Madam,
In response to letters on Fine Gael’s electoral performance, I draw attention to the wilderness years of Kevin Rudd’s Australian Labor Party, Stephen Harper’s Canadian Conservative Party and Felipe Calderon’s Mexican National Action Party.
All out of power for a generation. All faced with monolithic opponents who had won election after election. All happily holding the reins of power now.
Our Day Will Come, and all that.
Yours etc
Senator Paschal Donohoe
Fine Gael, Dublin Central
Letter by Paschal Donohoe published in Irish Times, 19 September 2008