Voters Punish Phony Conservatives
October 10, 2007 · By Aaron Unruh
Related: The best government that losers can buy.
From a real conservative to you Ontario “conservatives”: Is the message getting through as of yet? Conservatives in Canada are elected by being Conservative, Liberals are elected by being smarmy Practical Men. When Conservatives are smarmy Practical Men, they get creamed.
Don’t want to listen to me? Then listen to recent history:
- Insane Neo-Conservative Mike Harris in 1995: Winner
- Insane Neo-Conservative Mike Harris in 1999: Winner
- Smarmy centrist Ernie Eves in 2003: LOSER
- Smarmy centrist John Tory in 2007: LOSER
Update: I have just finished listening to Dalton McGuinty’s victory speech and am convinced that he is the most offensive politician alive in Canada today. Behind all the syrupy focus group-driven drivel about working together and getting along is…nothing. No substance, no nothing.
Clearly this man is destined to some day lead the Liberal Party of Canada.
Boy, 4 more years of this Dalton experiment is like watching the goofy science teacher blow-up the beakers, you know he’s going to do it but all one can do is get under the desk and hang on to your ass.
Amen, Aaron. Now’s when the truly important election starts… the one to select the next leader of the Ontario PC party.
I would disagree here. Danny Williams won a landslide yesterday and he is very much a centrist. Ernie Eves lost because people were going to throw the Tories out no matter what and if anything the closer he placed himself to Mike Harris the worse he did.
As for John Tory, it was his faith based funding promise that cost him the election, not the fact he wasn’t right wing enough.
The lesson is just watch and learn from what Harper does.
Look at Harper’s campaign–a policy announcement in the morning, with sound bytes and visuals for the media. Take questions from reporters. Have one or two stump speeches in the afternoon/evening. Repeat the next day. Sheesh, Harper set the template for a successful campaign.
And when it comes to policies, don’t abandon your base. Listen to your Conservative friends, not your Liberal enemies, and certainly not the media. Harper is giving his base what he can on democratic reform (fixed elections, expanded voting days, appointing Bert Brown), justice, and taxes.
It’s not everything we want, but it’s way more than we would ever get from the Libs. And Harper is fighting to keep his promises on the Wheat Board, Senate Reform, unpassed justice Bills.
Geez Tory, Harper blazed the way for you, and you didn’t pick up a damn thing.
Miles, Hugo Chavez won in a landslide too.
Danny Williams wasn’t running in Ontario. Completely different electorate, apples and oranges, etc.
I’d agree with you but… it doesn’t make any sense. The federal conservative party right now is more leftwing than the Liberals were. So how do you explain their success?
By the way, Aaron, I wanted to add that I concur 100% on your assessment of Dalton re:
“Behind all the syrupy focus group-driven drivel about working together and getting along is…nothing. No substance, no nothing.”
I also find it hard to understand that voters can’t see beyond the syrupy and completely fake facade and rhetoric. He is a completely empty shell, lacking in any form of cohesive substance whatsoever. Well put.
Unions will have a good feed on the carcass of Ontario over the next four years and they’ll tell us we’re happy.
Heard the great news on my clock radio alarm this morning. Turned it off, rolled over & went back to sleep hoping to wake up later to discover it was only a nightmare I had. Four more years of McGuinty madness? Ontario you have lost it.