- Harper appealing to the middle of the road, that would be an Extreme Makeover.

Comments on TS “Politicians mine middle class for success”, 14 Feb.’09, Bruce Campion-Smith, http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/587562


Middle class also means middle of the road in Canadian politics, it seems to me.

For Harper to appeal to the middle class either Harper will have to move to the center from the extreme right – not bloody likely, no matter how many makeovers, extreme or otherwise.

Or the middle will have to move to the extreme right – God help us.

It appears that Harper’s plan is to appear more middle of the road in order to get the middle class vote and retain power but to surely and steadily pull all Canadians and Canadian society more and more to the extreme right politically (compare Harper’s speech in Fredericton at the beginning of the last election – 13 Sep.’08).