Harper gets glowing endorsement from the Moonie Times

I love this, this exposes just what kind of neo-con harper is. If I was Layton or Martin I would make this an election issue.

http://washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20051201-081526-4938r">Washington Times

"pro-American"?

will want to send Canadians to die with the Americans too.....which isn't going to go over big with me.

Why aren't the Liberals using this in their ads....I'm sure if Canadians knew this, it would turn them off Harper faster than anything!...If he was P.M. we would be in that war now and young Canadians would be coming home in body bags!

and while we may think it's awful, the Conservative and Conservative-leaning voter doesn't give two shits about it, and if they saw such an ad sponsored by the Liberal party, they would probably tune out anyway or say, "Well, consider the source". So you might as well not harp on it anymore.

It should be a centerpiece in both Liberal and NDP ads. Harper would hand over Canada, gift wrapped, to the bush admin the first chance he got and his apology says exactly that. The only ones I know that are saying 'old news, move on' are faux Cons that know it is bad news for Harper if this is showcased again.

Harper is a bigger Neo-Con that Martin?...did I miss the 1990s?

Martin was/is practised some of the most austere monetarist policies anywhere in the western world?

Martin isn't pro-free trade? The bootlick's wealth comes from hauling Yankee freight and nothing he has done vis a vis NAFTA disputes makes be think he isn't still hauling Yankee freight (Anytime Martin wants to deal with softwood lumber as anything BUT a political football, I'll listen)

Kyoto? Who cares...Martin doesn't...our emissions are up 24% under the liberals...which is worst? Bush who didn't sign it, or Martin who did? Same result.

War? The US asked us to help them kill people three times and we responded twice...Afghanistan and Haiti? Oh well, Martin can improve his batting avg. when the US blasts it's way into Syria or Iran or Venezsuala or etc.

As far as social conservativism...not sure what that is anymore...but come to think of it, I am not sure what Martin believes, other than the fact he says the Liberal Party had a 'few rotten apples' and it's rested, relaxed and ready for another trip to the trough

Let's face it...both will ensure that national debt and inflation are the number one targets and no matter how many homeless people end up in the street, they both will stay the course.

Partisanship is fine...but issues like the economy, war and the environment is a little too important for partisan glibness.

Not only will he disregard policy supporting social justice, he's so damn fixated on his precious little tax cuts that the national debt and inflation aren't priorities either.

...is that Martin is more pragmatic, in the sense that he'll follow the polls and try to stay in power at all costs. Therefore, if its an obvious vote getter to be progressive, he'll do it. Harper is probably too stuborn, and might be able to get a few issues by parliament but his most realistic strategy would be able to pull support from the Liberals and run the country like Germany's grand coalition.

Most will conceed that the Liberals are 'whores' and have policies/principles that are changed to reflect the latest 'number-crunch' and that is why they are successful.

However, I can't say this about Martin as Martin has never been PM with a majority government. I am not exactly sure what Martin would do if his hands aren't tied by the Opposition?

...a pretty right-wing Finance Minister. And when he was going to the polls in 2004 his cabinet was a touch to the right of Chretien's last cabinet. Also, his stewardship of his company indicates that he's likely to be somewhat of a neo-liberal. The only reason I would say he could be more progressive, other than just putting his finger in the wind, is because his Dad helped implement much of the social legislation that took place during Pearson and Trudeau's time. His Dad was a progressive L/liberal, for the time.

Oh sorry, I bow down to lord Layton. Save us oh lord from Paul Martin's destruction of the world!!!

BTW I will be voting NDP in this election. You have no idea about my personal political beliefs.