Canadians 'liberal and hedonistic' but can change, U.S. right-winger says

[Mother Jones]

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A U.S. right-wing strategist says Canadians are "so liberal and hedonistic" that Stephen Harper can't hope to change their philosophy of "cultural Marxism" right away.

Given time, however, the Conservative prime minister-designate may straighten them out, Paul Weyrich writes.

Weyrich, a Washington fixture since the 1970s, runs a conservative think tank called the Free Congress Foundation.

His contribution to the Harper election effort was to distribute an e-mail last week urging fellow U.S. right-wingers not to talk to Canadian reporters

"Canadian voters have been led to believe that American conservatives are scary and if the Conservative party can be linked with us, they can perhaps diminish a Conservative victory," he warned.

He turns his attention to Canada again this week in an article posted on the foundation's website.

He says he talked to two Canadian Conservatives after the election – one optimistic and one pessimistic about Harper's chances of changing Canada.

The pessimistic view was that Harper, lacking a parliamentary majority, can do little to make Canadians "adopt a more reasonable view of the United States" and abandon Marxist principles "such as same-sex marriage and abortion on demand,"Weyrich says.

"Harper is pleased that the media and many in his own party are nay-saying," he writes. "Harper thinks that such pessimism would lower expectations and give him additional latitude to accomplish his agenda.

"Harper's game plan apparently is to pit the federalist Liberals against the Bloc Québécois and the decentralizing Bloc against big-government Liberals.


http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/01/27/weyrich-harper060127.html

[Spazito]

1. Good, I am glad there are articles showing how the US right wing

are trying to interfere in our country and see Harper as their ally which he is.

[glarius]

2. Ralph Reed , who is under some sort of investigation in the U.S.A. right

now, (he was or still is the head of the right-wing Christian Coalition), was up here before the election. I saw him on CTS, the religious channel speaking before some religious group. He was openly telling them that if they would follow the instructions he would give them, they would elect a conservative government. I posted this before the election. It was unbelievable to me that I never heard or read one word about this in the Canadian media.

[imouttahere]

3. As a soon-to-be-Canadian, all I have to say to this nut is......

FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!

Rarely have those words been so meaningful to me.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. For us Canuks to "adopt a more reasonable view of the United States"

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The United States would have to ACT more reasonable

Simple concept I know

But us Canuks are "simple" that sorta way

:silly:

[UnseenUndergrad]

7. Aye...

But that doesn't mean that the yanks should see us as simple-minded, illiterate "northerners": our women (me mum and aunts) are smart enough to organize overnight carpetbagging (by that we mean shopping) trips to grand forks months in advance to take advantage of the strong canadian/weak american dollar. We're crafty like that.


And iffen those fundie asswipes try anything up here, they'll be facing the business end of a shower of dried corn cobs, apple cores and rotten eggs.

[tlsmith1963]

5. Give Me a Break

Marxism...yeah, right. I am so tired of how they say that liberal always equals Marxist. I don't call all conservatives fascist--just the neocon ones.

Tammy

[V. Kid]

6. This twit should learn basic political terms before he starts...

...running his mouth.

I mean seriously, Paul Martin a marxist? If Paul Martin was a marxist, or a Marxist, then I geuss I'd have to vote strategically for Stephen Harper, who would then I geuss be just somewhat of a hard-left democratic socialist, to keep Canada from experiencing a communist revolution!

[Bassic]

8. Paul Martin a marxist

Now that's a good one.

I mean... who in their right mind can be stupid enough to confidently say something like that?

[Cascadian]

9. The question I would ask this clown is...

Will Canadians "change" before or after the Anschluss? :eyes:

Gawd these people make me sick!


John

[Cascadian]

10. dupe

please remove