I don’t find Churchil’s statement to ring quite true these days but than again we would have to consider what he meant by conservative.

Once again, Cichawoda reminds us that she knows as much history as my dog knows calculus.

It’s been a few years since I read William Manchester’s biography of Churchill, but off the top of my head I can recall that Churchill opposed the British unions during the Great Strike of 1928, fought (and was a POW) in the Boer War, and wanted the UK to rearm during the ’30′s (Cichawoda undoubtably would have denounced him as a warmonger). He believed in the British Empire and firmly opposed the USSR (he coined the phrase “The Iron Curtain.”)

It is true we do not know his views on topics like abortion and gay marriage – simply because such things were not issues in his day. Nobody, left or right, argued for them. Homosexual acts were illegal in Britain until the early ’60′s.

So, pray tell, oh boneheaded one, where you get the idea that conservativism was somehow kinder and gentler in Churchill’s day?

I am fairly old and looking around at my peer I don’t find Churchil’s statement to ring quite true these days

Ha! So you’re not a spring chicken either, eh? Well, remember the quote ends :”if you’re not a conservative by 40, you have no brain.”

So you have no brain and neither do your friends. The fact that airheads of a feather flock together doesn’t prove Churchill was wrong.