But tyke, the baby has horns and cloven hooves, and that's not bathwater, it's bath lighter fluid -g- .... i think any bunch that so gliberally promotes themselves as the Natural Governing Party has got to go, real soon, they're not humble anymore ... do you really think much of anything is changed by switching from Chrétien to Martin? ... not many do ... it's a long long time since there was meaningful change in Ottawa, it's time to rock their world
That bit about the name 'Conservative' was not well thought, i didn't make it plain i meant the sort of Old Tory who was around in the days of the classic liberals following Burke and Adam Smith ... Wellington, Palmerston, Disraeli, Peel, like that ... canadian equivalent would be the Family Compact bunch i guess, Bond Head et al, but since then that flavour of politics has never applied here, where the most 'right' we ever get is to sort of a lapsed classic liberal ... but that doesn't stop competitors of the real-liberal party du jour from tarring them with the old-time brush, an activity made a little easier i think due to retained cachet in the big-C Conservative name
Funny how the labels got all switched around, it's US influence on the language of course ... Harper's tories are actually the real liberals today, provided that he is able to stifle the social conservatives, who don't have anywhere near the numbers to be a threat here, but who really are in their narrow areas of concern a throwback to old-toryism ... there is zero risk that they will get their pet policies implemented, imho, but a fair bit of risk that they will mouth it up and distract from issues of substance |
