freecounterpoint: Steyn and VDH H8 Tecs

Saturday, July 04, 2009

VDH.
Life is a bitch, Tecs. Now get to work.

Tecumseh said...: National office will dwindle down to the unhealthily singleminded (Clinton, Obama), the timeserving emirs of Incumbistan (Biden, McCain) and dynastic heirs (Bush).

Will? It has, for a long time.; 7/04/2009 10:49 PM
Tecumseh said...: the key is whether she convinces conservatives in eight year of travel and reflection that she's a charismatic Margaret Thatcher type heavyweight.

Hmm... A tall order. Here's what Maggie did first:

[She studied] chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford and trained as a barrister. She won a seat as an MP from Finchley in 1959, as a Conservative. When Edward Heath formed a government in 1970, he appointed Thatcher as Secretary of State for Education and Science. Four years later, she backed Keith Joseph in his bid to become Conservative Party leader, but he was forced to drop out of the election; Thatcher felt that Heath's government had lost direction, so she entered the contest herself and became leader of the Conservative Party in 1975. As the Conservative Party maintained leads in most polls, Thatcher went on to become Britain's Prime Minister in the 1979 general election.

Took her 20 years. And she didn't quit along the way.; 7/04/2009 10:57 PM

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