Although the conservative may seem to be at a disadvantage due to a long gaze to the rear view, the decisions that the conservative makes will smooth the road that presents itself in the future. Painful falls will be less likely, but even when they occur, the consequences will be far easier to recover from and will be unlikely to leave permanent scars.
As I watch the uber liberal government of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid, I foresee an America that will have lost some teeth, and may indeed emerge with a crooked nose. They are not just walking with her face fully exposed, but in fact they are running at a frantic pace. There is no recognition whatsoever of the failures evident in the rear-view mirror; the clearly visible rubble of socialist/communist experiments and the sorrowful regret that has come from socialized medical care.
Despite the considerable track record that proves reduced tax burdens and decreased spending are key to economic and employment growth, these frantic liberals are bound and determined to sink our future beneath a quagmire of unbridled government spending and a twisted tangle of new or expanded bureaucracy.
So I thank the little philosopher who lives beneath my hat for pointing out the crystal-clear rear view. Not because of a pathetic desire to live in regret for what might have been, but as a chart useful as we navigate our course in the present. We need to make some urgent and sweeping changes to our leadership before the face of America is disfigured beyond recognition.