Last night in Ontario

— 09.07.2012 08:26 AM

Here’s my straight-up views on the by-elections in Vaughan and Kitchener-Waterloo.

  • Liberals: We won huge in Vaughan, in a seat that is comfortably Conservative federally. I didn’t expect we’d win as big as we did.  In Kitchener-Waterloo, we got clobbered in a seat held by the Conservatives for a generation. I didn’t ever expect to win, but I certainly didn’t expect we’d get clobbered, either. We got the message, however. We have work to do.
  • New Democrats: Their win in K-W was significant. Hats off to them. In Vaughan, they were a distant, distant third. They can dismiss that if they like. They probably will, because they’re insufferably pious and pompous. They also have a genetic tendency to equate by-elections with general elections.  I like it when they do that.
  • Conservatives: They lost, badly, in Vaughan, when they should have been much more competitive. They were humiliated in K-W, a riding that has been theirs, as noted, for a quarter-century. My biggest concern, now, is that we will lose Tim Hudak, who – as Jacques Parizeau did after the 1995 referendum, blamed voters, sneering in a prepared official statement that they’d been “bought,” quote unquote.  Like Rob Ford, Hudak is a major Liberal asset. I will pray again, tonight, that his party shrugs off the by-elections and sticks with him. Please, God.

We, however, won’t shrug off the results. By-elections aren’t general elections, as every sensible person knows. We got a sent a message in K-W, however, and we intend to heed it. And act on it.


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Dear Obama

— 09.06.2012 09:55 PM

Britain is America’s “closest ally”? Really?

Thanks for nothing, Mr. President.

Sincerely,

Canada


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K-W and Vaughan take note: Ten reasons not to vote for Andrea Horwath’s Ontario NDP

— 09.06.2012 08:39 AM

  1. She wanted to force an election months after the last one.
  2. She isn’t supported by her own party when it counts. She lets nutcases run for her.
  3. She isn’t honest.  Ever.
  4. She’s hiding where, and how, her party gets money.
  5. She’s lies to the media, and the public, about her party. All the time.
  6. She lies about hard-working frontline health workers, and won’t apologize when caught.
  7. When it matters, nobody thinks she’s terribly impressive.  At all.
  8. She doesn’t tell the truth. She says one thing, does another.
  9. She says she cares about folks who need help, like the disabled.  But she won’t help them.
  10. She doesn’t have a plan. She has crazy policies.

Don’t vote for Horwath’s Ontario NDP.  They don’t deserve your support.


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K-W and Vaughan take note: Ten reasons not to vote for Tim Hudak’s Ontario PCs

— 09.06.2012 08:24 AM

  1. His own party doesn’t like him.
  2. He has crazy policies.
  3. He was prepared to force an election months after the last one.
  4. He is prepared to put politics before peoples’ safety.
  5. His hacks conceived and managed Ornge, and were responsible for the resulting scandal.
  6. His own supporters think he’s leading them into humiliation.They disagree with him all the time.
  7. His caucus is packed with sexist, intolerant old men.
  8. His cabal are knee-deep in scandal at any given time.
  9. His biggest pal and supporter is Rob Ford, now enmeshed in a conflict-of-interest scandal.
  10. He doesn’t like “foreigners.” He doesn’t like gays.

Don’t vote for him, people.  He’s bad news.


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