Apolitical Staples

News flash, the Sun and Asper papers and the blogging tories think Dion is an idiot. Stop the presses! It would be bigger news if they suddenly turned on Harper. But I think I will see Gerry Nicholls at a Labour Day picnic before that happens. ;)

Except, like the Travers article,

this one is from the left, lefty, lefta, leftaroni, leftyleftyramabamadingdong,

Torontor Star.

Which,

is to the left.

Notice how Delacourt, like Travers, is trying to ‘boost’ Dion by stating that he is ‘just like Harper’!!

Travers tries to say that Dion is a ‘wonk and socially inept’ - like Harper. Except that Harper isn’t a ‘wonk’ and isn’t socially inept.

Delacourt is trying to state that Dion’s behaviour is not really valid; it’s due to the Policy Boys of the Backroom. No, I think it’s the Real Dion.

Dion is a narcissist, he’s extremely manipulative in his tactics to gain control and power and he’s authoritarian.

Dion is behaving like a Full Professor and treating everyone in the Liberal Party as his undergrad students. He knows ‘what’s best’. He has even divided them into groups - a well-known academic strategy of dividing your students into groups to discuss issues. Can you imagine - Dion is treating these people as if they were his undergrad students!! But - he marks the papers.

His focus on the env’t is a tactic to define the Liberal Party as pure, to offset the old impure scandal Sponsorship Party. The ‘new Dion’ party will align itself with Purity. The environment. Indeed, Dion’s images of the env’t are the ‘forests and waters’ of the country.

That’s why the Liberals focused on the env’t; because they equate it with Purity. Opposed to scandal. The problem is - Dion knows zilch about the env’t. Nothing about Kyoto. Nothing about the economy. He’s a disaster.

But, he has one agenda. Winning. And the way he, and the Liberals, operate, is by emotional manipulation.

So- be for The Environment, because it imagizes as Purity. That’s for the vote in Quebec and Ontario.

Be for Women in Parliament; that’s for the vote in Ontario and Quebec.

Be against Alberta and state that they are rich only because it’s ‘easy money’. That means you can tax it - and that’s for the vote in Quebec, Quebec.

It’s all about votes. Manipulation. And Power. That’s Dion.

So, really this is a mystery story. Why is a lefty pushing CPC talking points?

Delacourt is saying to her Pravda readers:

“Liberal leader’s new partisan posture more like Harper’s, less like the man party members chose at their convention”

which is code for:

“Listen up Liberals we know there are some postures that you don’t like about Dion. But those are Harper-like things that disgust us. ‘Partisan Posturing’ is a bit too close to deciding for Liberals to tolerate. We don’t decide anything because it might upset a voter somewhere in Lebanon.

“So I would suggest that you just hold your nose on those postures otherwise you are going to get more real decisions from Harper. Whatever bad things you see in Dion, they are conservative traits; we’ll try to get ‘the man” back on track with dawdling, like he was at the convention. Stay tuned.”

Well don’t count on the Star to diss Dion,