She just underwent a mastectomy and breast reconstruction. I’d invite readers to put politics aside this morning and wish her the best.
Stupid comments are most unwelcome at this time.
She just underwent a mastectomy and breast reconstruction. I’d invite readers to put politics aside this morning and wish her the best.
Stupid comments are most unwelcome at this time.
All the best for Belinda. I sincerely hope that she beats this disease and lives a long and healthy life.
RB
From a PR perspective, she really should have announced this when she said she was leaving politics. It’s almost dead certain that she knew when she quit (you don’t go in for surgery that quickly, even if you’re as insanely uber-connected as she is), but likely didn’t want to share the horrible and incomplete information. So she got torn up by practically everyone, which she really didn’t need.
I understand her motivations at the time (nearly everyone would rather keep their medical issues private), but they lead her astray. If you are in politics you need an honest understanding of how you are viewed. Since she, her family, and her advisors should have known her reputation as a dilettantish lightweight, she should have been able to make the better decision to announce early. Instead she got more stress and attacks at a time when she really didn’t need it. We now all feel bad about it, but that’s much less useful than the all around support she could have had. Another example of how she has been less than ably served by her advisers, and a lesson for other politicians.
Lots of us didn’t like her for some of the things that she did, and have less than wonderful opinions of her abilities thanks to the close views we got on her campaign. At no time did she get close to the utterly reviled level of actually wishing ill on your opponents than some partisans do (the Left domestically, the Right – legitimately – against forign dictators).
Lovely sentiments. Rather hollow, but lovely nonetheless.
Remember this? 3w.shaidle.blogmatrix.com/:entry:shaidle-2007-04-11-0014/
Or this? 3w.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005970.html
– “oportunistic carpetbagger.”
– “daddy’s spoiled little girl”
– “Just another rat, jumping off of the shinking Liberal ship.”
Why are vicious ad hominem insults OK, as long as the target doesn’t have cancer?
Because, A’dam, there’s an implied political playing field for bloggers that is separate from a person’s personal circumstances. We assume we’re all fit and ready for battle. When someone falls, plain human decency kicks in. It’s one of the things I like about this country: most of us don’t wish for the painful deaths of our political opponents, however hard we scrap in the blogosphere and elsewhere.
The support that poured in from all sides for me a few months back was proof positive of that. Made me, among others things, proud to be a Canadian, as silly as that might sound.
Because, A’dam, there’s an implied political playing field for bloggers that is separate from a person’s personal circumstances. We assume we’re all fit and ready for battle. When someone falls, plain human decency kicks in. It’s one of the things I like about this country: most of us don’t wish for the painful deaths of our political opponents, however hard we scrap in the blogosphere and elsewhere.
The support that poured in from all sides for me a few months back was proof positive of that. Made me, among other things, proud to be a Canadian, as silly as that might sound.
“Why are vicious ad hominem insults OK, as long as the target doesn’t have cancer?”
Ur, yeah, pretty much, A’dam. How old are you? 12? Yep, we grownups are all hypocrites and “phonies”, with feet of clay and inconsistencies galore. That’s life, dear.
Please remember: Holden Caufield was speaking FROM THE NUTHOUSE.
Think about it mentally.
pundit/bollocks.
First – your ‘threat’ didn’t have any effect whatsoever because no-one was involved in that type of behaviour.
Second- stop threatening to post Kate’s address; we aren’t your hostages to ‘Make The Boss Do What You Want’. Stop your threats; that’s juvenile.
Third – she’s the boss; this is her blog; you were banned. Get lost.
As for your boasting about your proficiency – you have a psychological problem. Get some help – and get lost.
Bollocks you tool, her home mailing address is listed on her site. Also, using a five-second search using a pair of search engines reveals her home phone number and street address.
If using google and a telephone number look-up site qualifies as technologically superior, then I’m Bill freaking Gates.
You really need psychological help. Get some. And in the mean time, don’t come back here, freak.
I may never have agreed with Belinda politically but I wish her a speedy recovery and will keep a good thought for her. My sister-in-law died at a young age of breast cancer. There’s not a day I don’t think of her.
KP
My thoughts and prayers are with Ms Stronach. May she emerge from this battle totally victorious.
Sometimes disease really bites, even one’s political opponents.
I will now have to add Belinda Stronach to the prayer list.
My father in law had a good cancer scare, resulting in colon surgery twice in two years. So far he is holding out pretty well.
In between my mother-in-law has had hip replacement surgery. Both are hanging in there.
It is always nasty when a little bit of “Hell” comes to your household.
Get well soon.
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Here’s wishing Ms. Stronach a speedy & full recovery. I may not have always agreed with her politically, but that doesn’t water down my wishes.
as with anyone with a horrible disease I say godspeed and god bless. as for belinda? I consider her to be a traitor to the Conservative Party of Canada and to the conservative working women of Canada. she has my pity nothing more.