Jack Layton...mainstream?
I watched a bit of QP rerun tonight and observed some of the attacks (the theatrics actually) of the opposition.Frankly what I see is the liberals using the old "ratpack" playbook they used against Mulroney. The problem for this worn out tactic is that this isn't the second term of a conservative government and the PM isn't Mulroney.
This "beer and popcorn" ad hom from one of the contenders for the race for leader of the opposition is just the latest example (there will be more).
The individual in question thought it would be very witty no doubt to contend that because the liberal child indoctrination program (which they like to call a national childcare program) got axed by the present government, she thought it was wise that more jails where going to be built because there will be more crime now.
So lets get this straight, a previous liberal government is well the previous government, meaning they don't set the agenda anymore. So logically the government in power now, that would be the conservative one, has cancelled the plan, which to be intellectually honest, that was what Harper campaigned on.
So what does this have to do with todays question period?
I alluded to the liberals "rat pack" style attack against the Harper government and why it won't work. Here's the crux of it. It won't stick, because unlike Mulroney Harper doesn't have a pathological desire to be loved. That and the liberals are shooting themselves when they attack Harper for a broken promise they made and there's the reason you'll be treated to the b&p commentary, they still believe they have the divine right to rule and by extension the right to define Canadian.
During their leadership race It won't matter what big ideas they can manage to co-opt from another party, or if they can fabricate a leadership messiah, or find enough "mania" to create some juggernaut that will bring them "the biggest majority ever". Its about arrogance folks, and if there is one thing Canadians won't cotton to it's a bunch of elitist know-it-alls that believe only they have all the answers.
This attitude comes across that as far as they are concerned:
Parents can't raise their own kids.
Parents can't handle $100 a month.
Health care is a very complex issue.
Legitimate gun owners are unable to secure their own weapons.
Natives can't make it out in the real world on their own.
Drug addicts need safe injection sites.
If marijana was decriminalized drugs wouldn't be a problem.
Street gangs need basketball courts.
Prostitutes need trade unions and safe place to ply their "trade".
Global warming won't go away unless we buy some hot air credits from countries that are polluting.
"People can't help themselves, they need our (liberal) guidance."
Its like they forgot what the concept of free will actually means.
Now here's a shock for any so-called liberals that happened to get lost in a late night web browse and found yourself here. The majority of Canadians are folks that go to work and make a fair wage for a fair days work, then they go home to their families and they sit down to dinner together. Heck some of them even say grace. Then afterwards, unlike the minority of us political watcher types, they might watch some TV, but not if the weather is good. They go outside and meet with friends. On Sunday some of them go to church, or not. You see these people around you all the time. But where you don't see them is at a protest march or being a rent a mob for the cause of the moment.
Here's another shock for you, about 99.9 % are not into alternative lifestyles.
The majority are Joe and Jane Sixpack. Ordinary folks, with ordinary lives.
Maybe their kid needs braces, or plays on the little league team. They might be a two income family, they might not. For that matter the wages they make are pretty average, not six figure, but they manage what they have, and if the government would quit coming up with "social programs" to advance the latest cause du jour they may just be able to hang on to a little bit more of it. I guarantee you that if the government doesn't have a national program to babysit their pre-school kids they would still muddle through. People do that, they encounter difficulties in life, they overcome them, or they adjust and adapt to the new reality.
Nobody said life was suppose to be easy...except liberals.
But I digress.
The liberal party better start channelling something else besides Trudeau's spirit before they completely lose any capacity to connect to canadians. This "we know whats best for you" isn't it.
Here's a clue.
Whats the one city Canadian's love to hate?
Now, how many of the liberal leadership contenders are from somewhere other than Toronto?
About three...that leaves 8 from the center of the universe.
Get the picture.
Because as long as they are stuck on trying to accuse Harper of either not following through on their promises, or that he has some "secret agenda", they better get used to not only sitting in opposition for a long while, they should also get prepared for a future seeing JacK Layton stand up when the speaker recognizes the leader of the opposition.
Stephen Harper has seemed to grasp this reality quite well....thats why he's the Prime Minister now and Paul Martin isn't.
posted by gimbol @ 8:49 PM
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