Posted on 11/09/2008 2:32:17 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter
Yesterday New Zealand woke up to the dawning of a new Era.
It was Sunday and, as usual, conservative Kiwis of a religious persuasion awoke, scrubbed up, got the kids ready for Sunday School, and went to church to worship. And sometime during the Service we thanked our Creator for the deliverance He granted us the night before.
And those of us conservative Kiwis of lesser religious persuasion slept in, grateful for the hangover arising from Saturday evening's libations. For them the sleep of the Righteous would be lengthened by knowing that their sore heads were well-earned in good service to their Nation.
All awoke to bright sunny skies, breathing Freedom's sweet breeze.
Our enemies awoke too, and mourned the end of an Era, nursing sore heads that they did wickedly inflict upon themselves through trying to dull the agonizing pain of defeat by over-indulging in Demon Rum. For it is axiomatic that Liberals don't go to church, neither do they sleep the sleep of the Righteous. Yet their evil machinations were for naught, and now they tase galling defeat, and it is bitter indeed.
New Zealand held its elections on Saturday. And we have a new Prime Minister, John Key of the National Party. Helen Clark is defeated, and Helengrad has fallen. It was a decisive rout.
The quisling Winston Peters of New Zealand First has been soundly and decisively defeated and his party thrown into political obscurity, no longer a Parliamentary force to be reckoned with. A major nuisance in Parliament is gone.
Our political landscape has changed completely: National fell just short of gaining an outright majority -- nearly impossible to achieve in our "MMP" political system designed to encourage coalition governments.
National's coalition partners are ACT -- self-described as "The Liberal Party" but actually WAY to the right, and United First, whose single seat will bring a Christian ethic to the coalition.
This leaves Labor and their lapdogs such as the Green Party solidly in Opposition.
Of all the screwy legislation passed by Helen Clark's governments, most of the screwiest came from the Green Party. We are well rid of them!
Left out of the political equation is the Maori Party: they made excellent gains in the Maori seats, and if John Key is clever he will find a way to accommodate the Maori Party in his government somehow. Certainly if he wants Longevity: for what is good for Maori is usually good for New Zealand.
So after nine LONG YEARS, we are rid of Auntie Helen. Nine long, interminable years where our Gummint got larger and larger, with more and more laws prescribing nearly every facet of life and eroding basic Civil Liberties nearly to the point where "that which is not Compulsory is Forbidden", in a weird Kafkaesque sense.
Along with Canada, New Zealand is now a bastion of Conservative values. Liberty is alive and well in the South Pacific!
And today the air smells fresh and clean: a cool refreshing breeze blows across the land. It is called "Freedom".
I watched your election with some amusement . . . amusement being hard to come by in the States.
Congratulations!
PING
Celebration time! Woo Hoo!!!
And then come give us lessons
Hey, RNC. Are ya listenin’?
Hello? Hello?
I’m so glad to hear that. It’s ironic how so many other countries around the world are trending right and the US made a hard left. I’m thankful for the balance.
I’m retiring from the Air Force in a few years. What’s your nation’s refugee policy?
I'm jealous.
Way to go New Zealand!!!!
WOOT! WOOT!
Congratulations to New Zealand ping!
HUGE congrats to you and your fine fellow countrymen. I’m glad there are still countries with largely European heritage in their populace who haven’t totally succumbed to the bullshit “gimme gimme gimme, take care of ME” mentality that has seemingly swept this country.
God bless.
Good! Now's there's two of you. Sigh...
Congratulations FRiend! It’s good to see that voters in SOME parts of the world still have some common sense!
Nice to see the sun shining in the morning instaed of the storm looming. Congrats New ZEE, support us in our days of grief and sorrow.
LOL! I almost fell out of my chair when I read that. Canada is not a bastion of Conservative values. In fact, it's far from it. SSM, no restrictions on abortion whatsoever, and Orwellian "Human Rights Tribunals". Conservative values, my ass!
> LOL! I almost fell out of my chair when I read that. Canada is not a bastion of Conservative values.
Right now it is a dam’n sight more Conservative than America is. Sadly.
Did you not read what I wrote? What do you have that is worse than those that I listed?
Did you not read what I wrote? What do you have that is worse than those that I listed?
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