Mark Gallagher

I just came back from a physical therapy appointment, and was listening to Mike Gallagher on talk radio. A guest called in and she quoted some famous quote that: "If you are a conservative at 20, you have no heart. If you are still a liberal at 40, you have no head." I would like to examine that proverb. It is witty, sounds snappy and is fairly accurate. The young are all tender-heartedness, youthful idealism, passionate, intensely caring, smugly rigid and self-righteous in judgement. The old liberal is often a stale ideologue. The balanced, sensible adult never lets go of his heart while he head traces how things unfold.