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Quotation of the Day for October 9, 2015"Conservatives everywhere have been campaigning for years on the proposition that they are the strongest and bravest. But, for that to matter, there must be a counter-threat, something that requires a real man like Stephen Harper in office, not a wet academic like Stephane Dion or a mincing toff like Michael Ignatieff. "So they talk up the threat. It used to be the commies. Now it's the terrorists. And the drug dealers. And the brown people. And the reckless spenders. And the environmental activists. And the census takers. Everyone and everything. They've spent so long warning us to be constantly afraid, they've internalized it. They have literally frightened themselves. "And now, ironically, the Conservative party is whom you vote for if you are timid and emasculated, if you go to bed scared and wake up worried. "And what of [Conservative candidate] Chris Alexander, who used to strap on body armour and helicopter into hostile districts to stare down warlords? He's scared of a young woman in a niqab and a homeless family in Turkey." - Scott Gilmore, in his article, "The Conservatives, the party for the manly man? Hardly." [http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-conservatives-the-party-for-the-manly-man-hardly/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Oct. 7, 2015  |
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