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I believe that Reagan clearly articulated what people were looking for - conservative principles.

I like to explain this - it’s really not that hard to figure out.

Suppose you have a girl that’s been raised in a family, where the father divorced the mother. She has never known a home where a real marriage occurred. Now that same woman goes out in the world what is she going to look for?

See - Reagan figured this out. People want to be happy, they want to be successful. But they don’t know how to get what they really want. You have to show them! You have to walk them through why conservative principles work, and why you are better off with them.

Reagan understood. Did Romney? No.

I was sitting on my couch earlier this election, and a good friend of mine was asking if I had heard about his 47 percent comment. She asked me what I thought about it all.

Here’s what I told her.

“I disagree with Romney”.

I myself have been written off by people who knew better, who said I would never be successful, that I had nothing to hope for - but we had a principal. And do you know what our principal used to say - “we are kids from this school, from this neighbourhood, if you give us half a chance, we’ll go far”.

My goal was to be the kid who won the award in the school for the scholarship, to be the best kid in my grade for that year. Everyone flat out laughed at me. Everyone. It was one of the proudest days of my life when they did award me it (and it wasn’t particularly close).

But it took years of hard work and effort to get there - years to position myself where I could be in a position to win. And then I still had to close the deal.

But I did it.

How many of the 47 percent believe the same?