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Don't listen to the nay-sayers - we can win the future.
“She can’t win”, “she’s a loser”, “she’s too uncompromising, right wing and just, well, unelectable”.
We heard it all. Every single jibe about Margaret Thatcher was spouted time and time again by her detractors. Everything was wrong with her. She wanted, as revolutionary as it was, private individuals to own their own businesses, keep more of their earnings and to invest in a freer market. Europhiles gasped in horror as she stood up for the nation state and defended the British national interest. Many a monocle popped from the eye of an Eton gent disgusted at her petit-bourgeois attitude, that she put the interests of the strivers, the lower middle class, first.
It was too revolutionary for a creed set in its ways, too complacent and willing to accommodate itself with an unforgiving, relentless socialism that was holding the country back.
But she won. She won three times. The public didn’t throw her out. So do not for one minute listen to the nonsense that Newt can’t win, either.
Ideas have their weight in politics. As time goes by, we’ll hear the drip, drip of policies being released (though probably not from Obama who hasn’t a policy in his election brief). But Newt has had them for ages. We can sum up what we expect a Newt presidency to contain. America already voted for it in 1994. They voted for balanced budgets, a reformed, yet smaller, government and real tax cuts.
With Newt you know where you stand, just like the British people knew where they stood with Mrs. Thatcher. There were no flip-flops, no U-turns and no swift-boat veterans popping up to expose one big fat lie propagated as a truth. The line was drawn in the sand and conservatism was fought for based on its intrinsic virtue. Take it or leave it, these are our values right for our country.
I’m not saying any of the other Republican candidates won’t do such a good job. I could easily support Senator Brownback, Senator Fred Thompson or Governor Mitt Romney. But Newt is tried and tested; he’s good on all the issues.
Above all, he’ll fight where he stands.
Last night I was conversing with someone about the contest. They used the point that Newt is uncompromising as an argument against Newt. I replied that it was one of the reasons for supporting him and why he’s good for America.
Would you vote for someone just so they could compromise with pro-abortion, high-taxing, amnesty-supporting Democrats? I wouldn’t and no self-respecting conservative should either!