Toronto Sun columnist Linda Williamson is echoing lots of conservatives’ thoughts these days, including mine. Her questions revolve around the budget, but I’ve extended them to general social policy (abortions, gay ‘marriage’, and other conservative ideals), and to foreign affairs and more, and I’ve asked, where’s the party?
It’s been almost a year since the Conservative party reunited itself under leader Stephen Harper, who promptly told his cheering members: “There’s going to be a takeover: The Conservatives taking over the government of Canada.”
Yet last week, the familiar refrain could still be heard throughout the land, on talk radio, in letters to the editor, and among the small-c (and even large-c) conservatives of my acquaintance: “We still don’t have a conservative alternative in this country.”
[…] Heavens, if Conservative principles now include national daycare, Kyoto, hiding money in foundations and starving our military for another four years or so, we might as well vote NDP.
[…] Where’s Harper’s sardonic edge (and yes, he has one)? Couldn’t he say something like, “We support tax cuts and military spending—but we would actually deliver them”? Couldn’t he at least point out that the budget document proves his party’s platform in the last election was absolutely right? Remember, it was based on spending giant surpluses on priorities like the military, health care and tax cuts instead of hoarding them; the Liberals trashed the Tory calculations as dangerous fantasy, but now their own numbers indicate the plan would have been quite feasible.
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