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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SofaSpud who wrote (192)	11/25/2002 11:28:54 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 443

draftlewis.com - what if Lewis MacKenzie stood for the tories? .... universally revered by us all, except maybe a few members of the general staff and the PMO, he'd be a formidable opponent ... and the tory party would not die a quiet death like it ought to, so non-Liberals would remain fractured, get even more so perhaps ... mmmm .. i haven't heard much on this, just found the url to this site in a newspaper .... cheers ' By ALLAN FOTHERINGHAM Saturday, April 20, 2002 – Print Edition, Page A2 Joe Clark, as we all know, is dead but won't lie down. Northrop Frye used to say that charisma is the Greek word for ham. Joe died of another fancy word --hubris. When his sad party -- Dalton Camp, where are you when we need you? -- replaces him at their August convention, they will find that Peter MacKay, the dauphin, is a nice lad but needs a few more seasons at shortstop before being ready for the big leagues. The solution? Simple, if the backroom boys -- Hughie Segal, Peter White (B. Mulroney in the bullpen with Conrad lurking by e-mail) -- have the balls to do it. There is no law that decrees the new leader must come from the Conservative caucus. The obvious choice is a chap the Tories neglected in the 1997 federal toss: Lewis MacKenzie. He is our only living military hero (hello there, Billy Bishop), his leadership in the former Yugoslavia highlighted when a local mayor was revealed to have lied to him, as to hidden insurgents within, and MacKenzie coldcocked him, rendering him horizontal with one punch. He is the only political candidate I have ever heard, aside from P. Trudeau, who can stand on his hind feet and rivet -- without a note -- an audience for 30 minutes. (Anyone who speaks, after the rubber chicken, for 20 minutes should be shot.) MacKenzie gets away with the rule. For some strange reason, the Conservative brains (an oxymoron?) gave him little help or money in his bid as the Tory candidate in the Parry Sound-Muskoka riding. J. Chrétien's Grits, the emperors of patronage, solidified the riding by putting in a large penitentiary, which naturally employed every unemployed Liberal in the constituency, and ensured the election of some minion who has never been heard of in Ottawa ever since. For some strange reason(purposeful perhaps?) no Conservative heavyweights from Toronto or Ottawa came up to offer MacKenzie any platform help. Perhaps fearful of a one-punch guy,with potentially fearsome presence on the Tory frontbench in Question Period/TV time? Who knows? Only The Shadow knows. He is "only" 61, which my math puts him younger than Martin, Chrétien or Jurassic. His tum is washboard. As someone who has invented both B. Mulroney and P.Martin as future prime ministers -- a .500 batting average that even Babe Ruth would accept -- this scribbler would suggest that the Tories come out of the outfield with a surprise pinch-hitter who could dazzle the electorate with his honesty and his mastery of a microphone.(Just trying to help.) '