Time to Turn Back
Identifying oneself with the Conservative Party can often bring forth a barrage of comments that we, as Conservatives, are a “party of the past”, that we are “always looking back, never forward”, and so on. This is probably meant as criticism, but the truth of the matter is that there are periods in history where retreat was, and is, smart. And not just in warfare.
C. S. Lewis, 1898-1963, was a noted Irish author and scholar, and an outstanding Oxford academic. In lectures given by him in the mid-1940′s, there are two quotations from his series, “Right and Wrong” that can be seen as a clue to the meaning of the Universe. Doctor Lewis first sets up an image with the rhetorical statement that “you can’t put the clock back.” He then comments, “Would you think I was joking if I said that you can put a clock back, and that if the clock is wrong, it’s often the sensible thing to do?”
He then follows with this brilliant statement: “If you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
I submit to you that the Conservative Party is now the most progressive political party because it is the first party to totally turn “soonest” to the noble documents, all the documents, offerred up by the Founding Fathers of this great nation. Our sole mission is to re-establish the limits and boundaries of Government as framed by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
Ladies and Genglemen, we are on the wrong road. Time to turn back before it’s too late.
