THEOS AND NEOS

I've had a long day today and there's some good television on tonight, so blogging will be limited to one post. Andrew Coyne today (in Asian time) attacked the latest Liberal assault against Stephen Harper.

Okay this is just plain weird. In a darkly paranoid piece entitled Stephen Harper: Taking Canada by Stealth, the Liberals raise the alarm over Harper's secret plan for .... patient incrementalism.

I am not making this up. "Since the beginning of this election," the Liberal press release warns, "Stephen Harper has run a stealth campaign. Mr. Harper is an articulate right-wing, anti-choice candidate who holds radical conservative views and is willing to patiently employ 'an incremental approach' to realize his makeover of Canada and its Government."

An incremental approach? You mean, if we elect this guy Harper, he'll take things slowly, cautiously, one step at a time, not plunge the country into revolutionary chaos? You mean, we might have to elect him again, and again, before he could realize his fiendish master plan? My God! Why weren't we told sooner?

As part of the scare campaign, on their website , the Liberals reproduce in full an article Harper wrote for the the Report magazine. I'm not sure if they received permission to reproduce the full article or if they are just violating intellectual property laws - but I'll leave that to journalists who are actually living in Canada.

For those who haven't read the article please do so. It was one of the reasons I was sold on Harper. I had always thought of him as part of the libertarian-wing of the Reform and Alliance parties and this article reinforced that view. When he spoke of the need to moderate the religious fundamentalism of the Alliance, I didn't feel that he was just doing so to make the party more electable. I felt that he was doing it because he was personally uncomfortable with the party's Puritan elements and that this was an attempt to make them more moderate.

I will only reproduce a brief section of the article here please do go read the whole thing:

You can see this if you pay close attention to the response to the war in Iraq from our own federal Liberals and their cheerleaders in the media and the universities. They argue one day that there are no weapons of mass destruction, yet warn that such weapons might he used. They tell us the war was immoral, then moral but impractical, then practical but unjustified. They argue simultaneously that the war can't be won, that it is too easy for the coalition to win and that victory cannot be sustained anyway. Most striking was their obvious glumness at the fall of Baghdad. But even previous to that were the dark suggestions on the anniversary of September 11 (hinted at even by our own prime minister) that "we deserved it."

This is particularly striking given the nature of the enemy here, the bin Ladens and the Husseins, individuals who embody in the extreme everything the Left purports to oppose--fundamentalism, fascistic nationalism, misogyny, bigotry.

Conservatives need to reassess our understanding of the modem Left. It has moved beyond old socialistic morality or even moral relativism to something much darker. It has become a moral nihilism--the rejection of any tradition or convention of morality, a post-Marxism with deep resentments, even hatreds, of the norms of free and democratic western civilization.

The Liberals reproduced this to scare Canadians away from Harper. It did scare me. It scared me because it reinforced that Harper is right. It also scared me more that by reproducing the article the Liberals were again 'saying we deserved 9-11.'

Fuck them!

Even if it's only brief minority government, I'll be proud to say that Stephen Harper was my prime minister.