National Post: Conservatives are Salty

[taxslave]

In four years of more deficits and debt and loss of rights everyone will be saying exactly the same things about trudowe that they are saying about Harper today. Harper lost because he didn't understand that most of the population are only interested in a free ride and not what is right for the country and future generations.

 

[Cannuck]

At some point I have to stop laughing because of how sad this is.

But that is not this day! :lol:

It is pretty hilarious. The whole lot are just too stupid or stubborn to accept that the rest of Canada has passed them by. Their ideology is so flawed, conservatives and socialists alike have given them a massive butt hurt

The laughter you hear is not people laughing with you.

Sure it is...and they're laughing at you

 

[mentalfloss]

Let's hope Harper's replacement doesn't play to the same base or they will be angry for a long time.

 

[Cliffy]

Now to poop on everybody's parade, from the Master of poop:

 

[Cannuck]

Let's hope Harper's replacement doesn't play to the same base ....

As a conservative, I certainly hope not. I am precisely the type of person that abandoned the party and am one of the easiest votes to get back. All they have to do is tell the nutter side of the party to **** off. It almost worked for Mulcair until he decided to take a sharp turn left. Canadians are generally middle of the road and any party that lets the nutters have control are doomed. Harper only survived the last election because of the Liberals ineptness

 

[AnnaG]

I do not like salt much so I will take pepper, please.

 

[mentalfloss]

As a conservative, I certainly hope not. I am precisely the type of person that abandoned the party and am one of the easiest votes to get back. All they have to do is tell the nutter side of the party to **** off. It almost worked for Mulcair until he decided to take a sharp turn left. Canadians are generally middle of the road and any party that lets the nutters have control are doomed. Harper only survived the last election because of the Liberals ineptness

To be fair, they weren't fiscal conservatives either.

 

[Mowich]

As a conservative, I certainly hope not. I am precisely the type of person that abandoned the party and am one of the easiest votes to get back. All they have to do is tell the nutter side of the party to **** off. It almost worked for Mulcair until he decided to take a sharp turn left. Canadians are generally middle of the road and any party that lets the nutters have control are doomed. Harper only survived the last election because of the Liberals ineptness

I would be interested in knowing who you would like to see as the new leader of the party, Cannuck.......also who you do think would be the best interim leader?

 

[Cliffy]

The moment he said it was only important to defeat Harper, he lost. He removed himself and his party from relevance ever.

If you bozos had a clue you would still be clueless. I don't have a party, except the one we celebrated when Harpo hit the skids. I voted NDP because they were the only ones in this riding who could defeat the Cons and thus Harpo. It was a tactic the paid off, unlike you clowns who lost. Now, go back to playing with yourselves. It is what you are best at.

 

[captain morgan]

If you bozos had a clue you would still be clueless. I don't have a party, except the one we celebrated when Harpo hit the skids. I voted NDP because they were the only ones in this riding who could defeat the Cons and thus Harpo. It was a tactic the paid off, unlike you clowns who lost. Now, go back to playing with yourselves. It is what you are best at.

Are you that naive to think that any votes West of Ontario even counted?

 

[mentalfloss]

If you bozos had a clue you would still be clueless. I don't have a party, except the one we celebrated when Harpo hit the skids. I voted NDP because they were the only ones in this riding who could defeat the Cons and thus Harpo. It was a tactic the paid off, unlike you clowns who lost. Now, go back to playing with yourselves. It is what you are best at.

They really cleaned up the Maritimes.

 

[Cannuck]

To be fair, they weren't fiscal conservatives either.

Social conservatives generally aren't. The right fringe and the left fringe love government control (and therefore bigger government). They just want it for different reasons.

 

[mentalfloss]

The right fringe are actually the left fringe if they want any authority.

 

[Cannuck]

I would be interested in knowing who you would like to see as the new leader of the party, Cannuck.......also who you do think would be the best interim leader?

Wall, Lord or Raitt would be OK but that's just off the top of my head.

If the Nutters get their way, it'll be Ford and Trudeau will get re-elected

 

[mentalfloss]

Raitt is see doable.

Michelle Rumpel would be the nail in the coffin for them though.

 

[Cannuck]

Raitt is see doable.

Michelle Rumpel would be the nail in the coffin for them though.

There's no shortage of nails.

 

[mentalfloss]

I'm liking Diane Finley.

 

[CDNBear]

It was fun reading this thread, I know a Liberal victory would be entertaining. But see the space I've rented in some peoples heads, was just an added bonus, lol.

 

[mentalfloss]

How irony killed Stephen Harper

Look at the defining ads of the election campaign: Harper went after Trudeau with a sledgehammer, airing attack ads that condemned him for being “just not ready.” Mulcair swallowed the narrative line and earnestly proclaimed: “I’m ready!”

What did Trudeau do? Did he swing back with a bigger sledgehammer? No, he turned the phrase on its head. Sure, he said, with an ironic twinkle in those teasing brown eyes, I’m “just not ready” — then came the punchline: just not ready to put up with five more years of Conservative rule.

clever, oh so clever, that ironic twist on Harper’s own phrase. Some have said that Harper was tone-deaf to the plight of Syrian refugees. I say he was tone-deaf to Canadian irony.

For proof, look no further than Harper’s promise in the late stages of the campaign to establish a tip line where Canadians could rat each other out for so-called barbaric cultural practices. “Barbaric cultural practices” — my God, it was comic gold! The name itself cried out to be mocked, and mock it we did.

This Hour Has 22 Minutes immediately jumped on it, creating a sketch in which anonymous tipsters called into the hotline to report such offences as a captive woman being forced to kiss a fish — a “barbaric practice” that turned out to be a Newfoundland screeching-in ceremony. Meanwhile, Canadians spontaneously created the twitter hashtag #BarbaricCulturalPractices to report a slew of horrific offences: Wearing socks with sandals #BarbaricCulturalPractices! Beer-bellied men in Speedos #BarbaricCulturalPractices! Triple-bacon-pork-belly poutine #BarbaricCulturalPractices!

http://m.thestar.com/#/article/opinion/commentary/2015/10/23/how-irony-killed-stephen-harper.html

 

[Cannuck]

The funniest thing is that the Conservatives were the authors of their own demise. They have idiotic policies that normal people can not accept. Instead of pulling their collective heads out of their a$$es, and changing some of their more unpopular policies, they dug in their heels and attacked anybody that disagreed with them. If this forum is any indication of the mood of Conservative Party membership, either Justin will have a long career as PM or real conservatives like myself will have to start up a fiscally conservative party. Hopefully the nutters leave or die off.