- Harper an Extremist - The Devil You Say, But then, Just Exactly What Does Harper Mean By "we will fight [the coalition] with every means that we have"

Submitted: 7:34am, PST, 5 Jan.'11 The Toronto Star
Harper’s coalition jibes might just create one, Jan 5 2011, Thomas Walkom, Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/916030--walkom-harper-s-coalition-jibes-might-just-create-one

There is no doubt that Harper will crank up to uber-hype on co-alition between the Liberals, NDP and yes even the Block.

It matter not a bit to Harper whether this hype has the least bit of truth to it and it is not designed to win over voters. It doesn't even matter if it sounds plausible or not.

This hyper-rhetoic is aimed precisely at the die-hard, right wing extremists, epi-centred in Alberta that already support Harper and the Con's pretty much no matter what, which registers 33% in the opinion polls.

The other 66% are the moderate majority that don't want Harper running this country and are not likely to vote Con because of talk of a co-alition.

"losers don't get to form coalitions" is not a statement of some kind of universal truth or even Con dogma, it is a political 'call-to-arms' to animate Harper's die-hard supporters to bigger and better support.

But, when Harper states that:
"we will fight it with every means that we have"
(In Parliament on 2 Dec.'08 and Peter McKay this is in Hansard),

or,

"Friends, a Liberal-NDP-Bloc Quebecois coalition is something we can never let happen to this country."[Stephen Harper - at the annual Con barbeque in Calgary](Winnipeg Free Press, 11 Jul.'10)

all Canadians should be asking themselves, just exactly what does Harper mean by that.


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