What a dysfunctional family we are. What bothers me is this, if its a Conservative
everyone assumes that the whole party is involved or feels a certain way. If a
Liberal Candidate says something stupid, like not all sexual offenders should go to
jail, the Conservatives then attempt to paint all candidates in the Liberal Party are
all of a sudden soft on crime. A Green Party candidate who has obviously eaten to
much organic granola, says women should enjoy being raped in certain circumstances
then we should assume that all Greens approve of the statement. What is coming for
the NDP, oh for years others have painted them all as being Communists which is also
nonsense.
When are we going to grow up and understand that some people slip through a screening
process and become an embarrassment to an organization? When you are dealing with
somewhere near sixteen hundred candidates, applying for somewhere near four hundred
seats in Parliament there are bound to be some flakes in the mix. It is appropriate to raise
our eyebrows and not vote for someone who is not ready for society let alone to be our
representative in government. I hold that, we as people all have family members in our own
circle, that we do not want others to know we are related. So be it in the Canadian family,
we are as a group related, as Canadians whether we like it or not, and as dysfunctional as we
are.
It is better we stick to the issues before us and find someone else to vote for than to be focused
on someone who is stupid and miss the real business at hand. Remember beauty fades but
stupid is forever. It is obvious, this person does not represent the view of the Greens, about the
rape comment. It is also true that someone may have been a member, or a sympathiser of a
group with links to terrorism, that does not mean the Conservative Party is approving of such an
action. Secondly it does say something is lacking in their screening process, and some action
needs to be taken, like explaining the facts before the confusion envelopes them.
We have heard all kinds of people who are stupid, or ignorant make all kinds of statements like those
above, or the Liberal in New Brunswick that made some nasty statements about Natives in his
Province. At the same time there are natives running as Candidates in the Liberal Party, so we
know they don't all feel the way that single person expressed them self.
Its time we grew up and condemned a single stupid statement and stop painting everyone in a
particular party with the same brush.
