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| Vancouver Sun Stumping for the Conservatives |
| 10.22.05 (2:37 pm) [edit] |
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The title pretty much says it all. “Federal Liberals soar in polls on wings on wily strategists”. (Subscriber Wall) Yes you heard right. According to the Vancouver Sun, the boys at Earnscliffe are single handedly keeping the Liberals a top the field. This is, of course, absurd. Those in the know, rightly, regard Earnscliffe as a bunch of bumbling idiots. The root of the problem is this. Right wing ideologues, hacks and apologists, and that includes you Fazil Mihlar, Harvey Enchin and Barbara Yaffe, want so badly for Canadians to embrace their dystopian vision for Canada that they are unable to conceive that Canadians could rationally choose to reject it. The Canadian public must be guilty of the crime of false consciousness. “The only reason offered for Liberal strength [by poolster Alan Gregg polling firm] was that Canadians seek stability. One might have hoped that Canadians would also want greater integrity and increasing prosperity [read American levels of taxation] but that does not appear to be the case.” Liberal incumbency has enabled the Liberals to buy off Canadians with new spending promises; the only “mature” Canadian political party, as Bush bitch David Frum described them, can not therefore compete. “The Conservatives have no tax payer-provided money to buy votes, only promises of smaller more efficient and honest government, respect for the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and a belief in a competitive [American style] tax regime, free markets better relations with the United States and moral values . Who’d vote for that?” Well certainly not me, but I digress. The situation is made all the more dire by Paul Martin having to depend on Jack Layton for support. “The Conservatives have promoted a reduction in gas taxes, but the Liberals are unlikely to follow that advice [,interesting choice of words,] because any tax cuts are unacceptable to New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton, who will continue to prop up the Liberal minority government only if it sings Solidarity Forever (in tune).” Who would of thunk it? CEO Prime Minster Paul Martin, Buzz Hargrove, Jinny Sims are all singing the same tune if only of necessity. Reading editorials such as this, it is a wonder why Republican style attacks on the MSM media have found any traction with Canadian Conservatives. Off the top of my head I can not think of single dyed in the wool Liberal pundit. This is in marked contrast to the legions of Conservative toadies in the employee of the CanWest and Sun media papers. Then again Conservative supporters care not about worn out liberal notions such as objectivity, balance, and fairness. They would agree with Marx: the point is not to explain the world but to change it. For Conservatives suppor ters it thus does not matter a lick that Canada’s pundits are incapable of doing the job they were hired to do, viz., to make the Canadian political scene explicable. It only matters that they be signing the right tune. Fear not. This will leave room for some criticism. After all, pundits can always be criticized for going off key. |
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