[NovemberCharlie]

Steyn on the Canadian election campaign.

[NovemberCharlie]

Ping to the Steyn List, and to your list.

[Mr. Mojo]

You may say he's a dreamer, but he's not the only one. Our rock'n'roll government feels the same. "Imagine fewer possessions, a smaller older car than your cousin in Florida, no affordable vacations except to Cuba. It's easy if you try," sing the Liberal lemons. "Imagine all the people living life in peace, holding hands together as they sit in emergency at the Royal Victoria for 48 hours."

lol....Lennon/Lenin bump!

[Batrachian]

What Steyn alludes to, but doesn't quite come out and say, is that most Canadians don't give a rat's rear-end about democracy. As long as they get free health care, no matter how crummy, all is well.

Well, we're heading that way too.

[Choose Ye This Day]

On the other hand, it was a lot better than the night U2 played Oslo, and they came on stage in a 40-foot high lemon-shaped mirror ball, which was supposed to open like a flower, but instead jammed and left Bono and co trapped inside as the lasers and dry ice whirled around them, a frenzy of visual accompaniments lacking anything to accompany.

Shades of Spinal Tap. Just play the music.

[Viking2002]

ANother good Steyn article. One point of contention: Bono's only in his mid forties. Given the longevity of guys like Robert Plant and Roger Daltrey, I hardly think that qualifies Bono as 'elderly'.

[McGavin999]

I really don't think the Canadians are going to change their government. They like being taken. They have had chance after chance after chance but they continue to go the same way. They are actually living under the dictatorship of Quebec.

I think the result of this will be that the west will leave the Commonwealth.

[goldstategop]

Demand Better isn't the pure conservatism Mark Steyn and quite a few Canadians favor. But it has the virtue of having cross-over appeal. Basically, get government spending under control and institute checks and balances on Canada's government. Its not remaking Canada in the U.S image and thanks to decades of Liberal fear-mongering, most Canadians are not ready to accept a more free society in one fell swoop. Indeed in some respects, Stephen Harper and his Conservatives are to the left of many U.S RINOs. But they're still a major improvement over the corrupt tax and spend kleptocracy Paul Martin and his Liberals have presided over the past decade. Even Ronald Reagan didn't the U.S to where it is today in his own lifetime. Any successful conservative enterprise is going to take more than a generation of work to secure the blessings of liberty for all.

[gcruse]

Reading Steyn's Rock 'n' Roll politics while, in the background, watching/listening to Janis Joplin on A&E Biography as it segues into the life of Jimi Hendrix is tres cool. Tres.

[hocndoc]

Imagine!!

Once again, Mr. Steyn hits his mark by pointing out the marks.