Margaret Wente has written a stinging column about Dalton McGuinty and his shameless plan to get reelected. Here’s a sampling:
But never mind the real world. The Liberals are convinced that micro-pandering to crucial market segments is their key to re-election. And so we have, in no particular order, pledges to bring back doctors’ house calls for the elderly, a “healthy snack” program for schoolchildren, a home renovation tax credit to help your dear old mom install a walk-in shower, a whopping postsecondary tuition cut for the middle class, and a vow to reduce childhood obesity rates by 20 per cent. (Good luck with that.) The Premier will even refund your money if the trains don’t run on time.
I haven’t felt so warm and fuzzy since the Easter Bunny came to town. Vote for the Liberals, and there’ll be chocolate eggs for all! Just make sure you don’t overdose on all the saccharine.
What really bothers me isn’t the cynical opportunism of this approach. It’s not even the silly attempts at social engineering. It’s the sheer fatuousness of it all. The Liberals’ only aim is to reassure the public that, if they’re re-elected, nothing bad will happen and nothing much will change.
But it will.
Related: As part of the plan to reelect McGuinty, Warren Kinsella pulls the racist card on Tim Hudak.
The global economy at the hands of socialists for the past 50 years is coming down around our ears …. there is a looming war in the Middle East … not just the usual daily murders, I mean a biggie … there is the on-going Jihadis pouring into and being born into our western countries daily … China is eating our lunch … and in the midst of all this …. that little turd, McGuinty is applying talcum to the butts of his whiny babies in Ontario constituency?
Is this guy for real? Don’t answer that … nothing about the left is real …. reality is for real people who understand what the real problems and issues are and are trying to do something about it while Premier Twit is handing out Easter Eggs to keep his pointless job.
I hope that man develops some sort of painful and incurable stomach disorder … Stupidity should be painful.
This crap reminds me of my elementry school mock elections where the ‘candidates’ promised Dr. Pepper in the water fountains and 1 hour recess everyday.
Margaret missed this one:
Ontario Liberals guarantee no tax increases
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontariovotes2011/story/2011/09/08/onvotes-liberals-tax-guarantee982.html?cmp=rss
Guaranteeing fiberals won’t raise taxes is like ensuring the sun won’t come up tomorrow.
Everybody gets a pony. Awesome.
The entire Ontario manufacturing sector has de-camped to China, Ford is building a billion dollar car factory in INDIA instead of Ontario, Dalton’s giving me a pony.
I’m going to need one, to haul water after the electricity shuts off.
Frankly all of Canada is in need of extensive belt tightening. If it weren’t for rising commodity prices we would be in similar dire straits as the USA and Europe. The future does not look bright.
This should be mandatory reading for the electorate with brains. Those without will vote for McSquinty anyway.
Inquiring minds are wondering just how much farm land is selling for in Sask. anyways these days? Just in case the voting pubic of Ontario is again duped it might be time to get outa Dodge sorta scenario. Where the f*** is Hudak? Take a stand man! NOW.
“Where the f*** is Hudak? Take a stand man! NOW.”
hudak is sequestered away, restrained by his handlers, clucking away about ‘traditional family values’.
in 2011.
Sheesh. Looks like old McSquinty is practicing Obamanomics.
Hudak needs to show some conservatism, pronto, and not be afraid to do so.
Hudak is a classic RINO.
“Rino” is the definition for infighting between hard left libtards, and slightly less hard left libtards. All products from the same schools, neighbourhoods, social circles, etc. In other words, part of the same elites.
No more Rino’s!
Anywhere.
Margaret need only look at who is helping mcginty on the campaign – Warren Kinsella.
I want my unicorn.
Um, Abe, not to make too fine a point but aren’t the Chinese socialists, as well? They have their own problems arising from how they do business. Their economy is not as rugged and hale as some would like us to believe. Other than that, you’re criticism is well taken.
‘Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.’
Nikita S. Khruschev
Morontario will re-elect the fiberals and remain a have not province.Get rid of the regs that is killing your economy.
Oh.And all hard working,honest Ontarians are welcome in AB.
Where the f*** is Hudak? Take a stand man! NOW.
Posted by: The Glengarrian at September 8, 2011 1:16 PM
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You’ll notice that at the end of their Day 1 response to McGuinty’s “Hire a Foreigner” policy the PC’s omitted Hudak’s name from the ad. In other words first day on the campaign trail and they’ve already identified him as a liability.
I’m voting PC in this election just to get McGuinty out of office, but never again until the party is reformed.
Margaret has quite a list of Pinocchio’s promises. I am pleasantly surprised that many of the comments agree with her.
@ trappedintrudeaupia. Good question. BTW, land is cheaper in Saskatchewan than southern Manitoba, but is catching up fast what with all the BC dairy and chicken farmers setting up shop here. So come make us an offer.
trappedintrudeaupia has it right.
Problem is that McGuinty couldn’t find a rational reason to support or reject a policy if his brother and Samsung didn’t help him and Hudak is just like the empty suit the Ammuricans elected in Obama.
We could use serious people proposing serious solutions to problems facing us TODAY people!
As Kate says often…the footure is in our youth – that’s why I’m reinforcing the fences ’round my place.
It looks like Margaret Wente all over the progressives today. And some progressives in the comments section are beside themselves that their Globe and Mail would even print that.
They are saying stuff like Joe Biden who said to his fellow progressives about conservatives “You are the only folks keeping the barbarians at the gates. …. The only one that has the power and capacity to stop this onslaught.”
It used to be that we were rednecks. Now we’re barbarians. Wear it proudly like a badge. It’s like not getting a seat on the UN Security Council.
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Yeah… the Liberals, touting “green this” and “green that”
are obviously on the side of angels here.
I mean, what could possibly go… wait a minute…
FBI agents armed with search warrants descended
Thursday morning on bankrupt solar company Solynrda.
Solyndra filed for bankruptcy last week, shocking both
workers and the Obama administration, which had
given the startup $535 million in low interest loans.
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I used to watch SunTV, until they hired Kinsella.
Quit buying Sun paper when they hired Ms. Copps.
A couple sanctimonious Liberal mouthpieces.
Disappointed in Mr. Hudak.
Ontario’s Finance Minister has just announced that they will not raise taxes.
Lie to me once…….
Brian Lilley shows again he is not up to the job when he is afraid to stop Kinsella from doing the usual “LPC talk over” in a conversation. Shame on Lilley it is not possible to shame Kinsella; Cheers
mcguinty’s liberals are going to try every dirty old liberal trick going in this election, they know alot are ticked over rising hydro cost, they have the most mpp’s not running for re-election
popularity in polls low, So alot riding on this election And so bring on the typical liberal Slander tactics, One wk its Hudak is a Harris clone this wk it Tea Party Tim.
And Hudak’s people should have picked up on the TEA party one and fired a volly back, TEA Party
Taxed Enough America
The blessed PC party is running Gomer Pyle for Premier. Don’t expect a change in government. We are truly screwed.
Thank God the Queen still owes my one more move for my service. I think Ontario is truly screwed with this crop of political leaders. Plenty room in Alberta tho….
Globally mental health specialists are starting to view Modern Liberalism as a mental illness, and I view it as such. Diluded people who want the goberment to pass legislation and policies that make them feel superior and good about themselves.
McSlime and the Liberals know how friggin stupid and gullible the Ontario voter is so don’t count them out. And given Hudak is just another lame brain John Tory, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Dalton gets another 4 years. I hate the scumbag, but he knows what he’s doing when it comes to fooling and manipulating the electorate. Psychopaths are always good at that stuff.
I’m starting to feel better about the election, because Wornout Kantsellya is working for the Liberals.
That’s better than having Conservative secret agents messing up the Liberal campaign. Its like getting half the Toronto seats for free.
Didn’t this Kinsella guy recently show his racism and piss off Asian Canadians, indeed even mainland Chinese by exclaiming that Canadian Chinese restaurants secretly serve cat meat to unsuspecting white Canadians? {The sneaky little devils}
The Liberals think that little black & brown people can’t fend for themselves in the superior white society that they find themselves. They prove their racist and demeaning perspectives through their policies and actions, made all the more insulting because these are the very people the left depends on to get elected. Handouts, patronizing, and pandering to anti-western values, in essence they are silently humiliating the little dark people “not intelligent enough” by their standards to realize the Liberal left is quietly cornering them into ghetto class citizens. The US based Democratic Party Ku.Klux.Klan would be so proud of their ideologies spreading so far in modern leftist politics.
I’m hoping – and that’s all it is, hope – that the Ontario PC’s are playing a “rope-a-dope” strategy, letting the Liberals throw everything out in the first week, and then counter attacking later.
As I noted yesterday, I can’t watch a single TV show without seeing numerous McSquinty commercials, sometimes back to back in the same break. This has got to be costing the Liberals a fortune, while the PC’s are only running a few ads.
Of course, this is only hope on my part. It’s early, but I’m disappointed with Hudak’s performance so far.
How ironic, I’m sitting here eating almond soo gai chicken, singapore noodles and fried wontons (Honestly I am!!) and Warren Catsmeat Kinsella is bloviating about the governor of Arizone.
Excuse my french but this man is a c u n t and a pig. Hudak Torys should be following this douche around heckling him everywhere he goes replaying his catmeat video on loudspeakers.
Is there a more polarizing figure in politics than this pr!ck? The media gives this scum a free ride as well.
Why does this Kinsella guy get any public platform to espouse his simple minded beliefs? Can’t write, can’t talk, a perfect face for radio, and can’t debate.
“This crap reminds me of my elementry school mock elections where the ‘candidates’ promised Dr. Pepper in the water fountains and 1 hour recess everyday.”
Look, Dan Tappin, some moderates my go for this Dr. Pepper in the fountains thing but what of this extremist nonsense about an hour long recess? 🙂
But seriously, the Liberals promise things and that’s about it. Why anyone is stupid enough to still vote for them beggars the imagination.
McGuinty has so many policies, priorities that some of them are totally inconsistent On the Green energy file, he has made no rational plans for future electricity generation demand, except to build useless wind mills and giant mirrors.
He is relying on conservation and the current manufacturing slump take care of the problem.
At the same time, his people favour the ultimate fantasy the electric car. Where would the electricity come from to power a fleet of such vehicles?
McGuinty’s ideology, similar to socialist dictators of the last century, favour small utilitarian cars with a range of 15-25 miles, enough to get from your apartment to your working cubicle. No need for people to travel where they wish, on a whim, that only wastes energy.
MikeSr: Phantom has it right. Let the guy talk. In case you’ve missed it, Kinsella has tanked every election team he’s been involved with in the last 10 years. He’s never learned the difference between effective criticism and invective. The more he opens his yap, the more the voters are repelled.
So what’s new?
Nothing …. Ontarians have chosen to elect this turd twice already .
McLyin is a proven liar and incompetant…. yet he gets to continue the same behaviour again and again.
What does it take to squeeze this turd out of the public orifice?
I’m starting to feel better about the election, because Wornout Kantsellya is working for the Liberals.
Posted by: The Phantom at September 8, 2011 3:35 PM
Yup. Wee-wee Kinsella’s support usually turns out to be a liability.
by the way, who’s behind the ‘vote against kids’ campaign and why that route?
CEO
Those “vote against kids” ads are sponsored by the elementary teachers…and according to the Ottawa evening news there will be some sort of revelation later this month that will make the ads clear to voters. Nobody understands them so far.
Ontario is getting the government it deserves.
They re-elected McSquinty last time, despite all his lies, and, it’s likely to happen again.
Wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing, Ontario goes right down the financial sinkhole…..with BC to follow later, thanks to the same stupid Liberal dumba$$ gubmint
Canada and all the provinces are headed to the crapper. It doesn’t really matter whether it happens next month or next year. Elect the NDP if you’re in a hurry. The Lieberals will take us there a few months later. The conservatives, bless their pointy little heads will stall things for a year.
There is no way out but we still let them run the show. We’re the stupid ones.
Margaret needs to follow Christie over to the National Post.
Dullard McNulty should be turfed out on his ear for Caledonia alone. What a disgusting eight years.
It could have been four but John Tory did his usual thing when given the chance.
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Dullard McNulty should be turfed out on his ear for Caledonia alone. What a disgusting eight years.
It could have been four but John Tory did his usual thing when given the chance.
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Obviously the Liberals are following the out moded advice of yesterday’s man – Wornout Kantsellit – and running a typical Librano socially divisive campaign of identity politics. In this case, attempting to bribe newly arrived ethnics. Too bad these visionless spinners missed the message sent by the voter demographic that put Harper in a majority – Harper got a large chunk of the immigrant/ethnic vote because he showed respect for these communities and treated them like average Canadians, not some pathetic foreigners who constantly need nanny state wiping their bottoms and telling them they are different. Immigrants want to feel accepted as fellow Canadians, not some ghettoized community important only when political hacks are harvesting votes.
Wake up Liberals, the identity politics paradigm has shifted and it was shifted right by the immigrant communities themselves.
Warren Kant-sell-it is a lead pipe lock.
Warren signs on to Rocco Rossi’s campaign.
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Exciting-New-Talent-Joins-Rocco-Rossi-Campaign-1312062.htm
Rocco Rossi’s campaign sleeps with the fishes.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/city-votes/wise-guy-eh-rossis-new-campaign-ads-play-on-mob-theme/article1714964/
After seeing Mr. Hudak’s about-face on the provincial HRC I’m not impressed by him or his party. However, I’d like Mr McGuinty to be replaced as soon as possible. Too bad there isn’t an equivalent to the Wildrose Party (of Alberta) here in Ontario–they’d get my vote. What Ontario really needs is to get back to the tried and true conservative values that build businesses and communities.