Watching someone evil self destruct. Sometimes revenge is unnecessary since evil people can sometimes get their Karmic payback in their lifetime. Warning political rant ahead.
Ex Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is now enjoying watching Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin self destruct and in doing so destroy the Liberal party in our current Canadian federal election.
Martin spent years weaselly plotting to overthrow Chretien who won 3 consecutive Liberal majority governments while acting as Chretien’s finance minister.
After overthrowing Chretien, Martin’s first election got a minority Liberal government, governed poorly (act like a weasel for 10 years and you govern like one apparently), and now it looks like a there will be a minority conservative government on election day this Monday, with the Liberals set to take brutal beating.
I like to think of it in due in part to Martin’s instant karma payback for smearing the entire Canadian military in this attack ad which was one of the most disgusting offensive campaign ads I’ve ever seen and I’m a political science major.
I was in the Canadian Army Reserves, and I was furious when I saw the ad, the creator made Karl Rove look like a man of integrity.
It implied that Stephen Harper wanted Soldiers in the streets of Canadian cities with guns like fascist dictatorships and Soldiers were a threat to ordinary Canadians. They sent it to major media outlets and posted it on their official party website.
Martin tried lying and said it was on a blog but I went to the liberal’s website and watched it there myself. There are already Soldiers with guns in every major Canadian city, they’re called the Miltia, or Army, Navy and Air Force reserves.
The only Canadian government that called Soldiers out on the streets was the governing Liberal Party during the October Crisis in 1970.
Here’s the liberal original attack ad approved by Paul Martin
Martin interviewed on CBC first claiming he didn’t approve the ad, then later he did. He never apologized for slandering the Canadian military, who risk their lives for their country, and something mr. silver spoon martin never did. Arrogant bastard.
I generally prefer the center to the ideological extremes of the left and right but I can’t vote for this pathetic arrogant, lying weasel who is willing to try to destroy the reputation of the Canadian military to do save his sorry ass and lie about it. He’d sell his soul for
He’d sell his soul for power and is essentially a coward. Not everyone liked Trudeau, but even his enemies admitted he had guts. You can’t say that about flip flopping Paul Martin.
I’m not necessarily looking forward to a Conservative government. Harper is essentially an economic libertarian, who has been bright enough to temporarily change his beliefs and accept and adopt some mainstream Canadian ideas, i.e., no US style 2 tiered health care in order to be electable since his true libertarian beliefs are simply unacceptable to the majority of Canadians.
He’s also been smart enough to hide or clamp down on some of the usual conservative wingnuts of his party that usually wind up causing the right wingers to lose elections. Hopefully, they should be able to clean up the corruption in Ottawa and get the liberals out. Hopefully, his government won’t be as corrupt as the last conservative party to run Canada, Lying Brian Mulroney (see
Hopefully, his government won’t be as corrupt as the last conservative party to run Canada, Lying Brian Mulroney (see
On the Take: Crime, Corruption, and Greed in the Mulroney Years by Stevie Cameron.
Brian Mulroney’s corruption makes the Liberal sponsorship scandal seem like small change. I stopped reading halfway through, it was too depressing.
Once the tories win, the liberal party can eliminate martin and his crew who ran the worst liberal campaign I’ve seen in 25 years (the Liberals are known as Canada’s natural governing party) and chose a new leader and rebuild their party. Even some liberals
Even some liberals agree that a term on the benches to clean up their act and reinvent the party will do them good.
Some long time Liberals like Shelia Copps and Warren Kinsella are so disgusted with Martin they’re advising the conservatives on how to win. There’s also a chance that Harper will self-destruct, since he’s apparently a micro managing control freak who doesn’t want any dissenting voices in his inner circle.
Looks like the Martinites are already starting to jump ship to right wing liberal Frank Mackenna the Canadian Ambassador to the US, who it seems does not even have the decency to wait until the corpse (Martin) is dead to start campaigning for the liberal leadership. Having the arrogant inept members of team Martin on his side may prove to be the kiss of death for Mackenna.
Members of the Liberal party don’t just want martin to go, they want a purge of his these idiots too, and any candidate smelling too strongly of the stench of the Martin back room boys will probably be soundly rejected.