The Secret Diary of Stephen Harper: Mean Schoolyard Bully Type Puffin Attack Ads

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Mean Schoolyard Bully Type Puffin Attack Ads

The secret coronation of Bobama Rae as Real Leader of the Puffin Party of Canada coincides with a disturbing new negative ad about The Real Harper. I must say I don't like the subject matter - we're working on this - but the production values are pretty classy for an ad done on your kid's Macintosh. A nice noir touch, like a Forties newsreel. Warren Kinsella says it was put together by a punk friend of his, Don Millar, and then makes a shameless pitch for his excellent book, "The War Room."

Want to know what I think? I think you New Puffins are just being sleazy, stubborn and vindictive. These orchestrated US style attack ads are worrisome and troubling to Canadians. They are a symptom of the New Puffin Party's hostile, arrogant, uncaring, unfeeling attitude.

Canadians want you to stop being such schoolyard bullies.

Talk Tough Like Mike

•“Look, this is America and you have to decide what kind of country you want. This is your country as much as it is mine.” - 2004
*"Look, if I lose, I'll just move back to Massachusetts." - to the Harvard Crimson newspaper - 2006
*“If you mess with me, I’ll mess with you until I’m done.”
• "You're looking at someone who turned down the chance to become Prime Minister of Canada, and I did so, in part, because I felt it would divide the country."
• “I don’t need any lessons in legitimacy from Harper.”
• “He knows where to find me.”
• "He's creating a parliamentary crisis and dividing the country."
• "It’s his budget, not mine."
• "It's up to Harper to make the right decision and up to me to decide if he made it."
• "We're putting the government on probation."
•"Mr. Harper, your time is up.”
*"This is a prime minister who a year ago was trying to make you embarrassed if you liked opera or classical music or the ballet or poetry. I mean, come on, let's get over this. You can like hockey, you can like classical music. Let's stop playing Canadian against Canadian and taste against taste."

The Susan Delacarte Stephen Harper Attack Thesaurus (Under Construction)