Its election season in Canada and conservatives in this country need all the help we can get. I'm jumping back into the "Air War" so to speak, because that is where I'll be most useful. I have the skills if not the talent.
The format for now will be short Youtube videos that will work in tandem with Twitter and Blogger. I have zero budget and no backing from any entity. It's me and my voice.
The facts and opinions you will see are mine. I present them to you for the simple purpose of furthering conservative and libertarian principles in Canada. My only reward is living in the country that accepts these principles. My reward is also your reward.
I've begun by creating an intro video for the youtube channel you can subscribe to here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXQ8ScjVXoqwp9kzZ7B0OEw/
Follow my twitter while you are at it: https://twitter.com/Spin_Assassin
I'm really happy with both Ads released by the Conservative Party of Canada recently. The one I like most is the steady-as-she-goes ad. This is one I can show my mom.
Aren't they great mom? They're looking after us and our country. I'm proud of our Conservative Party. We really could not have done better over the last few years and the world is changing every day. We need a Stephen Harper at the wheel.
The second ad cuts clean to the truth. "Take a hike," is the only Liberal promise you can count on. I'm not just saying that. Watch it. Show me a Liberal who can deny it. There is no denying that Liberals are after higher taxes. This is their method. Everyone knows it and their only plan is to confuse and obfuscate it. They admit they want to raise taxes, so just imagine what they have up their sleeves for you? Dion taught them a lesson they won't soon forget. You know there are nasty tax hikes they won't dare tell you about. GST/HST hike, Green Shift, Carbon Tax, oh its on the table right next to the envelopes yet to be stuffed with cash for cronies. You know it.
Now that would be funny! It would also be useful since Senate reform will probably be very tough in this most difficult of Parliaments. I would like to see members sit for double or triple the usual length of time after the Olympics. Its obvious that the Liberals are already angling for an election, so its unlikely that the Parliamentary term will make it that far anyway. I'm not even sure the government has the power to extend the term length at all. I do know that Prorogation is within the Prime Minister's right and its also nothing special either.
Perhaps an extension would make an entertaining bill? Journalists have always called it "cheap theater." The real work of government is done outside of Question Period and everybody knows that. You don't actually think all that horsing around, jeering, and grandstanding serves a purpose do you? Come on. Anything that can't wait until after we host the world will need some kind of emergency session anyway.
I say: make them all work thrice as hard (or long) for the same pay and see how that empty rhetoric stands up.
I am a Conservative. I believe in the Conservative movement and therefore also believe strongly in Democracy. That means my vote is in play. To blindly adhere my vote to my party forever is to undermine Democracy itself.
Nobody looks over your shoulder as you vote. Nobody holds the pencil and marks the X. Your vote is your property. Democracy only works when this is true. Blind subservience to a party or a leader removes accountability of the party or politician to you, the voter and taxpayer.
The PC party and Brian Mulroney learned this hard lesson at a terrible cost to Canadians. When Conservatives turned away from the PC’s in favour of the Reform party and Liberals, they demonstrated their ultimate belief in democracy.
The price however, was a decade of Liberal darkness and constitutional despair. The Conservative Party of Canada eventually emerged from the Liberal darkness and stubbornness of the old guard. Today we have a Conservative Party that is well aware of the supremacy and the voter and the strength it gives to democracy.
The Liberals know no such truth. The party of entitlement appoints leaders faster than previous leaders could disappoint. Iggy couldn’t even beat Dion in a party election, yet he was somehow elevated to arch duke of the Liberal party. The guy claims to be American to Americans, but denies that living for 32 years in the US (longer than I have been alive!) makes him an American. Now he is seriously claiming to be more Canadian than the rest of us, and more suited to being PM by virtue of not being in Canada for half of his life. I could maybe see him writing a white paper or some academic piece, but Prime Minister?
It doesn’t look as though my faith in Conservatism or Democracy will be in conflict any time soon. Thoughtful, soft-liberal voters would do well to use some tough love democracy on their old-boys-club party. It’s the only way to convince the Liberal elites to actually listen and stop the false promises and gimmicks they are famous for.
