The Con platform: Wherry asks the key question
We all know the reality, anyway. The reality is that these guys are making it up as they go along, and are hoping no one will notice.
I guess we did.
We all know the reality, anyway. The reality is that these guys are making it up as they go along, and are hoping no one will notice.
I guess we did.
Rocco Rossi, a.k.a. Benedict Baldy, has been going door-to-door for his new federal party of choice, the Conservatives. The Con candidate in Eg-Lawrence is Joe Oliver. The Liberal incumbent is Joe Volpe.
When he gets to an Italian family’s door, he asks the older folks therein if they “will take a sign for [his] friend Joe.”
They say yes, thinking he means Joe Volpe, not Joe Oliver.
The next morning, a blue sign is on their lawn, and the family is upset by BB’s dishonesty. They are registering their unhappiness, big time. Some with media.
Benedict Baldy: a man of integrity and honesty.
Not, as Bev Odious would say.
Sigh. Seeing these little fellows makes me so nostalgic.
And, what with Harper being (a) too chicken to debate Ignatieff one-on-one (b) too chicken to take media questions and (c) too chicken to permit polite girls into his rallies, I think they should follow him everywhere on this campaign, don’t you?
How interesting. His name is Snover Dhillon, and he’s been in a spot of trouble with the law – Bruce Carson-type trouble.
Here’s a nice picture of him, a couple other guys, and Timmy. Oddly, this photo disappeared from Conservative Party web sites in the past 24 hours. Must have been an administrative error. Happily, however, an upset Ontario PC member sent me a copy they’d kept.
I know Timmy would want to have a keepsake of the moment, so here it is. Clip and save, Timmy! You could start a crime-fighting scrapbook!
Here’s a little experiment: fast – anyone know the name of the Conservative Party president? Anyone remember ever hearing from him/her, about anything? Anyone?
You can’t, can you?
Exactly.
As I told a group of Ontario Liberal staffers last night, it all strikingly resembles the Manning-Mulroney divide – which led, in the end, to the Conservative Party dividing in two, and more than a decade of Liberal rule.
The next few months are going to be interesting.
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