Be Strong LPC: Doing The Right Thing Is The Right Thing To Do

It's not because the OLO wrongly wanted an election at all costs in the Fall that we should now commit ourselves, internally, to avoid an election at all costs in the Spring. There is a time to avoid an election and there is a time to fight an election. It's actually quite easy to tell the difference: You must fight when your most important principles & values are at stake, and you can avoid one when they are not. Having wrongly approved the 2009 Con budget, it was ridiculous to look to bring down the Govt in the Fall, without any clear issue, after a lost summer - there was no logic. But it would be even more ridiculous, risible, indeed shameful, soul- & party-destroying, not to say democracy-destroying, for the OLO to be so set in its plans as to kowtow to Bonapartism in the Spring. I have gone on the assumption, based on Iggy's performance, that the "no Spring election" was clever framing, given the evident exigencies of the political calendar, and Donolo's canniness. But BCer's shameful quietism worries me, as I wonder whether, given BCer's frequent self-assumed or semi-official role (it's hard to tell) as pre- & post-apologist for past Iggy foolishness, he is not only speaking for his nervous Nellie self, who would rather sell his country & its democracy down the river than have the LPC engage in a difficult campaign over fundamental principles, but is speaking for others, in the OLO perhaps, who are now determined to pursue a supposed "long game", no matter what the circumstances; so risible this term, in this argument: how long a game should the LPC being willing to play, will we still be getting to told to play the long waiting game when we've lost the right to vote, when Parliament never meets, because, hey, any day now, Canadians are suddenly going to vote Liberal en masse and deliver us our god-given majority, and anything less is not good enough? In-sane!

Democracy, LIBERALISM!, is more important than partisan considerations. A true liberal, a proud liberal, a real liberal, will always be known by his readiness to declare, "My Country Before My Party!". A coordinated Opposition campaign, though with separate candidates (only because more Con switchers possible that way), pursued with vigour & competence, is almost assured to overthrow our flat-headed Louis "Steve" Napoleon, with the subsequent government ranging from Lib majority (unlikely) to Lib minority to Lib-NDP minority coalition to Lib-NDP minority coalition with Bloc support. But Harper must be stopped, however & whenever.

I don't hear or read anyone other than BCer proposing such aquiescence in the dismantling of our democracy, all other Liberals are up for the fight. As they were all enraged by our sell-out of gun control, another issue on which BCer served as the OLO's pre- & post- apologist. But now even more, and completely united in defence of democracy. So just to be safe, in case that Iggy has reverted to previous idiocy, and unlikely as it may be, BCer is serving as the OLO's unofficial mouthpiece, trying to prepare the terrain for unbelievable cowardice & betrayal of democracy & party ideals, I want to be clear: Iggy, there are fights one simply has to fight, as much as the odds are difficult and one would like to avoid them. To avoid them would be to consign oneself to meaninglessness and uselessness, and render oneself and in this case, one's party, irrelevant. Barclay Plager coined Canada's unofficial national motto years ago: "It's not how many fights you win, it's how many you show up for". OK, in politics, considerations re. winning are important, but there's winning as democrats and there's winning as Liberals. When democracy is abused & suspended, when the executive puts itself above the law, it's not about Iggy, it's not about the LPC, it's about Canadian democracy. You don't have any choice but to fight.

As for BCer, that really was one of the most craven, shameful posts I've ever read. It's simpering internal logic reminded one of Blogging Cons rather than Liberals. Atrocious.