Harper losing his base already?
{Via Politics watch}
As Harper broadens, will his base follow?
I find it interesting that Stephen Harper hasn't even made into the Parliament yet, and is already getting beat up by his "base" in Western Canada. He's alienating his base like the NCC and it's members like Gerry Nicolls:
"Canadian conservatives want change not more of the same and they won't tolerate a betrayal of their principles. If you Deep Conservative Party thinkers don't learn this quickly, your party will end up less popular than the Danish ambassador at a Jihadist convention."
This is why I have serious doubts that Stephen Harper will survive very long. He may follow Hugh Segal, and Brian Mulroney's advice and run down the middle of the road to try and gain a majority, and therefore some short term power, but if you lose your core supporters, you are done. In the long run, this seems like yet another inevitable combustion of the "united right" in Canada. The Small C conservatives, and the Big C conservatives will be back to fighting before to long. (Let's face it, it was only a marriage of convienience from day one anyway.) And the Liberals will come strolling back up the middle for another long occupancy, with no really viable opposition.
Someone once said that the definition of stupid is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time. Maybe someone should explain that to the Conservatives, both Big C and Little C. It's foolhardy to think that a party that can't get it straight in it's own house, will be able to do it on a national scale.
As Harper broadens, will his base follow?
I find it interesting that Stephen Harper hasn't even made into the Parliament yet, and is already getting beat up by his "base" in Western Canada. He's alienating his base like the NCC and it's members like Gerry Nicolls:
"Canadian conservatives want change not more of the same and they won't tolerate a betrayal of their principles. If you Deep Conservative Party thinkers don't learn this quickly, your party will end up less popular than the Danish ambassador at a Jihadist convention."
This is why I have serious doubts that Stephen Harper will survive very long. He may follow Hugh Segal, and Brian Mulroney's advice and run down the middle of the road to try and gain a majority, and therefore some short term power, but if you lose your core supporters, you are done. In the long run, this seems like yet another inevitable combustion of the "united right" in Canada. The Small C conservatives, and the Big C conservatives will be back to fighting before to long. (Let's face it, it was only a marriage of convienience from day one anyway.) And the Liberals will come strolling back up the middle for another long occupancy, with no really viable opposition.
Someone once said that the definition of stupid is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time. Maybe someone should explain that to the Conservatives, both Big C and Little C. It's foolhardy to think that a party that can't get it straight in it's own house, will be able to do it on a national scale.
