Check out this op-ed piece from Ed Mazer, President of the Brandon-Souris Conservative electoral district association.
...Show me one media story featuring Mr. Harper, his real opinions or the policies of his party. You will find none.
When his party is doing its job in Parliament, it is described as obstructionist.
If the Bloc takes a similar position to the Conservatives, it means Harper is in bed with the separatists. If the party tries to cooperate on the budget, they are no better than the Liberals. If they disagree with the Liberals, they are out of touch with Canadian values.
If the Conservatives are livid at Liberal waste and mismanagement, they are angry old men (even though they have the caucus with more young people, women, and minorities than any other).
Mr. Harper is told to stop being so serious and become a grinning gladhander.
But wait — if he did that he would be a huge hypocrite for pretending to be what he is not.
It seems everything is wrong about Stephen Harper, even though in reality most things are right. It is a Robert Stanfield situation all over again.
As Stanfield once said: “If I learned to walk on water, the press would complain that I couldn’t swim!”
