Proud to be a Conservative
Like pretty much every conservative blogger out there, I too have followed the ongoing Liberal Leadership Convention this weekend with great interest. And as I was watching both the candidates’ and the guests’ speeches (even if I didn’t watch all of them) as time went by, I began more and more to feel the smite and burn of the Liberal Party’s deeply arrogant mentality and the ideological distance along with the ever-wider discrepancy between my values and theirs.
Folks, after seeing what I’ve seen over the weekend in Montréal, I have to say something:
I DON’T THINK I COULD BE PROUDER TO BE A CONSERVATIVE NOW. I REALLY DON’T.
I hate the Liberal Party of Canada with all my guts. In fact, I LOATHE them. Pretty much always did. They rule arbitrarily. They are corrupt. They bash the U.S. for more popularity. They think they’re the only ones allowed to rule the country. They are the only ones who support "Canadian values", whatever that means. They don’t stand for anything good. They don’t stand for anything bad. They don’t stand for anything at all, which is why they get reelected all the time! Their positions change from election to election. They don’t have any qualms with supporting one thing at an election, and then supporting its exact opposite the next. Their arrogance knows no bounds.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again now: The Liberal Party represents everything I hate about Canada.
Fortunately, I think Harper - provided he does not screw up big time from now until the election - is not going to have any trouble defeating them and gaining a majority. Even some Liberals, unhappy with their party’s choice, think so.
The Liberals are in big trouble. Their Conservative-demonizing, self-congratulating, U.S.-bashing fest that they DARE call a convention sucked. Look at the Ken Dryden and Jean Chrétien speeches. More and more spewing of self-righteous anti-American hate Liberals are SO GOOD at. And to think they invited Howard Dean to speak for them! I felt ashamed for them. And what the hell is that? Stéphane Dion as leader? Oh, please…
Out of three serious possible contenders for the leadership, (along with Ignatieff and Rae) they chose the only one that represents the OLD Liberal Party of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin (ughhh! Just thinking about these people makes me shiver!) and its corrupt, uncaring ways.
They chose the one that represents the most their stupid self-righteous mentality.
They chose a candidate that actually does NOT speak English (I still can’t get over this one, I’m a native French speaker and I couldn’t figure out what he said in English when not reading off of a teleprompter).
They chose one that has no personality (which is something they actually discredited the Conservatives for doing with Stephen Harper).
They chose a Kyoto-worshipping, (not that stupid, useless "treaty" rearing its ugly head again, please!) socialist, leftist unpopular policy wonk.
They chose Stéphane Dion because they thought he’d help them in Québec (which still would rather vote Conservative than Liberal) *NEWSFLASH* for Liberals: I am from Québec and Stéphane Dion is UNIVERSALLY-hated here. The Clarity Act, which he came up with, is perceived as a blatant federal incursion into Québec powers and is hated by sovereignists and federalists alike.
The Liberals are never going to learn. Ever. To them, being put in the opposition was but a short break from exercising power. "Hey, of course Canada’s "natural governing party" will come back to power!" People of the Liberal Party, there’s a reason you’re NOT IN POWER right now. We’re not going to tell you though, you’re going to have to figure it out…
Anyhoo.
This is laughable, and have you noticed just how freaking much the Liberal Broadcasting Corporation, er… the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation covered it? The last Conservative convention in Montréal didn’t actually enjoy even 10% of the coverage the Liberals had. Tell me again the CBC isn’t biased, leftists, and I’ll openly laugh in your face.
No, seriously folks:
‘Tis a great day to be a Conservative. Stand tall and proud, Tories!
For you, actually, DO stand for something…
Stephen, the coast is clear for your majority government. Please proceed.
I don`t think I`ve found a better summary of my feelings upon the election of Stephane Dion. You really hit the nail on the head.
Comment by Frank Cybulski — December 3, 2006 @ 5:26 pm
Great Post Xman - I like your writing a lot.
Vive la Quebec Unis
Comment by Brian Lemon — December 3, 2006 @ 6:12 pm
Well spoken, the libs are still under the misbegotten impression that they only lost the last election by a fluke of nature or a divine intervention of cosmic proportions.
Their idea of renewal is to anoint a member of the old gang. Dion is so enamoured with his sense of entitlement, he predicts an election in the near future.
He has been falsely empowered to go and fight an election with absolutely no policy under his belt other than to say Canadians deserve liberal rulers.
He and his cohorts may be in for a surprise or as they will say, another fluke of nature.
Comment by Shades of Clarity — December 3, 2006 @ 8:02 pm
Nice post!
I especially like how your predictions for the next election are in no way impeded by reality! http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061204.LIBSFRONT04/TPStory/National
FYI: Winning a majority in Alberta only makes you a majority government in a provincial election.
Comment by JackOCat — December 4, 2006 @ 12:19 pm
Thanks for your nice comments, people. Always appreciated.
Want to see yet another example of how Dion is disliked in Québec?
Click here.
This was originally drawn by Serge Chapleau in 1997, a famous cartoonist in Québec now working for Le Journal de Montréal. That French caption reads as follows in English: “No Mr. Dion, it’s not a delusion, people REALLY do hate you!”
There’s also the complete collection on Stéphane Dion at the McCord Museum in Montréal.
Hilarious…
Comment by Xavier R. Dubé — December 4, 2006 @ 5:54 pm
@JackOCat,
That Strategic Counsel poll reports a Liberal surge that is fueled by post-convention hype. It does not represent a trend in any way.
Sure, the Globe and Mail is reporting that 62% of Quebec liberals are reportedly happy with their party’s choice. It would be suicidal for them not to do so! If you’re a Liberal expressing concerns over the leader choice of your party, OF COURSE you’re not going to go ahead two days after the convention and break the faked “feeling of unity” of your “revamped” party by saying you oppose the new leader!
Plus, I know from my International Relations professor (although he himself did support Dion as leader) here at Bishop’s University, who is president of the Liberal association in the Compton-Stanstead riding and fresh back from the convention that the Québec Liberal delegates reportedly made a hell of a face when they heard the election results two days ago. They were NOT happy to say the least. They know Dion is pretty much toast in Québec.
That same Globe and Mail article here you mentioned also reflects a similar point of view:
“He [Dion] must also seek to overcome doubts about his ability to win an election, especially in Quebec, where he has the image of a hard-line federalist, and members of his own party are nervous about his voter appeal.”
Also, consider the following part of the same article:
“Across Canada, 26 per cent said they would be less likely to vote Liberal now that Mr. Dion is leader, and 20 per cent said they would be more likely; 47 per cent said their vote would be unaffected.”
I don’t know about you, but I personally believe that’s a pickup (albeit small) for Harper’s Conservatives.
Add to that the fact that some prominent Québec MPs will probably be considering a change of career now that Dion is leader (Jean Lapierre, MP for Outremont, totally and openly hates Dion’s guts) and one of them is ALREADY talking about the next leadership race (Denis Coderre) and you have a pretty disunited Liberal party on your hands, which will most likely be unable to get any more MPs elected in Québec, and pretty much everywhere else except of course Ontario.
That is my basis for saying Harper will get a majority. And remember, there’s such a thing as peaking too soon.
But I believe we can hardly call Dion’s latest surge in polls a “peak” at all.
Time will obviously tell, but I can’t say things are not going good for Conservatives.
Comment by Xavier R. Dubé — December 4, 2006 @ 6:27 pm