The Iron Lady

Mary and I saw "The Iron Lady" yesterday afternoon at the Lafayette in Suffern.

Wow...

We're talking a powerful film.

We're talking a powerful film that if you're a Republican or conservative or even a "moderate" or "independent" who is open to voting Republican... chances are - whether you realize it consciously or not - the effect upon you of watching this movie will be to make you far more likely to vote for Newt Gingrich and far more likely to viscerally recoil from Mitt Romney.

(If you've already seen the movie you no doubt understand where I'm coming from.)

Although of course there was no purposeful attempt to link Thatcher to Gingrich or the Thatcher era to America 2012, consciously - or unconsciously - a link has been forged.

Love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher was the larger than life figure who along with Reagan and Pope John Paul II symbolized all that was right with "The Right."

(Of course the Left took - and to this day takes - the exact opposite view. But that's neither here nor there for purposes of this post.)

In the end Thatcher - the hero, even with all her faults - was stabbed in the back by "lesser" men... men who in taking power soon botched the job so badly that they lost power!

Again... while I'm not claiming that Newt Gingrich is in the same league as a Margaret Thatcher, or a Reagan, or a John Paul II, one can't help but come away from a screening of "The Iron Lady" without (at least subconsciously) placing Newt in the role of Thatcher and Romney in the role of one of the "extras" who betrayed Thatcherism (Reaganism) in a selfish and ultimately self-destructive pursuit of personal power... personal gain.

The Gingrich campaign - and every supporter of Newt Gingrich and opponent of Mitt Romney - should be shouting from the rooftops for likely Republican primary voters (and indeed all likely voters in advance of the general election should Newt win the nomination) to go to the movies... go to the movies and see "The Iron Lady."