• “People will rightly look to PC Leader Tim Hudak for guidance, since his party is leading in the polls. So far, there isn’t much to see. Hudak’s comment that he is consulting “moms and dads and small-business owners” is just inane.” December 10, 2010
• “Some have idly suggested Watson wanted out of Queen’s Park for fear the Liberal reign there was coming to an end, though that’s unlikely given the invisible far-right performance of Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak.” July 28, 2010
• “PC leader Tim Hudak has helped McGuinty by presenting himself as a cartoon character.” May 6, 2010
• “…Tim Hudak’s tactics in opposing the [HST] plan have been juvenile and ineffective. Hudak plays politics like the Ottawa Senators’ Chris Neil plays hockey. There’s lots of banging and crashing, but not much to show on the scoreboard.” December 7, 2009
• “New Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak managed to grab some media attention in his first couple of days on the job, which is pretty important considering that most people have probably never heard of him. Too bad what he had to say was the predictable, kneejerk stuff one has come to expect from opposition leaders…The role of official pest has to be balanced by something of substance, and Hudak has a lot of work to do there.” June 30, 2009

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When you consider the distant, third-place finish by the Liberal Party of Canada, it’s frankly amazing people are still writing about them.

Like, um, I am about to.

In my defence, I plead a legitimate excuse: I’m a Liberal.

For other members of the punditocracy, however — and particularly since the party’s devastating finish in the 2011 federal general election — my suspicion is they continue to write about the Liberal Party purely out of habit. They, too, remember the years when the Grits were the “Natural Governing Party,” and they can’t quite come to grips with what took place on the evening of May 2, 2011.

That, or — as the cliche goes — “if it bleeds, it leads.” The Liberal Party continues to bleed profusely, and reporters have settled in to chronicle the carnage.

Here, then, are some dispatches from the blood-stained Liberal front, and the names of the wounded and the fallen. Strap on your helmets, folks:

 

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He was a good City Editor.

As a PC candidate, he’s about to be less-than-good. I know him.

Oh, and everything he ever wrote about politics?

Well, now we know why he wrote what he did. It was all BS.

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Roxy talks to me all the time.  What’s the big deal?

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[From a scrum he did at the Ontario legislature earlier today.]

Reporter: You’ve got some cracks showing in, I guess, your solidarity.  You have one of your members [Frank Klees] who is trying to make money off this deal.  You have have a former candidate, Mark Mullins from the Dundas area, saying you’re irresponsible for dumping all over this green energy plan. We have [MPP] Toby Barrett telling people you better get in there now and take advantage of these contracts before [Hudak] ends them. I mean, there’s a mixed message there – you’ve got your own members, former members, saying that it is a good deal and you shouldn’t be trying to destroy it.

Tim Hudak: I just disagree with the premise of the question.

 

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“Tory Leader Tim Hudak likes to tell a tale of woe when he gives his standard hydro speech. Pull up a chair and sit down. It goes like this:

At the podium, he paints a picture of Ontario families huddling in the early-morning chill of winter so that sleepy-eyed children can get a hot shower before dawn – all to avoid getting soaked by punitive hydro rates.

“Instead of savings on their hydro bill, families are seeing long lines at the bathroom as budget-conscious families struggle to get everybody showered before 7 a.m. when the prices go up,” he told a recent party fundraising dinner.

That Dickensian image was hard to fathom for the donors who paid up to $1,500 a plate to hear Hudak speak last month. And it’s a stretch for the vast majority of Ontarians with gas-fired – not electric – hot-water heaters.”

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The Harper Government© sure didn’t take long to show us all what they’d do with a majority, eh?

This week, they let a Muslim-hating white supremacist into Canada. For good measure, they gave the creep a platform at the taxpayer-funded National Arts Centre.

Oh, and the creep and his entourage confiscated the notes of Sun Media reporter Jenny Yuen, too. Then one of his thugs called Jenny up late at night, and delivered a dark warning about reporting things that had not been “approved” in advance.

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My Mom and youngest son and me are up at the lake. It’s rainy, so I read Ms. Hebert.

I don’t understand her column, basically. Rob Ford won, for example, because John Tory didn’t run. That’s it. If John had won, what would be left of her theory?

Sometimes it’s that simple: it’s personality-driven. It isn’t about big themes and stuff.

Dalton McGuinty is going to win – I’m quietly confident about that, too. He’s a regular family guy; his main opponent is a smirking, fibbing frat boy.  If you got stuck in the snow one morning, you can picture McGuinty coming over with a shovel to help out.  The other guy? He’s the guy the neighbours don’t like. He’d drive by in his Hummer, listening to Nickelback.

People mainly vote for the person who they think most understands their lives.  That’s it.

Back to clean-up.  Have a good one.

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“A veteran MPP in his caucus stands to cash in on a green energy plan that his boss, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak, wants to scrap or pare back.

In the latest pre-election volley, the Liberal government issued a press release Friday stating that MPP Frank Klees sits on the board of directors of an energy company that has filed an application for a FIT (feed in tariff) contract with respect to the Mar Wind Project, a huge wind turbine project on the Bruce Peninsula.

Hudak announced earlier this week that he would scrap the controversial $7-billion Samsung wind and solar energy deal signed by the Liberals and would only honour those contracts already signed with smaller producers to supply green energy to the Ontario electricity grid.

Klees sits on the board of Tribute Resources and holds stock options in the company based on information supplied in the MPP’s 2010 public disclosure statements.”

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