When you get in office, don't socialize the economy. Take a chance on economic freedom. Health care is solvable that way. So is a secure old age for millions. And a tax structure that spurs prosperity.

If this advice seems premature, long before the election, it is offered in a spirit of pure defeatism. You are the front-runner and the other party has nobody to beat you. Or rather it has a composite, with no consistent ideas.

The other party went along with huge increases in government spending and abuse by special interest lobbyists. They did not reform entitlements. Or farm subsidies. Or Social Security. They added an immense drug benefit to Medicare. They have not stemmed illegal immigration or simplified -- much less what they should have done, killed -- the income tax. They did cut taxes. but if that is all conservativism accomplishes in office, it is awfully thin stuff.

And so conservatives are reduced to relying on you, a liberal. This is unexpected but not not necessarily crazy. Presidents surprise all the time. Welfare reform came on your husband's watch; who would have thought that?

You could bring the country "universal health care" in a strictly free-market format. The tools exist. They only need to be enthusiastically promoted. Health Savings Accounts give a tax break on doctor bills. And high-deductible insurance protects against catastrophic illness. That's real insurance. And it would help hold down costs. Inflation is the challenge in health care, not "getting somebody else to pay," as taxpayers inevitably must under socialism.

Yes, "tax break" implies an ongoing income tax. But it shouldn't be ongoing. Promise to abolish it and 80 percent of voters won't even listen to the other guys.

Social Security reform? Can do, too. Alter the formula for inflation increases in monthly checks. The mainstream media will believe you when you say this isn't a benefit "cut." And let workers divert a percentage of their payroll taxes to personal accounts. But that's what the other party tried to do! Of course. So call it something else and do it. It makes sense.

Use the presidency's "bully pulpit" better. Persuade Americans to do more for themselves by saving, buckling down in school, avoiding having babies out of wedlock, encouraging kids to read more and watch television less. Quote a former president's advice to ask not what the country can do for you but ... everyone knows the rest.

Does all this betray your "political base?" So? Watch how disappointed they'll be when you win. The other party, when in power, foolishly moved to the center. You move right. The times call for it, and news media won't even call it conservative. They'll call it progressive. Accurately, for a change.

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