— Musings —10.11.2012 06:37 AM
— Musings —10.11.2012 06:37 AM
Tim Hudak, the gift that keeps on giving. 🙂
Must be tough times for many at The Sun as even they are realizing that Hudak and Ford are pretty much lost causes. The Mel Lastman on RoFo article today was also pretty great.
“She also knows there are Liberal MPPs who share the pro-life views of the three Tories.”
And there are Liberal MPPs (and MPs) who vote with the Tories on this issue.
Even if all you say is true, they aren’t out there sponsoring press conferences.
Because Liberals are at risk of losing power provincially, and voters have a restraining order against them getting 50 feet near a majority federally. And because the Liberal pro life caucus used to meet in secret, which made them all the more insidious.
OUSTED IN 2008
Bonin, Raymond – Nickel Belt Ontario
Chan, Raymond – Richmond British Columbia
Cullen, Roy – Etobicoke North Ontario
Dhaliwal, Sukh – Newton-North Delta British Columbia
Hubbard, Charles – Miramichi New Brunswick
Maloney, John – Welland Ontario
McGuire, Joe – Egmont Prince Edward Island
Simard, Raymond – Saint Boniface Manitoba
St. Amand, Lloyd – Brant Ontario
Steckle, Paul – Huron-Bruce Ontario
Valley, Roger – Kenora Ontario
Wappel, Tom – Scarborough Southwest Ontario
OUSTED IN 2011
Cannis, John – Scarborough Centre Ontario
Guarnieri, Albina – Mississauga East-Cooksville Ontario
Lee, Derek – Scarborough-Rouge River Ontario
McTeague, Dan – Pickering-Scarborough East Ontario
Murphy, Shawn – Charlottetown Prince Edward Island
Szabo, Paul – Mississauga South Ontario
Thibault, Robert – West Nova Nova Scotia
Tonks, Alan – York South-Weston Ontario
Wrzesnewskyj, Borys – Etobicoke Centre Ontario
STILL A PRO LIFE VOTE
Karygiannis, Jim – Scarborough-Agincourt Ontario
MacAulay, Lawrence – Cardigan Prince Edward Island
Malhi, Gurbax – Bramalea-Gore-Malton Ontario
McKay, John – Scarborough-Guildwood Ontario
Scarpaleggia, Francis – Lac-Saint-Louis Québec
Will you help to remove these last few threats to women’s rights and gay rights from office, and replace them with a progressive alternative?
Any of those Ontario provincial Liberals? Didn’t think so.
I feel some sympathy for party leaders in general. Harper is criticized for imposing total message control from the Kremlin, I mean the PCO, and Hudak, along with other opposition leaders past and present, is mocked for allowing his members some latitude. I don’t like either Harper or Hudak. I support a woman’s right to choose. But I’d really like to see a more adult political environment that allows politicians of all stripes to speak for themselves and be judged by their voters. I know, I’m dreaming.
I wonder if there’s a poll that shows what percentage of voters don’t much care either way, or who fall somewhere in the middle and think “abortion isn’t an ideal thing, but it ought to be an individual decision, but maybe there ought to be some kind of laws, maybe”.
Instead, it seems to be a debate between two utterly hysterical sides. “ITS NOTHING BUT MURDER!!!”……”GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY BODY!!!!”. It fills up my Facebook timeline. It fills up my Twitter feed. Cripes.
You may want to ask Randy Hillier why he’s helping raise funds for the group trying to bring in Terry Jones.
Yeah, Randy’s at it again up here.