On the heels of the Conservative Party convention, lots of weird things are going on. Squabbles and infighting, statements that will later be regretted, and pictures of Harper dogs being emailed around. The Harper dog thing is among the goofiest though.
I would have gone with a pussy cat on his right foot. The foot that says MEOW.
Satiric photo dogs Harper
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By MARIA MCCLINTOCK, OTTAWA BUREAU
Toronto SunSTEPHEN HARPER is a dog of a leader, according to a picture sent out to Conservative delegates who will vote on his leadership at the party’s upcoming convention in Montreal. The doctored picture has Harper’s head pasted on the body of a dog over the headline, “This Dog Don’t Hunt,” and was mass e-mailed to delegates yesterday.
It’s believed to be the work of hard-core right-wingers in the party who fear the Tory boss is turning the party into “Liberal Lite.”
“A lot of growling has resulted from its distribution. The regional organizers are in a tizzy and trying to get a muzzle on someone,” one Ontario delegate said of the picture. “Everybody is playing the blame game.”
Gerry Nicholls of the National Citizens Coalition, where Harper once worked, said there’s “concern” among conservatives about the direction he’s taking the party.
“A lot people who belong to the Conservative Party want the party to be a real small-C conservative alternative to the Liberal party,” said Nicholls. “There’s some concern that the party is getting wishy-washy on certain issues.”
Tom Thompson, riding association president for Ottawa-Centre, called the doctored photo “foolish” and political shenanigans.
“You’re always going to have some fool out there whose going to try and throw stuff out such as that,” Thompson said.
Harper’s spokesman, Geoff Norquay, said he “wouldn’t dignify this kind of silliness with a serious comment.”
…Harper’s spokesman should dignify this silliness with at least an unserious comment, then. See, he could have had a great come-back—he could have volleyed back. Instead, he let Triumph the Insult Comic Dog poop on him. That’s half the complaint. But they don’t get it.
And one other thing: I don’t think you have to be a “hard-core right-winger”, as the reporter Maria McClintock put it, to want the Conservative Party to stick to its traditional, i.e., conservative roots. That’s a bit of spin on a story that could be seen as tendentious, and coming from a liberal point of view.
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