The toxicity of a Liberal Party membership
Sheila Copps in the Sun today about Mike Klander:
Klander, the son of hard-working immgirant steelworker parents in Hamilton, rose to great heights in the Liberal party by working hard to fit in. In the Martin backrooms, fitting in tends to mean "old boy" and bathroom humour, and ensuring your place is secured by tearing others down.
I remember when, as a young high school student, he came into my office interested in knowing more about the Liberal party. His father was a diehard New Democrat, but Mike thought the Liberal Party might be a more realisitic way to help people. As a young man, he wanted to get involved to make things better. Over the years, it became simply about the win.
His blog struck me as stunning in its ignorance. No depth there, simply hate. Martin good, everyone else bad.
Is this what belonging to the Liberal Party does to a person? Are they all like this? Are these the Canadian "values" Paul Martin keeps blabbing on about defending? If so, I think I'll look for new values elsewhere. Canada can keep those values, if that's what it means to be Canadian.
If that is the language the Martin Liberals expect to see in print in a pre-election blog, what do they say in private?
I wonder whether it would even occur to the Martin backroom boys that there was anything wrong with the Chow-Chow "separated at birth" posting -- more likely, they would pass it around, smirking at anyone who did not get it.
The same backroom boys use the race card when it will play well for them. "Trade one Sikh candidate for a Ukrainian as long as it will get votes andkeep them quiet," is a view I have actually heard expressed by a key Martin organizer.
Are you a parent with a teenage son or daughter thinking of joining the Young Liberals? Worse yet, already a card-carrying member? Be worried. Be just as concerned as if you caught your son or daughter wearing gang colours.
There is a toxic quality to the Liberals today. It will take time for it to drain away, and then only of the Liberals are ejected into the political wilderness for a long, long time. If that doesn't happen, and your son or daughter begins to move up into the mid to upper echelons of the party, don't be surprised if that poison starts to change them.
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Comments
Payback is a bitch.
There are a lot of pissed Chretienites with long memories.
These folks want to get their party back and they're about to have some fun at Paulie's expense.
Pass me the beer & popcorn.
This should be fun to watch.
Posted by: gwgm at December 28, 2005 03:35 PM
Martin came riding into power as the anti-Chretien. "We're going to do things differently", he said. "We're going to fix the democratic deficit". "We're going to fix western alienation". "We're going to be accountable."
The next Liberal leader, likely to be introduced some time in the next six months, can be expected to ride into town with the promise to get rid of the incompetent, inept, racist, misogynist, homophobic attitudes brought in by Martin and his backroom pariahs. And Martin's legacy, which he was once so certain would be gold, will be nothing more than clanging brass.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.
Posted by: Patrick at December 28, 2005 03:45 PM
"There is a toxic quality to the Liberals today."
You mean, like, say the last 80 years? They have always been around for just one thing: the spoils of power. Give a post-1925 Liberal the choice between his party and Canada, and Canada loses every time. And a great many of them actually think this kind of behaviour is noble.
The Communists were never outlawed in this country, even though they wanted to destroy it. The Libranos are close to deserving what the Communists never got: not because it's right to outlaw a political party, it's not; but because they have a record of being positively disloyal to the system and the country.
Aneurin Bevan once said of the British Conservatives, "so far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin". I'd run with that one for the Libranos.
As for Kladner, he is of the political class. That means, "no class". We have an elite of yobs, and he fits right in.
Posted by: Jim Whyte at December 28, 2005 04:01 PM
Angry,
Check out Bourque right now, he's got a link for the BC Liberal head insulting Layton with derogatory remarks.
Man, is poor Layton and family taking a beating.
Posted by: Biff at December 28, 2005 05:08 PM
It gets even better. The RCMP is launching an investigation into the Income Trust insider trading scandal.
It's getting tough to keep track of all the crimes and scandals.
Posted by: gwgm at December 28, 2005 05:35 PM
Oh, it's so over for the Libs!
Posted by: Biff at December 28, 2005 05:49 PM
Biff: Where do I find out info on Bourque? Not quite upto speed with all of the sites yet. Thankyou.
Re: Income Trust
Thank goodness for this, but remember that it is the RCMP and who do they report too? PMPM unless this investigation comes in AFTER the election.
The CP's and the NDP have got to stand their ground on this one! The Lieberal's have got no class, no respect and remind me of a bunch of pigs rolling in the mud. Expect even pigs have more class! They need to stop the personal attacks on individual members and get on with some policies!!! Not that it matters to me what they say anymore. Lies, Lies, Lies!
Posted by: MaryM at December 28, 2005 05:54 PM
Try this:
http://www.bourque.org/
Remember though, the Bourque family are Liebral toadies and he always manages to present the thieving Librano Family in a good light.
Posted by: Slim at December 28, 2005 06:17 PM
Thanks Slim, I just wanted to get a screen save on another distusting use of picture's. This guy needs to get a real job! No one would hire him.
Alot of this information regarding scandals an pictures have not been covered widely in BC. Maybe that would explain why the Liebreal's have their foot still in the door. Hopefully the people in this province will quite relying on info just from the media. Most people do not understand the ties between the media (press) and the Liebreals!
Posted by: MaryM at December 28, 2005 07:05 PM
 
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