A reader (hat tip Hedplug) wrote a comment in Paul Jackson’s second-to-last column which really rang true with me. He suggested we all read Val Sear’s column today (Oct 25) in the Ottawa Sun. He (Hedplug) wrote:
For fun and contrast, read Mr. Jackson’s editorial then read Mr. Sears of the Ottawa Sun and see if you can smell a difference. While some journalists like Mr. Jackson are willing to call a spade a spade, some like Mr. Sears feel “purity over power” is the road to oblivion for the PCs. He suggests Mr. Harper should get a new catchy bumper sticker. How about “Vote PC: At Least We’re Honest”.
I read Val Sears’ column today and I couldn’t disagree more with it if I were paid a million bucks.
Watch out for people like Val Sears, conservatives. Here’s why:
Like so many liberals in Canada who pretend they’re either “objective”, “moderate”, or even “conservative”, (whatever they call themselves is at best suspect to me), Sears appears to feel threatened by the emerging Conservative Party and conservatives generally, and because they as liberals are actually bereft of any ideas themselves, they feel their only option is to pretend that the conservative movement is failing—when in fact that’s a lie.
They adhere like glue to the Canadian liberal-left and socialist maxim that in order to build yourself up, you have to tear someone else down.
In his column he uses figures from a poll that’s already proven to be the anomaly—wrong, I figure—among several recent polls which all show the CPC to be within striking distance of the big win. The “latest poll” that Sears cites does NOT show a 13 point lead for the Liberals as he reports, but rather a 5 point lead. So he either lied, forgot, overlooked important facts, or he is embarrassingly misinformed for a political writer. I’ll leave it to you to decide. Reminder: he works for a paper with stats and facts and researchers coming out the yin yang.
He based his column —which manifestly portends Conservative demise —on a report written by a former NDP national secretary “with good genes”; and Graham Fox, a former chief of staff to Joe Clark—yes, Joe Clark of the “I’m voting liberal” in the last election, fame! Watch for great, earnest advice coming up for Conservatives!, we’re to believe.
Once they’re on the “CPC is failing” tirade, they then seek to pretend that the reason (which they pretend to earnestly care about and share with us as a “public service” to the conservatives of the world) is that the CPC is wacked-out with religious-right freakazoid “fundamentalists”, and that the best option is to move way, way over to the left, where Val Sears and all liberals and socialists would like everybody to be. They call this “opening up the party” or “broadening the base” and “being a ‘big tent’ party”. In actual fact it’s making the last vestige of conservatism LIBERAL-LEFT—as they would like it to be—thus rendering Canada devoid of any conservative political option. It’s one of the reasons they constantly tear down Christianity, for example.
Val Sears writes:
The Conservative leader has to compromise on his same-sex marriage crusade, reconsider his endorsement of missile defence, design a way to allow the Atlantic provinces to benefit from Alberta’s obscenely rich oil revenues.
Why not simply merge with Jack Layton’s socialists, Mr. Sears? Wouldn’t that ultimately make the most sense to you?
Whenever he or any other pundit pretends that the problem with the conservative movement in Canada or the CPC itself is the lack of a bumper sticker, some juicy (liberal-left) talking points, or that “they’re too far to the right”, and yet they fail to mention—as the actual culprit—the media and academia and propagandists like himself who are trying to make conservatives into liberals, then you know you’re dealing with another mendacious liberal, and that they’re up to no good. Take Belinda Stronach. Oh they already did. Good. Now take the rest of them too. That’s half the solution right there.
The CPC should adhere to the good, principled right; be conservatives; declare it firmly and confidently; shout it out and explain why with all their good reasons and there are an unending supply; and then they will win like never before—because I think that’s where Canadians actually are in their heart of hearts. Move the center over to the right, not the other way around! Canadians are hesitant about a wishy-washy party that hasn’t come out and fully and proudly declared its solid conservatism —not about a party that hasn’t declared it’s Liberal-Too-ism. Know what they’re waiting for. Act on it!
Conservatives should also expose liberals for what they are and call them out every time.
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