The state of the Liberal party

Colby Cosh has a good piece up today on what the Liberal party has evolved into:

Do you know a lot of small businessmen, tradesmen, physicians, or farmers who vote Liberal? Study the party’s candidates, and notice how, when the Grits get hold of someone who has attained anything at all in the private sector, like Ken Dryden, they can barely restrain their bladders.

In the mass, the Liberal corps is a undifferentiated gang of teachers, lawyers, “activists,” “consultants,” and ethnic “community leaders,” seasoned with a few jumped-up backwoods mayors and former Liberal staffers eager to play boss. Even the ones who have some sort of business background normally bear the oddball stamps of Liberality. The ideal Liberal candidate would be someone who learned the stern truths of private business (by running his uncle’s confectionery in Moosonee for six months) before earning a doctorate in International Meddlesomeness Studies and chairing a Multicultural Friendship Planning Commission on Environmental Sensitivity.

What? Yes, I know the Conservative candidate I'm supporting is a 'jumped-up backwoods mayor', what's your point?

Posted by Bruce Gottfred at May 24, 2004 11:27 AM | TrackBack