I’ve seen what liberalism can do and does to a people and their sense of personal worth.

In a way, that view was expressed a different way by a different person a couple of days ago. The person was Newt Gingrich and the place was the Southern Republican Leadership Conference Thursday in New Orleans.

Gingrich described Obama as "the most radical president in American history" who oversees a "secular, socialist machine." Gingrich then added that he (Obama) “is the most radical president in American history who has now thrown down the gauntlet to the American people: 'I run a machine. I own Washington and there's nothing you can do about it.”

And until this coming November, he’s right because elections have consequences and that is a bitter pill for many Americans to swallow.

Another attendee at the meeting in New Orleans was Sarah Palin who took on Obama about his decision to telegraph our response to an attack from a country or a group. She, Palin, likened it to telling a bully on the playground to take a swing without fear of retribution.

Obama, the ever petulant, dismissed her comments with the lame excuse that she "knew nothing of things nuclear".

Mr. Obama, may I ask you what an adult lifetime in academia and as a “Community Agitator” taught you about the world of "real politick”? Not much, I would suggest.

But, if Ms. Palin is so vapid, so stupid and so empty, why does she attract so much negative attention from the liberal media? Why don’t they ignore her?

I got part of that answer from an Obamaniac who cited her “vibrancy”.

Now it wouldn’t be the first time that vibrancy and enthusiasm and patriotism have propelled an unlikely candidate to the presidency. Obama had two of those attributes but Ronald Reagan had all three. And so does Sarah. Not that I think she will prevail but I suspect that is the reason for the antipathy from the left. After all it does seem that liberals always tell us indirectly who they fear.

It’s also interesting to look at the divergence of opinion between men and women on the subject of Ms. Palin. By and large, men love her and women don’t. And, before the feminists go into attack mode, it’s not all about glasses and hairstyles and the skirts and the black hosiery although I feel compelled to admit that they don't hurt.

No, it has everything to do with the vibrancy cited, albeit perhaps reluctantly, by the Obama disciple coupled with Hope, real hope, and about Change back to the America I love and which Obama seeks to destroy.

I can’t wait for November to begin the process.