Well, yes, Mr. Clinton was President, but the 104th Congress was in full swing, the Contract With America had been passed, and -- best of all -- Adrianna Huffington was a conservative!
I was a big fan of Ms. Huffington, she had a powerful and fresh conservative voice. And I was quite the fan of Speaker Gingrich, watching his Pepperdine course on TV and enjoying a conservative Republican who lived for new ideas and change and was comfortable with technology.
Now, Arianna has discovered the SUV as bete-noir and we have discovered a few too many of Newt's secular appetites. But The Weekly Standard brings a great blast from '95 with "Why Newt Must Run." Arianna celebrates the Speaker and tries to prevent the Dole debacle of '96:
The second moral imperative was again identified by the speaker in his speech on the night of the Million Man March: "I don't think that any white conservative anywhere in America ought to look at Louis Farrakhan and just condemn him, without asking yourself where were you when the children died, where were you when the schools failed, where were you when they had no hope, and unless we're prepared to roll up our sleeves and we are prepared to reach out and to say, 'I'll give you an alternative . . .'" There is a moral imperative to articulate the alternative not every now and then but with a sense of urgency, day in and day out, in full-length speeches and in answers at press conferences, on talk radio and on "Oprah" and on "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," until this becomes a revolution with a human face and Americans recognize it as their own.
Very interesting, but how can you read this and not see a Democrat trying to fight her way out of a Republican shell? Government involvement in bettering the lives of the less fortunate, social programs to combat drugs and crime? Sounds pretty Democratic to me. What the Democratic party really needs is a conservative Democrat. By this I mean a candidate who has a vision to better society, but also understands the limitations of vast programs that just dump money on problems. Someone who sees that there are things that can be fixed and has not only the vision, but the leadership and the workable plan to do the job. As California braces for a recall election onslaught the people should remember to look for answers to the state's problems, not just a charismatic leader. Charisma is important in a leader, and probably why Newt did not run, but a message is important too, and one complete with some details that show it to be based in reality. Those who support Howard Dean should think about this. It is much easier to rail against the establishment and promise great changes and quite another to have a concrete plan to accomplish the changes.
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