Comments on: BTC: Family is everything (IV)

By: Sandi

Sandi — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:49:53 +0000

I think Loreen has kept herself pretty low key and in the background – Mulroney used Mila as eye-candy. So, picking on her, to me, is unfair. And face it, it’s all about Harper and he just couldn’t let his wife get in the way of his spotlight…no, no, no….It’s Steve all the time.

BUT – does this mean that Dion, Layton, Duceppe and May aren’t family folks – do they beat their kids or something?

I don’t vote for a candidate wife or kids.

By: Mike G

Mike G — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:03:14 +0000

“Every candidate pulls their wives, [...] up front, have them speaking and the next thing you know their political views [...] Look, Laureen’s a wonderful person and very supportive. Very supportive not just of me, but very supportive of the things the Conservative party stands for. She was conservative before I met her”

Help, I am drowning in a sea of self-contradiction. Heeeellllppp

By: MJ Patchouli

MJ Patchouli — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:10:27 +0000

Mila made the freaking RCMP salute her, remember?

Laureen Harper is listed with her husband on the CPC website as the co leader of the CPC.

Huh? Anyone remember voting for wifey? Just such silly conservative style crap — very progressive for women, eh?

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:03:07 +0000

Macleans. Far left. In the same sentence.

Mental gymnastics. Amazing.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:47:46 +0000

JK -

Nah, more like Blogging Tories without the foul language.

By: JK

JK — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:29:24 +0000

Wow, this is the Macleans far left spot.

This is as bad the Daily Kos.

By: Torontonian

Torontonian — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:44:17 +0000

@jwl @ 4:48 pm
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. . . Is it common for PM’s wife to do campaign events or is this something new, copied from U.S.? . . .
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Isn’t this more like a replay of Brian/Mila back in 1984? Remember Mila and her office on
the Hill? Yes, that Mila. Same thing, all over again.

By: kody

kody — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:07:20 +0000

Another scandal:

“Harper hates his children gate”.

First witness up on THIS ethics sub-committee?

You guessed it:

Mulroney!

By: David

David — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:59:37 +0000

Stephen Harper shakes hands with a campaign asset:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060125/elxn_aftermath_wrap_060125?s_name=&no_ads=

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:50:55 +0000

Harper is a creepy political opportunist whose use of his family as campaign props is reprehensible. Uncouth.

By: kody

kody — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:49:31 +0000

Word on the street is the Liberals are planning on forming an ethics sub-committee after the election, to look into:

Sweatervestgate.

Their first witness – Mulroney, of course.

By: kody

kody — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:47:14 +0000

I like Style’s style.

By: Style

Style — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:24:01 +0000

Absolutely – if Laureen is out there meeting Conservative campaign workers like Harper says, the media must subject her to the same close scrutiny they give her husband. What is she currently wearing? Is she too betraying the country and her party by wearing a sweater vest?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:10:36 +0000

If she is going to be political by actively campaigning, she is fair game for close scrutiny. Can’t have it both ways, Steve.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:10:19 +0000

“I heard him say that and I wondered what Laureen would be doing exactly.”

She’ll be making out with Stephen. In public. In parks. On street corners. In the bus. In the plane (toilet).

Remember the kiss Tipper gave Al to “humanize” him in the 2000 elections. Well, get ready cuz Laureen is going to publicly have — — with Harper.

Humanized he will be, damn it.

By: jwl

jwl — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:48:46 +0000

“Mrs. Harper, Laureen, will do a lot in the campaign.”

I heard him say that and I wondered what Laureen would be doing exactly. Is it common for PM’s wife to do campaign events or is this something new, copied from U.S.?

By: D

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:46:23 +0000

Stephen Harper. Proud father of two “campaign assets”.

Stick to the issues Steve, and leave the family-man pandering out of it…

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:36:13 +0000

Serves him right if at every appearance the press notes “Harper-proclaimed campaign asset son/daughter was present/absent”.