The Calgary Sun’s Licia Corbella has an excellent little interview-ette with Stephen Harper, with Mr. Harper setting a few things straight regarding the ever-negative, ever-liberal media which is as intent as always on damaging the Conservative Party.
[…] Yesterday, Harper—leader of Her Majesty’s loyal opposition—just shrugged and even chuckled at the negative press he’s received of late.
“I don’t expect any different, to be honest,” said Harper, sipping on an orange juice at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel.
“It doesn’t matter who the Conservative leader is—Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, Preston Manning, Stockwell Day—you name the Conservative leader, the media doesn’t like them,” added Harper.
“Remember the predictions,” he asked. “I was never supposed to be elected to parliament in the first place,” he said, referring to the 1993 general election when he won his Calgary West seat and the Reform Party defied the polls and shocked those same pundits by winning 52 seats.
“I was never supposed to be the elected leader of the opposition, it was never supposed to have been possible for me and Peter (MacKay) to unite the parties, I was never supposed to knock Paul Martin from forming a majority government and so now they will say there’s no way I can ever win the next election,” he added.
“So negative predictions don’t really faze me.”
And there have been many of late—coming from the usual suspects.
For weeks so-called “national” newspapers kept reporting that a huge movement was afoot to hoist Harper as leader. […]
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