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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (3495)	1/16/2004 6:40:07 PM
From: SofaSpud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37301

I heard him interviewed this morning, or part of it anyway. I was surprised to end up with the impression of opportunism -- what I knew of him before seemed quite far away from opportunistic. The move seems odd -- the group he was elected with in '93 were way more red meat, right wing and embarrassing than today's caucus. Notwithstanding the fact that he's known Harper for 10 years, and stood up in October and said he's support Harper for leader, today it's no longer good enough? Today he finds that Liberal policy is more in tune with his beliefs than Harper's? When Harper wrote the policy book Keith Martin ran under in '93? I can't say I was impressed with his explanation of Iraq. He said Harper was for invading Iraq for the wrong reasons -- because the U.S. is our friend. But he supported the idea of removing Sadaam, because Sadaam wasn't a nice guy. Hmmm. Anyway, it seems that there's some realignment going on, and I don't think that's a bad thing. Sheila might go to the NDP, Scott went to the Liberals, maybe Dennis Mills will move to the Conservatives. IMHO that just makes it easier for the voters to figure out who's what.