Another US Campaign Ad Lampoons Canada
October 28, 2006 · By Tom Cerber
Last week it was a Republican ad running in Tennessee.
This week it’s a Republican incumbent in Houston for the Texas state house. Geeky Canook accent and all.
UPDATE: It turns out the Democrat Ellen Cohen, the target of the ad, isn’t even Canadian. The Houston Chronicle explains:
And the best we here in Houston can get is Houston state Rep. Martha Wong running a bizarre ad featuring a cartoon representation of her challenger, Democrat Ellen Cohen. A male voice with a bad Canadian accent says, “Hello. I’m Martha Cohen, the tax-increase lady. And I moved here from Canada, the land of big government and big taxes.”
Cohen admits to being guilty of moving here from Montreal. She married a Canadian and moved there in 1960.
She was born in Cleveland, attended Ohio State and has lived in Houston since 1977.
That’s right. The rest of the country is getting sex, violence and 17-carat sleaze.
And we get an accusation that a candidate lived in Canada. What are we Texans doing wrong?
I’m unsure what Texans have against Ohians to make it an election issue, but maybe someone at NLT, which is based in Ohio, could explain that.
I swear, sometimes the Americans just don’t get it. People compare the Conservatives to the Republicans, and this is the thanks we get from our allies?
As much as I love the CPC, I must say, I really find myself loathing every American political party.
That’s just too funny. She must be a Liberal in exile.
I don’t understand. The ad is correct, isn’t it? Canadians have high taxes. I would actually compare the Conservatives to a more left-wing version of the Democratic Party in the U.S. You realize how right-wing things are in America, don’t you?
“I swear, sometimes the Americans just don’t get it. People compare the Conservatives to the Republicans, and this is the thanks we get from our allies?”
While Republicans are enthused that Canada is stepping rightward towards more conservative platforms, make no mistake that what passes for a conservative there would most likely be a Democrat here.
I have been told by Republican US friends that our Liberals are like their communists and our Conservatives are like far left Democrats. They do not in any way shape or form identify with Stephen Harper or consider him right wing or even conservative by their standards.
Go figure huh.
“Huh”? Whatever happened to go figure “eh”?