A message to Conservatives: Smarten up – serious times need serious leaders

[beaverdam]

Andrew Coyne,,, really !

You mean the journalist guy that is 1st cousins to Pierre Elliot Trudeau's daughter???

You mean that Liberal,,, who is paid to pretend to be a Conservative?

from Wiki;
Deborah Margaret Ryland Coyne (born February 24, 1955) is a Canadian constitutional lawyer, professor, and author. She is the cousin of journalist Andrew Coyne and actress Susan Coyne, and the niece of former Bank of Canada governor James Elliott Coyne.

She was an employee in the Prime Minister's Office of John Turner, before spending two years teaching constitutional law at the University of Toronto Law School; she has also worked for the Business Council on National Issues, the Ontario Health Service Appeal and Review Board, and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.

For years, Coyne dated former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.[2] Her daughter, Sarah Elisabeth Coyne, is Trudeau's only daughter, and was enrolled in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Coyne is a Conservative, along the same lines as Ana Navarro is a Republican. They are Media people pretending to give a point of view,,, a softened point of view, more in line with what the Media wants to hear.

[Hamloc]

Andrew Coyne,,, really !

You mean the journalist guy that is 1st cousins to Pierre Elliot Trudeau's daughter???

You mean that Liberal,,, who is paid to pretend to be a Conservative?

from Wiki;
Deborah Margaret Ryland Coyne (born February 24, 1955) is a Canadian constitutional lawyer, professor, and author. She is the cousin of journalist Andrew Coyne and actress Susan Coyne, and the niece of former Bank of Canada governor James Elliott Coyne.

She was an employee in the Prime Minister's Office of John Turner, before spending two years teaching constitutional law at the University of Toronto Law School; she has also worked for the Business Council on National Issues, the Ontario Health Service Appeal and Review Board, and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.

For years, Coyne dated former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.[2] Her daughter, Sarah Elisabeth Coyne, is Trudeau's only daughter, and was enrolled in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Coyne is a Conservative, along the same lines as Ana Navarro is a Republican. They are Media people pretending to give a point of view,,, a softened point of view, more in line with what the Media wants to hear.

Beaverdam first off I do agree that Andrew Coyne is in today’s world is a Liberal pretending to be a Conservative commentator. But using who he is related to as justification for his outlook doesn’t always work. My sister went to University and got her PhD and her political views are much different than mine. So while what house or family you were born or raised in has an influence so does your lived experience. As an example, the last 2 years of the pandemic has has quite an effect on how I view government and fellow Canadians.

[chuckChuck]

Coyne is a fiscal conservative and he has some good advice. And fellow Conservative Jason Kenney is saying the same thing about the extremists and loonies that are buzzing around. Maybe the problem you wont listen to either, is that you and some of the usual suspects on Agrisilly are part of the problem?

"What he did leave was a party that was all too prone to picking needless fights and peddling conspiracy theories – the party, or rather that section of it that is attracted to this sort of thing, that thinks the World Economic Forum is a threat to our freedom, but cheered on the lawless mob that occupied Ottawa. To subscribe to such idiocies does not prove you are a principled conservative. It merely marks you as unfit to govern.

That is what the party will have to decide in this race: whether it wants to be a serious party with serious ambitions of governing, or a marginal party for marginal cranks. Again: this is not about ideology! A party that put forward radical proposals to raise Canada’s productivity, to restore order to our finances, to repair our bedraggled military, or to reform our dysfunctional democracy, would be offering the country a useful alternative to the Liberals. With the right salesman, it could find a market."

[WiltonRanch]

Coyne is a fiscal conservative and he has some good advice. And fellow Conservative Jason Kenney is saying the same thing about the extremists and loonies that are buzzing around. Maybe the problem you wont listen to either, is that you and some of the usual suspects on Agrisilly are part of the problem?

"What he did leave was a party that was all too prone to picking needless fights and peddling conspiracy theories – the party, or rather that section of it that is attracted to this sort of thing, that thinks the World Economic Forum is a threat to our freedom, but cheered on the lawless mob that occupied Ottawa. To subscribe to such idiocies does not prove you are a principled conservative. It merely marks you as unfit to govern.

That is what the party will have to decide in this race: whether it wants to be a serious party with serious ambitions of governing, or a marginal party for marginal cranks. Again: this is not about ideology! A party that put forward radical proposals to raise Canada’s productivity, to restore order to our finances, to repair our bedraggled military, or to reform our dysfunctional democracy, would be offering the country a useful alternative to the Liberals. With the right salesman, it could find a market."

Agreed.