The Australian
Liberal Party by Timothy
Whiteman Wilmington
Conservative Examiner September 16, 2013
Despite the
party being in complete disarray, no clear leader emerging from the pack, and
the man in charge was looked upon by the national media as little more than a
“troglodyte,” the party not only won on the national stage, they won big. This
isn’t a Republican dream come true, but what recently transpired for Australia’s
right-of-center Liberal Party, as reported by The American Spectator magazine on Sept. 16, 2013.
As Australian
right-leaning writer Melanie Phillips recently penned regarding the Liberal
Party's Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott:
“He has faced down the intellectual thuggery and demonization by the Left.”Don’t Let The Name Fool You…
At least
initially confusing to many outside of the Australian political world, the
Australian Liberal Party is actually Australia’s main conservative political
party.
Much akin to
Americans of the Libertarian/Republican fiscal bent who believe in allowing the
free market to be the driving factor in any given economy vice government
regulations.
Meet Tony
Abbott…
A staunch
anti-Communist, Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott was branded by Aussie
self-admitted left-leaning journalists as both a “troglodyte” and “unelectable.”
The political
Left in Australia has gone as far as to float the unsubstantiated and media
driven accusation that as a student, the PM-elect once punched a wall near
a feminist student politician.
Tagged “the mad
monk,” his opponents have attempted to make political hay regarding his
attendance as a young man to a Catholic seminary where he once studied for the
priesthood.
An alien
concept to the non or anti-religious, it’s considered normal for faithful
conservative Catholic young men to enroll in the seminary to discern a
religious vocation. For a possible priest to dis-enroll himself after realizing
the calling isn't meant for him, no stigma is attached from those educated in
the matter.
Keeping himself
fit via the manly art of pugilism, the former Rhodes Scholar was known to have
saved lives at some risk to his own on two separate occasions (without staying
around to be thanked).
Stay The
Course…
Abbott has made
clear he intends to jump-start Australia’s sagging economy by dumping the
opposition Labor Party’s planned so-called “carbon tax” as well as what Abbott
has dubbed as a job killer, the current tax on mining (mining being Australia’s
chief source of wealth).
Reminiscent of
Ronald Reagan in the early in his presidency, Abbott has made no secret be
fully intends to rebuild the dangerously gutted Australian Armed Forces,
ensuring the nation will soon regain its former status as a major power to be
reckoned with in the region.
Much to the
chagrin of those on the Left, Abbott has signaled there would be no increase
from his Canberra government for foreign aid, with the possible exception of
for all parties if he cut it down to nothing but disaster relief.
Abbott's
opposition decried him as combative and inflexible in his policies and
leadership style. But as The
American Spectator's Hal G.P. Colebatch opines: "To be combative is
to be electable.
Comments:Australian voters are either smarter than our voters or, or they got lucky. Calling themselves the Liberal Party was a stroke of genius. We also need to close our “carbon credit” rackets, rebuild our military and resume mining, but most of all, we need to rescue our private economy from extinction and quit the UN.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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