Marci Macdonald's book

Have a read of this review by Naomi Lakritz of the Calgary Herald on Marci Macdonald's crappy book "Armageddon Factor", which assumes every policy of the Harper gov't is based on Christian-fundy influence.  "Shrill nonsense" she says.  I agree, but let's go further and just say liberal bullshit nonsense.

The following bit from the article defines where I believe Canadians are at in their ideological beliefs and why this made-up "culture war" by Ekos pollster Frank Graves, the Liberal Party, the CBC, and others is already failing.

"Ordinary Canadians, regardless of faith, were equally outraged that their tax dollars had been frittered away on such garbage; and clearly, the government's response showed it was listening to public sentiment, not that its strings were being pulled by a small group of evangelicals."

Exactly.  Common sense is prevailin.

It's interesting, you know.  The Liberal Party used to defend these same common sense ideas as it's where the majority of Canadians were.  They've lost it and are scraping to get back by any means necessary.  Thing is, Canadians just don't believe their tripe anymore.  I'm not saying they believe everything from the Conservatives, it's just that the Liberals under Ignatieff have really lost the middle ground and it's going to take a bigger scandal that the Guergis-Jaffer affair and worrying about Ignatieff ,of all people, talking about torturing terrorists (a.k.a. 'Afghan detainee transfer issue').  

 

Nothing has stuck. In fact, it's only made the Liberals look like they are trying everything to scrape back and Canadians haven't seen anything in this Conservative government they could really vote against.  The economy is picking up, better than most countries in fact and Canada is asserting itself globally with good old common sense.

So back to the book.  I'm not going to read it, for obvious reasons.  But I ask you to take particular notice of the continued barrage of a made up culture war tactics by lefties in the opposition parties and the mainstream media, and then watch how much Canadians actually give a shit.