THE GOLDFISH PARTY

I once wrote an op-ed piece calling the Reform Party of Canada the TOOTH-FAIRY PARTY because they were making crazy promises that any sane or reasonable person had to know we're just plain stupid.  (Sit back down, Alberta, I'm not talking to you).

This was back in the Stockwell Day years, who, until very recently, was the most clueless idiot ever to lead a Canadian Political party.

Then feckless frat-boy Andy Scheer showed up. 

(this is his interview face on Powers & Politics - seriously?)

I say these things about him mostly because he's prone to ridiculous stunts that only a private school jock would think make him look cool, like when he ambushed Trudeau at the Acadian celebration in Nova Scotia, yelling incoherently while grinning like a drunk freshman who'd just Punk'd the Dean during homecoming.

(actual screen shot of Andy Scheer after he "ambushed" Trudeau during an Acadian celebration)

And I say "cool" knowing full well "cool" isn't a word anyone would use to describe Skippy Scheer unless they saw him on an ice flow without a coat.

The funny thing is, I don't seem to be the only picking up on this. The more visible Andy's been this election the lower his party's polling numbers have been.

Had he stayed out of the limelight, had he not left home, I really do believe Andrew Scheer would've been our next Prime Minister.

And I feel bad for the candidates running for his party who, despite the fact I disagee with them on damn near everything, are mostly eager and earnest people trying to do something they believe in.  They don't deserve to be following the juvenile arse-mongle that is Andrew Scheer (well, most of them don't deserve to be following him, some of them are just as juvenile and racist).

Now maybe its because that doughy smirk appears to be permanently plastered in his feckless gob makes him look like not much is going on inside; or maybe it's because his infantile and often conflicting statements are often full blown hypocrisy even his own party can recognize; but more and more it appears Andy's presence is their biggest liability.

Conservatives have spent more than a decade arguing Leadership matters and Andy's is apparently driving people away from their Party.   

I won't pretend this doesn't please me, but in the back of my head I'm very worried that the next feckless leader of the Conservatives will somehow be more of an idiot but restrained enough to stay out of the limelight during an election, and then, because we don't know what we're getting, that idiot could become Prime Minister of Canada.  At least with Andy we know what intolerant cow we're getting our racist milk from.

Or worse! The next leader could be another Stephen Harper, a thing that frankly seemed more like Darth Vader and Dick Cheney's illegitimate love child than a human being.

In the meantime though, we have a Conservative Party leader who forgives recent racist statements made in his own party one day (google Michael Cooper, New Zealand)...

And condemns Trudeau for an insensitive costume & make-up choice Justin apologized for wearing at a Halloween party the year Bianca Andrescuu was born (a full 12 years before he entered public service) the next.

Yeah, it's politics.  Yeah, they've got a double standard to maintain, but unless they've got the memory of goldfish, it's pretty ballsy to think this wouldn't be easily turned back on them. 

Which it was, of course. 

 
Because the person they're trying to replace evolved, putting the things of childhood (and college frat kids) behind him decades ago BUT Andrew Scheer is with The Goldfish Party.