[BeaverFever]

I wonder how many of the anti-Oleary conservatives will stick to their convictions if he becomes the party leader. Or will they fall in line and suddenly start worshipping him?

[martin14]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

I wonder how many of the anti-Oleary conservatives will stick to their convictions if he becomes the party leader. Or will they fall in line and suddenly start worshipping him?

About as many Hillary whores got on thier knees for Obongo in '08.

[Tricks]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

herbie herbie:

$1:

Joe Clark started the downhill. He was no Conservative, too much of a Red Tory.

See?
None of these posters are conservatives, conservatives are 'too left' for their liking. Now don't mention names of politics that are to the right of conservatives with populism built in or you'll hear worse whining and denial than if you said 'global warming'.....

I'll never deny being a Red Tory, or 'centrist'. I'm too economically conservative for the Liberals, and too socially liberal for the Conservatives.

This. I've often said you can label yourself red or blue, you're probably wrong 50% of the time.

[ShepherdsDog]

He's Barney....a big purple dinosaur.

[Thanos]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

He's Barney....a big purple dinosaur.

Nenshi's already got that gig patented.

[Thanos]

Fuck him.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/kevin-o- ... -1.3942349

$1:

For seven years, I sat shoulder to shoulder with Kevin. We'd spend long hours together, listening to hardworking Canadian entrepreneurs pitch their businesses, which, all too often, led to real-life stories of enormous struggle.

You get a window into somebody's character by the way they treat people, particularly those who are vulnerable and need help or guidance.

Kevin's total lack of empathy toward these Canadians who put their heart and soul on the line, I can assure you, was genuine.

Kevin is funny. I often enjoyed a glass of wine with him. He's also intelligent and a savvy self-promoter. But at his core, he's an opportunist. He doesn't do anything that doesn't offer a path to power, fame or fortune — and that should have us all afraid.

He's the business community's worst spokesperson. Why? Because he represents capitalism in its very worst form — a soulless system that bases decisions solely on dollars and cents, profit and margin.

[andyt]

From what I've seen on the Canadian program the investors provide a sharp slap on the face of the hopefuls,who are focused on getting that money. This slap often contains good advice.Kind of how a Zen teacher would do it. In Tibetan buddhism, allowing someone to remain in their illusions, this would be called "grandmother" compassion.

[ShepherdsDog]

Thanos Thanos:

Fuck him.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/kevin-o- ... -1.3942349

$1:

For seven years, I sat shoulder to shoulder with Kevin. We'd spend long hours together, listening to hardworking Canadian entrepreneurs pitch their businesses, which, all too often, led to real-life stories of enormous struggle.

You get a window into somebody's character by the way they treat people, particularly those who are vulnerable and need help or guidance.

Kevin's total lack of empathy toward these Canadians who put their heart and soul on the line, I can assure you, was genuine.

Kevin is funny. I often enjoyed a glass of wine with him. He's also intelligent and a savvy self-promoter. But at his core, he's an opportunist. He doesn't do anything that doesn't offer a path to power, fame or fortune — and that should have us all afraid.

He's the business community's worst spokesperson. Why? Because he represents capitalism in its very worst form — a soulless system that bases decisions solely on dollars and cents, profit and margin.

We all need to be leery of O'Leary.

[Thanos]

Makes me glad of my pledge to never vote again because it would be too icky a feeling to cast a ballot for some sociopathic SUN/Rebel-endorsed maniac capitalist candidate with it's lips pressed right up to O'Leary's butthole.

Can't vote Liberal or NDP ever. Can't vote Conservative ever again. As far as feelings go it's actually quite liberating to have escaped the trap of pretending that any of them give a damn about anything or anyone but themselves.

[ShepherdsDog]

Would you vote for an independent? I really don't see much difference between Tater Tot and Lucky Charms. They are both caught up in their own press and everything they do is for s4kf promotion. Both are completely out of touch with the reality of the middle class. The dippers claim to be about the middle and working class, but they have so many fringe freaks that it would be impossible to support them.

O'Leary Charms, they're hypocritically malicious.

[Thanos]

Nope. I prefer the non-participation route anyway. Better on the battered ol' conscience anyway as I don't have to take any responsibility any more when the mooks I'm dumb enough to vote for end up being deplorable and cause harm to others. Refusing to take part in a broken system is a legitimate protest anyway. Voting IMO is now like putting gas in the tank of a car that has a fried radiator and a cracked engine block. Sheer pig-headed futility in pretending it's still going to run on all cylinders.

[ShepherdsDog]

O'Leary's business acumen is as suspect as Trump's.

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/blogs-a ... ss-record/

[Public_Domain]

[fifeboy]

Thanos Thanos:

Makes me glad of my pledge to never vote again because it would be too icky a feeling to cast a ballot for some sociopathic SUN/Rebel-endorsed maniac capitalist candidate with it's lips pressed right up to O'Leary's butthole.

Can't vote Liberal or NDP ever. Can't vote Conservative ever again. As far as feelings go it's actually quite liberating to have escaped the trap of pretending that any of them give a damn about anything or anyone but themselves.

If you really feel that way than you should, at every election(from local school board to Federal Parliament) show up and spoil your ballot. That makes a better statement than just not showing up! My opinion .

[Zipperfish]

Thanos Thanos:

Seems like a great way, if he wins the leadership, to ensure that the Liberals get about 260 seats in the next election. There is no actual "conservatism" anymore, if there really ever was, post-Mulroney/Reagan/Thatcher. Just a series of randomly shifting pro-plutocracy talking points going in whatever direction the popular wind was blowing. It's not like anything of any real value has been or will be lost.

There is nothing "conservative" about the alt-right. They are radicals. Their intrinsic loathing of government makes them almost revolutionary. Their idea that government should be authoritarian, that government and the capitalists should work hand-in-hand, and strong anti-immigration stances are proto-fascist. This is happening in several countries now, or appears to heading that way. Similar to the situation in Europe in the 1930s really.

it's the so-called liberals, straining to hang on to the government/corporate balance that had reigned since FDR's New Deal that are the conservatives now.