P.S. Romney is no RINO, he’s something even more dangerous: a DORC - Democrat Obstructing Republican Conservatives (or Candidates, depending upon the context).
Yeh I know...right? Mitt Romney is such an eerily comparison to the Michael Dukakis debacle. What really opens my eyes to how dark the liberals agenda is, is how they change historical facts (Obama misquoting Reagan for one example) to suit their needs without blinking an eye...they must be brainwashed, possessed, or blinded to any kind of truth by some greater power...or spiritual deception?
I, for one, was rather stunned when slimy Dalton got re-elected.
OTOH, so many immigrants in Ontario who are pandered to by the libs, along with an extemely left media (Sun News was either fairly new or just starting up)helped cause this.
Ontario = California, politically speaking. I still remember when Ontario elected Mike Harris - boy, we’ve come way down.
Welcome to FR, NCC. Good analysis but there are a couple of other points to add:
1. The biggest cause of Eves’ defeat was the first budget after he became Premier in which he cancelled a tax cut and ramped up spending. Harris Tories stayed home in droves; if you compare the popular vote and voter turnout between the 1999 and 2003 elections, you’ll notice that the drop in Tory support was almost equal to to drop in turnout.
2. One of the factors that turned off many conservatives in 2007 was the fact that Tory was once CEO of Rogers Communications, Canada’s most entrenched crony capitalist organization. His entire career was spent currying government favour for his company at the expense of competitors and consumers.
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Has Michelle Obama ever worked a day in her life? I’m not talking about that phony baloney “job” she had with that Chicago hospital where she was paid 300 gs for not showing up. I mean a real job. If she hasn’t, does anyone think for a second that these same Dem hypocrites wouldn’t attack any conservative for claiming she never worked a day outside the house?
Stephen Harper as Canada's Dick Cheney looks like a left-wing talking point. I don't know enough about Harper, but I hope it's not true (sorry, I'm no Cheney fan).
I can see the parallel between Tory and Romney as far as it goes, but Tory sounds like one of those inexperienced figures the Canadian establishment loves to parachute into the top job (Trudeau, Ignatieff).
By contrast, Romney's been campaigning for some time. He's not starting at the bottom and doesn't have the most experience in politics, but it sounds like he's ahead of Tory so far as political experience goes.
Mitt Romney may not be a convincing conservative to conservatives, but he's not taking the kind of stands in his campaign that it sounds like Tory did. Rather, it's his past record that comes back to haunt him.