Today’s reminder from the media to vote liberal
This lesson involves informing us that some third-rate has-been former nobodies who assist or did assist some other people who are or have been a member of the Conservative Party, one of whom has to remain anonymous for reasons of NOTHING… are liberals and are in favor of gay marriage.
DAN DUGAS [Canadian Press via Yahoo News]
OTTAWA (CP) – Conservative Leader Stephen Harper’s position on gay marriage may play well with most of his MPs on the surface, but it exposes deep divisions that remain after the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative wedding.
While former Alliance members appear comfortable with Harper’s decision to launch an ad campaign against same-sex marriage, many ex-Tories are decidedly uncomfortable. Marie-Josee Lapointe, former press secretary to Tory Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, calls Harper’s stance “bad strategy that’s left me completely flabbergasted.”
“Have we no respect for the rule of law? . . . We are supposed to be the party that stands for the rights of individuals. Times have changed and it’s time we changed with them.”
Lapointe, whose public relations company is doing work for social groups opposed to the Conservative position, said the courts have made clear what their interpretation of the law is and Harper should accept that.
“The ad says: ‘Where do you draw the line?’ How about right here, Mr. Harper?” she said.
“We’ve found a way to divide the nation when we should be looking at ways of uniting it.”
(my bolding)
OK: Marie-Josee
WHO
? Former press secretary to who what to when and why do we care what common ex-staff people think about anything? Did Mr. Dugas question the janitor?
And ‘scuse me did he say “it exposes deep divisions”? Yes I thought so. This is deep?
There are also doubts in Atlantic Canada, where the four provinces are run by Conservative premiers.
“This is bizarre, way out there,” said a senior adviser to Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm.
Hamm has not spent five minutes on the issue, nor has it ever come up in any meaningful way, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
(my bolding)
“Senior advisor”? Un-named? Is it top secret? “The official” would only agree to this “secret” revelation on the condition of total anonymity? And he speaks FOR the Premier? Officially? In secret?
“The strategy has got our political people just shaking their heads. Is this where you draw the line, really? How about dealing with issues that really affect our lives.”
Harper’s strategy has also raised concerns on another level as well.
His decision to launch the ads without consulting his deputy leader, Nova Scotia MP Peter MacKay, reignited talk in some circles about just how involved former Progressive Conservatives are in the new party’s direction.
MacKay has said the ads took him by surprise.
Mackay is a well-known pro gay-‘marriage’ man. He’s the “progressive” in “Progressive Conservative” just like Brian Mulroney and apparently his former senior special press secretary aid and speaker of all get-out Marie-Josee LaWhatever. Stephen Harper helped create a party to fight against the Progressive Conservative Party. Maybe Dugas should get a secret informer from the Swedish football team to backup this account!
Harper has also drawn criticism for musing that gay marriage could lead to legalized polygamy.
He’s also drawn praise for having the balls to comment (or “musing” as Dugas so quaintly puts it) on the LIBERALS who BROUGHT POLYGAMY UP IN THE FIRST PLACE by launching a study into the matter after pressing forward with their emergency gay-marriage bill.
Tory Brad Green, New Brunswick’s attorney general, moved quickly to dispel that suggestion, but he would not pass judgment on Harper’s tactics.
“Polygamy is not an issue I have heard raised by anyone in the province of New Brunswick,” he said.
My wife and I don’t talk about it either but we’re still voting for the conservative candidate in our riding next chance we get! What on earth did that last bit have to do with anything?
This is among the stupidest and most biased “news” stories I’ve read in a few days. The “reporter”, and I use that term very lightly, actually, and obviously had to DIG for this oh-so-huge “division” within the Conservative Party, and only found it within nobodies and FORMER nobodies who are anonymous and pro gay-marriage. Superb work, liberal media!
Bring on Fox News Channel (which is now available in Canada to Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco and Star*Choice subscribers)!
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