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

To: marcos who wrote (199)	11/26/2002 12:15:47 PM
From: SofaSpud	Respond to of 443

I've heard Lew speak, and he is very good. He would make an outstanding cabinet minister. Whether he has a broader view of the world than his career in the military would suggest is another matter -- something you would want to see in a potential PM, even if that's only theoretical in the case of the PC party. Note, too, that Lew doesn't speak French. I honestly don't get it with the remaining supporters of the Conservative Party. The party has been burned down to a core of Red Tories who philosophically are indistinguishable from the Liberals. Many of them would appear to be comfortable with the NDP's policy book. The only thing about them that is "conservative" is that they seek to conserve the notional link to Sir John A. Even before the schism, how were they "conservative"? During the greatest economic boom in Ontario's history they still managed to increase the deficit -- I don't know how Mike Wilson lasted as long as he did in that job, pounding his head against the brick wall of an essentially Trudeau cabinet for what, 8 years? I don't deny that there is deep antipathy between the remaining Tories and the CA. Talk of "uniting the right" is just so much dishonest nonsense. It's utterly dishonest to suggest that, since the CA can't win seats in the Atlantic, and the Tories can't in the West, that they should instead cooperate on a slate. That's asking voters to buy a pig in a poke. It's far, far more appropriate for the CA to admit that voters in the east don't consider them credible, and to work to address the reasons for it. But there is nothing "right" in the Conservative Party to unite with. The Blue Tories left 10 years ago.