PRO-LIFE LIBERALS
I do not know how many more posts I will write before the election but this is a question that has stumped me for years now; the question of pro-life Liberals.We know who they are...the Dan McTeague's, Tom Wappel's and Alan Tonk's.
All members of the Liberal Party of Canada running for re-election.
How do they feel running for a party which has excessivley for two elections now demonized all that they believe and stand for?
How can they run under a leader who explicitly said all that they stand for as Christians and Catholics is anti-Canadian?
How can they be a member of a party that will never allow them a free vote on these issues unless they are willing to be nothing more than powerless backbenchers while they watch radical secularists such as Scott Brison, Pierre Pettigrew and Belinda Stronach advance to the front lines?
If they are serious about their views (and I no longer assume that they are) how can they ever look at Paul Martin the same way again?
I used to respect those Liberals who defied the party on issues such as SSM and abortion, now I see them as part of the problem. They only confuse voters. Too many pro-life voters vote for them thinking they are doing good by their faith, yet electing them means giving an extra seat to a party who overall will ensure that this agenda never sees the light of day and will demonize all of those who hold it.
I suspect many of these Liberals are too reticent to admit that their party has changed. The Liberal Party of Canada is little more than NDP light. No longer the party of the working class, church going immigrant but the party of the secualr, urban extremist whose sole goal is to eradicate religion from the public sphere.
That these candidates can stand hand in hand with Paul Martin and run under the Liberal banner does not make them courageous.
It makes them dupes.
posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 3:33 PM
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Pettigrew is finished tomorrow. Scott and Belinda are in the fight for their political lives. If Belinda is re-elected, she'll soon seek out an exit strategy since she'll be bored sitting as a lowly opposition backbencher. That's why she crossed the floor after all.
Tomorrow is also the beginning of the end of Paul Martin. After so much promise and expectation, after Liberals predicted the largest majority in Canadian history, after years of scheming for the top job, tomorrow Paul Martin will join John Turner, Kim Campbell and others as an immemorable blip in Canadian history.
The Liberals need to rebuild and hopefully they'll be worth voting for again someday.
Hey Nicol,
Have you had a chance to read God's Politics yet?
Found this on Bound by Gravity but tweaked it a little bit.
So bye bye Mr. Martin you lied,
Now you've killed the Liberal Party
and Belinda might cry
Jean's good ol' boys will be kissing you bye
Singing this will be the day the Liberals died!
Three words for you, Nicol:
Ab. So. Lutely. I just posted on this non-dilemma.
I've wondered the very same thing for quite some time. It's all a part of the Liberals' divide and conquer, us-versus-them mentality. It's not just on moral issues, either. In the past week we've seen Martin do the same thing on the east-west divide, telling Nova Scotians that Peter MacKay won't matter in a Conservative government because everything will be controlled in Calgary. How do you deal with western alienation when you've told one section of the country that they are, in one way or another, the centre of unCanadian values? How about the anti-American card? Bash the States all you want and then turn around after the election and expect them to understand that that's just electoral politics, no hard feelings.
The problem with the so-con bashing is Martin doesn't realise just how many people don't go along with the liberalising policies many in the media would have us believe are now core Canadian values. Most Canadians are not in favour of the nine month open season on the unborn. True, the number of people who are hard-core anti-abortionists is a minority, but most people do believe the practice should be limited. Most Canadians are not happy about SSM but to recoginise that fact in the political arena is to admit to being some sort of bigoted caveman. I think a lot of people don't say how they really feel to pollsters or random street interviewers because they are afraid of how it will look if people know that they don't go along with the values the media tell us we're supposed to hold. A lot of people on the left are very aggressive in the way they portray people people with traditional values.
Maybe it's time for some of these "conservative" Liberals to get the screws put to them by their constituents to find out just whose side they're on.
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