I know that a lot of reports are suggesting that Fratboy Tim has dropped the anti-“foreigner” garbage because he’s slipping in various polls. It seemed that way to me, too.

But the fact is he he hasn’t, as this and this and this make clear. He and his team of xenophobes are now just trying to do it in a way that you won’t notice.

Either way, all of us know what it for what it is. Like Dan Gardner wrote, this afternoon, ‎”[Hudak] drags up hatreds and waves them for all to see, hoping that ugly emotions will serve his political purposes.”

So, if I was updating this for a new edition, I’d be including a few passages about the shameful politics practiced by Tim Hudak and his party in the Fall of 2011.

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For those of you outside Toronto, that’s Rob Ford behind the wheel of the car. He should have had Stephen Harper in the passenger seat.

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…but he does it when he hopes no one is looking.  Anyone else experiencing this sort of thing?  Email wkinsella@hotmail.com if so.

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This is beyond ironic, and into something beyond irony.  Wow.

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Now GritChik has caught Hudak’s bus (hi, Jason!) breaking the law.

Some tough-on-crime campaign, eh?

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…which, of course, she shouldn’t.  But it was worth a shot.

“Tim Hudak?  Never heard of him.”

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Click on it to get to Chris Blizzard’s column, too.

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The Tea Party North apparatchiks were in high dudgeon, yesterday, that we had drawn attention to the fact that their law-and-order stunts were highly suspicious – particularly their fondness for GPS bracelets, when (a) the police had said the bracelets won’t work, at all, and (b) the producer of same was a big old Tory contributor, one even identified in their Changebook.  Their anger, I thought, was a bit odd.

Now we all know why.  Eventually, in politics, all things become clear.

“A Leamington mom who spent months with nine others protesting when a convicted sex offender moved next to their neighbourhood elementary school is accusing Tory Leader Tim Hudak of using their group for political gain.

Cynthia Raheb said before Hudak made a campaign stop in Leamington Wednesday, a PC spokesman contacted them Monday.

A group member was asked if they would support and stand with the PC leader for the media while he reiterated his promise to make the provincial government’s sex-offender registry public and to outfit sexual and other violent offenders with GPS bracelets.

After a group meeting, the 10 moms decided against the idea.

Wednesday morning, at a Leamington community centre, Hudak posed in a photo with six people who were described on CBC’s website as “a group of parents in Leamington, Ont., who protested after they learned a convicted sex offender lived in their neighbourhood.”

However, Raheb said she doesn’t know who the people are and that they never protested with their group.

She was shocked.

“To have somebody do that behind our backs really presents the issue of how honest and how far they will go to implement what they’re saying,” a livid Raheb said. “I mean how much can you trust them at this point now?”

Raheb said this has dramatically changed her attitude toward the Conservatives.“

 

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That’s what Ontario NDP Andrea Horwath said.  That’s a quote. Then, this afternoon, Toronto Star veteran Richard Brennan spotted this in Ottawa.

Bottom line?  Either Horwath didn’t mean what she said, or her followers don’t listen to her.  Neither possibility is helpful to her prospects.

Personally, I’m interested in how widespread this distasteful practice is.  If you spot another example of an NDP campaign trying to profit (politically or otherwise) on the passing of Jack Layton, let me know in comments or at wkinsella@hotmail.com.  Then I’ll post what you find.

Oh, and Andrea?  This is one of those reasons why so many regard your leadership as a great big disappointment.

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