No Conservative Candidate for Irish President

Maria Steen, the prolife and social conservative activist, has just missed out on getting nominated as a candidate for the Presidential election in Ireland.

The Irish President is pretty much a ceremonial role. 

"Rarely has the political consensus seemed more oppressive or detached from the wishes and desires of the public", Steen said. That seems fair.

I actually don't care who gets elected now and I'm not even sure I'm going to vote. Not voting might be the best way to send a message. The three candidates are backed by the main parties in the Dáil, all of whom have a liberal-secular-globalist outlook.

The President is supposed to be above politics, anyway, so what could a conservative President actually do for conservatism? Very little, surely. And what's the point of all the political debate at every Presidential election?

I'd much rather we had a monarch as head of state. (A purely ceremonial monarch.) I wish we had, not only a ceremonial High King (or High Queen), but also a scatter of ceremonial petty kings. Wouldn't you rather have your local supermarket opened by a king than a county councillor? Think of the fun we could have reviving all the old kingdoms!