In today’s Sun: the connection election selection

Connection. You have it or you don’t.

Oh, sure, the Cons have laboured mightily to craft an Everyman persona for Stephen Harper. They’ve expended a few fortunes to convince you hockey rinks and Tim Hortons franchises are the summit of all Canuck wisdom — and it is Harper alone who loves it there.

Pardon me, but that’s horseshit. If anyone can produce a single undoctored photograph of Stephen Harper lined up for a double-double at a Tim Hortons prior to the 2004 election campaign, we’ll happily post it in this space and issue the requisite mea culpa. But they can’t.

The Tim Hortons thing, like every other political affectation that preceded it, is the invention of boys in the backroom. It’s BS. Ipso facto, he doesn’t connect.


Why Harper is crazy to campaign now

Check this out:

“Almost a year after that, Carson was charged by Ottawa police with the misappropriation of funds. At that time, he was living on Colonel By Drive. The charges included two counts of theft, two counts of forgery and one count of uttering a forged cheque. In December, he pleaded guilty to the charges, and in February 1983, Carson was sentenced to 18 months in jail.”

I met this guy at the 2006 Liberal leadership convention. To the Cons present, he was clearly a big deal. They flitted around him like flies.

And Harper had hired him to work in PMO – after the results of his security check were known. After.

He had a Top Secret security clearance.

Why is Harper certifiable to hit the hustings now? Because almost every day will bring a shiny new Carson cruise missile. Right now, investigative reporters are digging away. They won’t stop.

Remember Jaffer? That one had sex and sleaze, too. It went on and on for months.

This one is different. It leads directly into the Office of the Prime Minister.

And, officially, these Reformatories have become what they said they’d destroy. They are the biggest hypocrites in Canadian history, full stop.

They make me sick.


No Plan Man, No Audience

From a sharp-eyed reader in London area:

Warren:

Check out this video (from the fine London Free Press). Wait for it: about midpoint through the report, we see that Hudak – who has been shifting his gaze from left to right, as though scanning his audience – is actually standing in front of nobody except the camera man. Classic.

Click on the image to get the link.


New Grit ads (updated)

They’re solid – a bit too much info being crammed in at the start, but that’s okay.  The fact is that there’s a lot of sleaze to remind people about.

I can tell you the ads will be accompanied by a very, very big ad buy.  In other words, you’ll see them on places other than the Internet.

And, let me say, I love good political ads.  This is a good one.

UPDATE: And look! Life imitates art! And all on the same day, too!


Wellington Street Post

I’ve been super busy, so I haven’t had time to draw your attention to the newest kids on the block, The Wellington Street Post.  It’s an innovative concept, but I have to say that the web site’s design is way too busy and needs some serious simplification.

But bid the WSP welcome!


BCL on Little Timmy

Here:

“Tim Hudak says he’ll go to court over this ad by the Working Families Coalition. What he won’t do is attempt to refute the claims made in the ad by, for example, telling Ontarians what he would actually do if he became Premier. All that stuff’s in his platform, and his platform will be released later. Way later.”


Stupidity-related illness spreads in Ottawa, CJOH has the exclusive at eleven

Did the Prime Minister of all of Canada just use the ongoing tragedy in Japan as an excuse to avoid being inconvenienced by an election?  Really?

There is a bi-partisan outbreak of Dumb Flu in Ottawa, this week.  They should all take two aspirin, get some rest, and not call any of the rest of us for many, many weeks.

UPDATED: Based on this Ipsos, he’s at our very near a majority.  So is Mr. Angry playing a game?