Apolitical Staples

Gee, a woman who doesn’t like Stephen Harper. Who would image?

MoreCud says, “creating American style misgivings about the opposition”

Well that’s a cudfull. I don’t know where to start. Maybe we should just chew our cud like the Liberals were able to do for 13 years. But here goes …

MoreCud, I’ve got news for you, I don’t just have “misgivings” I have distain. Liberals are dangerous to my country and I want them in the wilderness for 13 years so they can repent and come back a humbled party.

What we have here is painfully obvious … a Liberal who is taken aback that there actually are people who have “misgivings” about them. It has never occurred to many Liberals that they have to actually stand for something if they are to lead. That there might be those of us who do not agree with what they stand for and that we have the audacity to say so.

MoreCud is in shock! That’s a beginning, now on with the chewing of the cud.

Why would a woman be particularly inclined to dislike Harper?

Do all women think alike?

Should they?

I am trying to bridge my point from the other day, Alan. Not too successfully, I grant you.

I don’t know what your point from the other day was, but you seem to be suggesting that it would somehow be abnormal or unusual for a woman to support Harper. Do you think its unnatural for a woman to vote CPC? Do you think women tend to vote en masse because they are women, and that those who counter that trend are somehow voting contrary to their own interests or nature?

Why would a woman be, as you seem to be suggesting, predisposed to a dislike of Harper?

         She begins by saying

As a teacher in a multicultural society, I taught that slanders and slurs are a reflection on the defamer, not the victim.”

Than with hardly a pause or reflection she says “To me, he’s a dictator controlling everything: smear campaigns, suppression of the press and false promises. Is the party afraid to have him open his own mouth in public to show his skill or lack of it? Why does the party machine vet his answers.

Talk about being oblivious to her own hypocrisy.

“The Canadian way is to rise by personal merit.” I can’t believe someone actually said that. All those patronage appointments, by all Parties, all Governments, were based on merit. The mind boggles. My favorite “merit based” appointment has to be Alfonso Gagliano as ambassador to Denmark.

My observation is strictly anecdotal. The women I talk to about Harper (not all communists) see Harper as cold and uncaring and generally creepy. It is no secret that polling suggests that the Conservative Party does not appeal to women as much as it does men (which was kind of my point the other day in relation to the ads).

How blind does a person have to be to write a letter like that? And this is a teacher. God help us.

“The women I talk to about Harper (not all communists) see Harper as cold and uncaring and generally creepy.”

Perhaps not all communists, but it seems safe to assume from your statement that you never speak to conservative women, many of whom, I assure you, would not refer to Harper as “creepy” or any other such puerile adjective. That’s not really a representative sample, now is it?

I would wager that some women do not base their opinion of Harper on such irrational foundations as a general sense of his “coldness” or “creepiness”, whether they agree with his policies or not.

If the conservatives lag behind in support among women voters, it likely has less to do with any inherent “creepiness” (except among those who would never vote CPC anyway) and more to do with a failure to adequately communicate their policies.

Speak not of what you should do for the greater good of your country, but cover your own ass with entitlements, golden parachute severance packages, spend other peoples money, and get things your way no matter what needs to be done to make it so… That seems to have been the Liberal way for the majority of my life…and I was born the years RH Rud-ho came into power in the 60’s and started to screwed our nation over for Quebec… It’s amazing that these people who are our educators don’t get it and always seem to conveniently forget it was a Liberal Gov’t that help creat a seperatist party and put soldiers in our streets in Canada… Another thing they forget when asking for more social spending is that the money the gov’t spends has to come from somewhere… That’s you and me, the tax payers. “…why do Stephen Harper and the Conservatives promote this reprehensible ad campaign against Liberal leader Stephane Dion? It’s a reflection of their poor judgement and anyone with any morality and intelligence will see it for what it is.”… hmmm well then, so be it. Let the Conservatives go about pointing out the truths and if they fail to win they fail… but looking at the adds I don’t see any Tory’s making the negative comments that aren’t supported by facts and actions taken by her beloved Liberal party that helped coin the phrase “entittled to entittlements”…

“The Canadian way is to rise by personal merit.” Okay, give us some supporting examples please before changing the topic in the same paragraph…

“Is Mr. Harper so worried about his personal ability to create a majority government that he must stoop so low to American-style politics to create misgivings about the opposition?” That is a particularly interesting statement… Here our school teacher appeals to peoples beliefs that Americans are bad… I’m really getting tired of the Liberal mantra about Harper being an American stoog… If not for America… Europe wouldn’t exist as it does today, we would not have any of the technology that spun first out of the end of WWII and later the cold war…things like Microwaves, 2-way radio’s, Cell Phones, Computers, ATM’s, Hybrid Cars, many Semiconductor technologies, Modern day medicine that saves thousands if not millions of lives or improves the status of live daily, etc…

As for judging both leaders on merit…bring it on!!! Harper isn’t hiding anything but I think the same can’t be said on the other side of the fence…

Well, she doesn’t speak for me S. Greg.

And your description of how “women” feel about Mr. Harper doesn’t describe my take on him either.

I am a woman, by the way, but then again I’m in Calgary, so maybe that automatically moves me over to the male knuckledragging redneck category.

Well, she doesn’t speak for me S. Greg.

As I said my “evidence” is strictly anecdotal.

But Bovit, care to wade into why the CPC has trouble with attracting women voters (relative to men)?

Not really, since I trend the other way. I can’t understand why either sex would be attracted to the Liberals, NDP etc. ;-)

I would wager though that anecdotal evidence tends to be onesided. Most of the people who I would talk to, including a lot of women, would feel the way I do.

Birds of a feather, and all that.

I guess the poor woman forgot about all those Liberal attack ads against Harper when Paul Martin was ousted. Must be short term memory loss, something all Liberals have in common, especially Stephane Dion. Although it is next to impossible to remember something you didn’t actually do, like cleaning up the environment when he was the Minister. One thing for sure Stephane Dion isn’t baggage free nor ready to serve.

I’m a woman and support Harper, and was one that voted for him after the merge.

Why would I prefer him? Simply put, he does not remind me of a slippery snake oil salesman out to take advantage of me in any way possible. Rather he will be calm and concise and tell me the truth rather than paint a false picture to protect me from the “harsh realities of the real world.”

Politicians who are over the top are not charismatic in my book, but covering up for insincerity.

Just because a few women do not like Stephen Harper does not mean women do not like Stephen Harper. It means that the people you surround yourself with happen to think the same way you do.

After all, just like because a few crooks are high ranking members of the Liberal Party, all members are crooks.

I’m in Ontario. My wife calls him the chesmaster, in admiring tone. Which gives me pause ;)

I also am a woman and I think Stephen Harper is wonderful.

I believe the “cold, creepy, uncaring” stuff comes directly and incessantly from the women of the PPG.

Well, if we’re compiling anecdotes, my mother (former Berkeley hippie, generally Liberal, considers self feminist) likes Stephen Harper very much.

She claims that there is something very feminine in his leadership style. (She is of the view that women would lead countries very differently from the way men do.)

I got a kick out of that comment… (I don’t agree, of course.)

Chester is a man.

Allllll man.

And he too favours Harper.