Monday, August 25, 2008

THE COMING ASSAULT BY HARPER'S GANG ON DION: TRYING TO MAKE HIM INTO DUKAKIS

POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY LAWRENCE MARTIN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL

I'm afraid the job will be all too easy to do.

But that will not mean victory for Harper, the living corpse of Canadian politics.

The polls have steadily shown no real gain for Harper.

And there is good reason for that.

The man has made many errors and poor judgments. Worse, he has demonstrated a highly selective kind of ethics.

He is contentious and divisive in Parliament and towards many Canadians, leaving the impression of a snotty, nasty-tempered frat boy when he doesn’t get his way.

He stays away from China, supposedly out of principle, but the same oaf blames UN observers in Lebanon, including a brave Canadian soldier who died, for being there when Israel targeted them during its savage incursion into that country.

He makes little motions about Canada's sovereignty in the North, but pursues every other avenue possible to please the horrid man in the White House.

He fails to speak up for Canadians caught up in the American security insanity. He deports decent young men who saw the real face of the war crime in Iraq - and it is a war crime. He works through legislation to limit China's opportunities in the tar sands and other investments.

His party in Parliament behaves like a gang of Soviet Apparatchiks. They don't come to committees. They walk out of committees. They refuse to cooperate. I'm surprised they haven't taken to banging the heels of their shoes on desks.

His poor appointments and oversight have genuinely endangered Canadian security and embarrassed the country.

He lacks perspective, giving people a couple of almost meaningless points on GST while squandering billions on other favored matters.

He is a disaster. A majority for him, I believe Canadians understand, would be a catastrophe.

There are other places to park your vote until the Liberal Party puts its house in order.




What an inspiring sight the man is.