Why we should re-elect Stephen Harper: Gwyn

[CHIMO]

It has been said that once you reach 80 years old you can get away with saying anything you like (not least because no one any longer pays attention to anything you say).

Even though still a few months short of the four-score mark, let me test that theory by uttering the most outrageous statement it is possible to utter in this country at this time, let alone to flourish it in everyone’s faces in a column in a newspaper.

This heretical proposition is that a good case can be made that the best result for Canadians and for Canada in the election due in 2015 would be the re-election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Having just offended almost all my personal friends and colleagues and, far more serious, enraged an overwhelming majority of Star readers, let me admit hastily that defects in this proposition are easy to enumerate.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/01/06/why_we_should_reelect_stephen_harper_gwyn.html

[Locut0s]

1. In other words....

"Who better to get the nasty but necessary reforms and belt-tightening done than someone everyone loves to hate?"

In other words I have conservative values, believe in conservative economic principals of austerity in bad economic times, so I propose we elect a conservative. This isn't an argument to reelect Harper it's simply an admission by the author that he is a conservative.

[CanSocDem]

2. This is why...

...I NEVER paid attention to Richard Gwyn or thestar. He was senile long before he turned 80.

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