The only "cowboys" that Iggy & The Liberal Horde really like are the boys dressed up in chaps & wiggling their way down the street in the Gay Pride Parade.

Interesting how Iggy is respectfully of different cultures except the radical conservative culture of is 'own' country.

I don't mind the chaps..as long as they wear pants under them.

Ummm 'respectfully' should be 'respectful'. Apologies to my grade 3 teacher, Mrs. Smith.

Ignatieff is presenting his usual smug, patronizing elitist view.

We all know the mindset, that of the Big City Socialite who spends 'the season' in Paris and New York, and the in-between phases in Cannes, London, Hampton and Cape Cod, and who sneers at small-town residents who live their lives in one town.

Obama, also an elitist, sneered at rural and conservative America and Ignatieff belongs to the same elitist Set. These are people who consider that they alone, as Philosopher-Kings, have not merely the wisdom but the Divine Right to rule.

All hat, no cattle !
Good one. Very applicable to the flakes.

"I don't mind the chaps..as long as they wear pants under them.
Posted by: speedy at July 16, 2009 9:54 AM "

don't go a GP Parade . . you'll be very disappointed.

Polls--the crack cocaine for political junkies.

Get your fix at today's EKOS (with changes from last week)

Conservative: 34.1% (+2.3)
Liberal: 32.4% (+0.2)
NDP: 15.2% (-0.8)
Green: 9.6% (-1.1)
BQ: 8.7% (-0.6)

Well CJ I wonder what the Vitruvius election calculator would say, my suspicion is a significantly reduced con minority.

Iggy wont pull the trigger till he knows he can win or get a solid NDP Lib coalition. He gets one shot and one shot only if he loses.

Iggy, bubby, say goodbye to western LPC electoral inroads. Say hello to GTA rump party opposition status in perpetuity.

I like these LPC leaders who commit political suicide like it was a right of passage.

Iggy stepped on his weasel with that comment.

Too bad, I kinda would have liked it for him to continue on with his condesending tirade.

I just gotta see him twisting when he gets in bed with jack layton though, thats the only way I can see them not voted into insignificance during the next election.

"radical conservative ideological world of Calgary"

Stop! It hurts! My side! Stop!

Ignatieff isn't interested in votes from the West. He's after Quebec and Ontario and in particular, Toronto and Montreal.

Therefore, his rhetoric is geared to the 'Latte Set', the elites in these vote rich ridings who consider themselves the intellectual centre and font of intellectual sophistication. These are predominant in these cities as government bureaucrats and academics and are clearly differentiated from the rurals who merely work and thus don't have the time to think and reflect on aesthetics and philosophy...and the more dangerous rednecks who froth and fume and go to the Calgary Stampede.

He's also, as usual, dividing Canadians into Quebec and the ROC. Remember his Motion to have Quebec, the geographic province, defined as a nation. This focus on Calgary and the West is meant to set up an image of the Conservatives as anti-intellectual, anti-arts, anti-philosophical musing type of people..the antithesis of the Quebec self-image of international sophistication.

I lived in that bastion of unadulterated greed, materialism and unbridled hubris for more years than I care to remember. I was never so happy to finally move from Calgary and relocate my company. Give me BC, Saskatchewan, Manitoba or Quebec any day. They can have Harper, (I lived in his riding) as soon the rest of Canada, with the exception of Saskatchewan, won't want him.

The more Iggy talks the more Canadians will see that this is an arrogant, elitist who really could care less about seriously ordinary Canadians. As soon as Parliament ends he runs off to his "country" and is vacationing in Europe as we speak. You would think for somebody who wants to be PM he would spend the summer travelling Canada getting to know the various regions. No that's too pedestrian for him. Well the more he is exposed and Canadians see him they will surely know that this is not the type of person who should be PM. The Libs when they can't beat you resort to hatemongering and vilifying their opposition. The PM has been subjected to never ending personal attacks. However, the Libs generally can take the high ground because the media does it for them.

Ignatieff cannot be accused of "All hat and no cattle".
He refused the tradition of wearing a western hat at the Calgary Stampede.

So is he "NO hat and All bull"?

The world according to Ignatieff:

Visiting Iran = good
Visiting Calgary = evil

We all know The Liberal Party created Canada, And Dont ever forget that!.

T with a company? Must be a lesbian book store. Vegan tofu shop?

Too bad for Iggy,now Harper will win all the seats in Alberta. You guys are jokers.

Calgary? So what?

I think it was Lorne Gunter writing in the Post a couple of years ago about his experience at a local community outdoor breakfast in a trendy area here in Ottawa known as the Glebe.

If I recall, the fixings included steak,eggs and whatnot. Someone suggested that the menu reflected prarie culture to which a woman seated next to Gunter laughingly replied: "the west has culture?"

When Gunter suggested to her that her flippant attitude was part of the reason for fomenting Western dissent within Confederation, she angrily looked away.

I don't pretend to understand the Glebe, but I don't think Iggy would have trouble making friends in that neighbourhood.

T- your comment doesn't have the, ah, 'ring of truth'.

To assert that one city in Canada has an atmosphere of 'greed, materialism and hubris' while all other cities don't have such behaviour is nonsense.

Ever heard of brown paper bags of money passed from one Liberal hand to another in Montreal? Of its hordes of federal offices located there just for that 'greed, materialism and hubris'? What about Toronto's financial hub? What about the black market economy that is so much a vital part of the Quebec economy?

Nice try to, without evidence or any act of thinking, smear the Conservatives. Try to post using facts and reason.

Actually, I believe it's the Strap-on Station®, Jason, "our products fit to a T".

I wonder who on Iggy's staff gave him the idea of trying the old Chretien east-against-west regional polarizing campaign?

"is a politician formed and shaped in the radical conservative ideological world of Calgary..."

He says that like it's a bad thing.

And since when is being conservative "radical"? Most conservatives are traditional. Traditional and radical don't belong in the same frickin' sentence. Progressives are radical; if Iffy does not understand these simple definitions, he's not as smart as he thinks he is.

Looks like he won't be winning the west either. That fine Liberal tradition will continue.

Cowboy's not an insult in liberal land if you are a brokeback cowboy, just remember that. Brokeback - good; real cowboy - baaaaaad!

"...the radical conservative ideological world of Calgary..."

...where people sometimes think there might be a limit to the amount of power and money a government should have. And gee, wouldn't it be nice if I could go shooting Sunday afternoons without 47 forms filled out in triplicate and a police escort?

Radicals!!!!

You gotta learn to scroll past the trolls.

Sounds kinda poetic, don't you think.

"The only "cowboys" that Iggy & The Liberal Horde really like are the boys dressed up in chaps & wiggling their way down the street in the Gay Pride Parade."
Fred

Apparently, old Iggy can play a mean mouth organ too!
;-)

Smear all you want, I operate legitimate company, however, I have all employees that work in the company unionized and I had more clients outside of Alberta, hence the move to a more palatable social and economic climate.

Thankfully we have a Great Russian to clarimafy these issues for us. Youse people should show some gratitude. I thought for sure Ig would have taken umbraige at the embroidered peasant shirts Calgarians wear at the stampede.

T - you moved your 'company'? What's the matter, couldn't get subsidies/handouts?

Iggy is not without allies in the press - Jeffrey simpson being one.

Here is a recent column of his:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/a-very-scary-pm-i-dont-believe-that-any-taxes-are-good-taxes/article1216778/

and here is Terence Corcoran's brilliant take down of him:

http://www.financialpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=543d63a0-148f-483e-bfe4-85f6333be683

well worth the read. and I suspect that Simpson is wincing from the smackdown...

Iggy wont pull the trigger till he knows he can win or get a solid NDP Lib coalition. He gets one shot and one shot only if he loses. ~ Stephen at 10:28 AM

If he remains true to form, when he does pull the trigger, the gun will be pointed at his foot.

.."He refused the tradition of wearing a western hat at the Calgary Stampede."

Get a rope.

.."He refused the tradition of wearing a western hat at the Calgary Stampede."

Get a rope.

Agreed. Give Iggy a chance, if he can't shoot maybe he can rope.

"[Mr. Harper] is a politician formed and shaped in the radical conservative ideological world of Calgary..."

Wrong.
Stephen Harper was formed and shaped in Toronto Ontario, then he came to Calgary and was a mover and a shaker in the Alberta political arena.

Stephen Harper was one of the authors of the Firewall letter to Ralph Klein.
In the letter, Stephen Harper suggests nothing more than what Quebers have already done for themselves.

Can you just picture Iggy saying about Gilles Duceppe being "a politician formed and shaped in the radical French cultural ideological world of Montreal?

Bigoted Liberal identity politics at it's finest, that's Iggy.

"Smear all you want, I operate legitimate company, however, I have all employees that work in the company unionized and I had more clients outside of Alberta, hence the move to a more palatable social and economic climate."

Written by the incredibly obtuse persona named "T".

I call bull$hit. For all the misinformation you spread about the province, the fact is that Alberta is not a "union unfriendly" jursidiction.I know this because I've worked within a union in Calgary, and owned a business in Alberta. That's just $hit you've made up.

Go away.

And more from Chuckercanuck:

"Calgary, the Evil Menace"

Mark
Ottawa

"He refused the tradition of wearing a western hat at the Calgary Stampede."

He did far worse than that! He charged money, ($40 a head, I believe), for a purported 'Stampede Breakfast', actually a Fiberal Farty Fundraiser.

There are many Stampede barbecues, parties, dinners, hoedowns, and sundry whatnots that may have a closed attendance list or charge admittance. Stampede Breakfasts are not on that list. Stampede Breakfasts are free to all comers, end of story.

Count Iggula is not alone in his Stampede heresy, PMPM also charged for his 'Stampede Fundraiser', as did Dionne. Those Gliberals are all alike, it's hard to tell one from another without a program.

So what you're saying is that Count Iggula really isn't too concerned about facts?

Go figure.

We trust the Herald's Hannaford meant Monday June 29, not that we think Iggy will be any smarter by the end of the month.