Jason Silver

Tuesday, March 9th, 2004

Sheila Copps

My wife is a political science major from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. She's smart, as I've mentioned before. And she's been saying (for as long as I've known her) that Sheila-baby is a loser that shouldn't be in office. (paraphrase) Every time an election comes up we shake our heads in disbelief as she gets voted in again. We have always chalked it up to conservative Canadians preferring the idiot we know rather than some new idiot we don't know. So I'm quite happy it's all over, mostly because my wife knows about this kinda stuff and she's happy. I like how Brian put it:

Sheila is to politics as Martha is to stock trading. She has ridden other's coattails for decades (first daddy Vic's, then John Munro's, then Chretien's) and she's finally being exposed as a fraud. There was no way she would go quietly into the sunset along with Chretien. Kudos to Paul Martin for revealing the empress has no clothes (THERE'S an image I don't need). To Tony Valeri, I offer one piece of advice: Stay above the fray.

This has been said before, but oh well: does the Liberal party really think that this is attractive? In-fighting and scandal makes them look somewhat less than road-worthy. It's a good thing the Canadian public has a short memory. I think politicians depend on that. By the time the next election rolls around, will we have forgotten all about this? There will likely be some enticing candy on the proverbial table which will cause voter salivation. O Lord, please don't let it be so. I'd love to see someone else have a real shot at governing this country. ~Jason
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