I just posted my own latest column in the columnist section. It’s a feature-length column and by that I mean I’m not chintzy on the verbage. OK it’s a long one. It takes 10 minutes to read.
I called it “Liberals now fully represented in Canada” and it is a summary of my feelings after the Conservative Party policy convention this weekend.
Here’s a snippet:
The arrogant notion (dare I say calculated risk?) among most Conservative Party rank and file members and supporters—that social-conservative minded people will vote for the Conservative Party “by default”, despite the party taking a left-wing, liberal policy stand on social issues just to get into power on the cheap—is wrong-headed. It’s so dumb it makes me cringe to think that I now find I’ve been supporting yet another liberal party.
Liberals in Canada—who are now apparently represented in Canada by both major parties—constantly cajole me for making comparisons between us conservatives and the Americans and the Republican Party. Liberals make out like they’re aliens from a far-off planet and under no circumstance can any possible comparison be made, so different are we and they. How utterly stupid.
I regularly bring up how the conservatives succeeded in increasing the Republican Party vote only when they figured out that they needed to trumpet their social-conservatives values. But as I’ve yelled back to the deaf liberals when they go ballistic on me every day (no wonder they’re against Ballistic Missile Defence), to avoid looking at their example is to be typically liberal and provincial in thinking—indeed this head-in-the-sand mentality seems to be becoming a trademark of being Canadian.
Don’t worry, I left you lots more to read as I said.
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