Slinger Slings at me

Check out this column by the Toronto Star's Joey Slinger.

He says I am "dead wrong" when I condemn what he calls the "liberalization of the Harper Tories."

Essentially, Slinger argues Harper needs all the Liberal voters he can get to win an election and that means he must alienate his base of right wing "loons".

Which just goes to show what a wacky world we are living in these days: A Conservative Prime Minister is seeing eye to eye with a Star columnist.

The Real Stephen Harper

The Ottawa Citizen has an indepth piece today which speculates on what a Harper majority government would be like.

The article notes:

In his first 15 months as prime minister, Mr. Harper has governed more like a cautious centrist: rolling out a big-spending budget aimed at middle-income families, reaching out to moderate Red Tories in his caucus, and appealing to "soft" nationalists in Quebec. The difference has been so stark, in fact, that former right-wing allies are accusing him of selling out to the political left.

I guess I am one of the former "right-wing allies" because the writer quotes me quite a bit in the article.

Check it out.