Reply #7: Maybe your right... [View All]

You should tell it to respected columnist Charlie Smith at the Georgia Straight...he thinks Harper is a wolverine.

On that TV show, an adult wolverine attacked a porcupine even though, according to a biologist, it certainly knew the outcome. It killed the porcupine, all right, but at the price, quite likely, of its own life: its mouth full of scores of quills, disabled, and facing almost certain infection.

That’s Stephen Harper. Like the wolverine, he just can’t help being who he is. It’s in his blood; it’s his nature to be contemptuous of other humans. He managed during the election to control that sneering arrogance that had become his trademark persona, but given the power of the prime minister, his true nature rises, inevitably, to the surface in almost everything he does.

Straight:eyes:

Y'all should probably get this stuff 'focus-grouped' so y'all will be on the same page by election...it's very important to 'define' your Opponent, as opposed to defining your issues.

I sure as hell hope that the cynicism of the electorate isn't so fargone that when the election comes there will be a whole lot of people on polling day saying to themselves...'well Harper might be "a scary alien wolverine-like Bush puppet", but he did what he said and knocked a percentage off the GST...good enough for me'.

But we know the public is stupid and much more likely to respond to ridicule, smears and gutter-standards for political debate.

Maybe Torstar can run an internet poll:

Is Stephen Harper a



or a




I understand both are popular with kids these days ;-)