robertpeffers@aol.com wrote in news:a3a16a29-8358-4bbb-9c3b-e270a80e1b94 @e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com: > By Kevin Michael Grace > > I have consistently underestimated Stephen Harper throughout his > career, and his victory is a tribute to his ambition and tenacity. > That said, when examined closely, this victory looks very much like a > defeat. > > Every quarter-century or so, the endemic corruption and arrogance of > the Liberals so disgusts Canadians that they take a flyer on the > Conservatives. This occurred in 1930, 1958 and 1984. > > This year, 2006, should have been another Conservative majority year. > All the stars were in alignment. > Paul Martin was a weak and inept leader, nicknamed "Mr. Dithers" or > "Dumpling." His Liberals had been > torn apart by ongoing civil war. The so-called "Adscam" bribery > scandal, perpetrated by Martin's predecessor, Jean Chrétien, simply > refused to die. Finally, the Liberal election campaign was a > shambles. > > Harper, however, managed to win only 114 of 233 seats in English > Canada. This is a worse showing (after adjusting for House of Commons > seat inflation) than managed by Clark or the other great Conservative > loser, Robert Stanfield. > > Harper did so poorly in English Canada because he once again rejected > the Sailer Strategy: he refused > to graze where the grass is. Despite torrential recent Third World > immigration, Canada is still overwhelmingly white: 86% at the time of > the 2001 census. Voters of non-European origin, who tend to be > concentrated in Canada's three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and > Vancouver, are stubbornly Liberal in loyalty and show no sign of > changing allegiance. > > Despite this, Harper pandered to immigrant voters (and even to Tamil > terrorists) And failed with them just as miserably as he did in 2004 > (and George W. Bush has done with Hispanics): the Tories were crushed > in Greater Toronto and Greater Vancouver and shut out in Montreal. > > In his support of Liberal immigration policy (chain migration or > "family reunification") plus ever-increasing numbers (slated to rise > from 245,000, the highest legal rate in the world, to 320,000: 1% per > capita per year), Harper and his Conservatives continue to conspire in > their own destruction. > http://www.politicsforum.org/images/humour/stfu.jpg