re: #122 brookly red

LOL, what is the old saying?
if at 20 you are not a liberal you have no heart & if by 40 you are not a conservative you have no brain.

That quote, as used by conservatives, is nonsense.

: : The quotation usually attributed to Churchill is, “If you’re not Liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not Conservative when you’re 35, you have no brain.” However, the attribution is false. There is no record of Churchill ever speaking these words, and it is highly unlikely that he would have because Churchill himself did precisely the opposite. He entered politics as a Conservative and was a Conservative at age 25. He switched to the Liberal Party at age 29 and was a Liberal at age 35. (He returned to the Conservatives at age 49.) Also, his beloved wife, Clementine, was a life-long Liberal, and Churchill would hardly have delivered such an indirect insult to her.

: : It should also be remembered that “Liberal” and “Conservative” are the proper names of British political parties and do not translate precisely to the left and right wings of the American political spectrum. That is too long a subject for this space, but it can fairly be said that Churchill’s political viewpoint and guiding principles did not change radically, despite his twice switching his allegiance. In Churchill’s own view, changes in the party, not in himself, compelled his party switches.