Even as he slouches towards Conservative leadership Bethlehem, Peter MacKay is fighting a war most of us cannot see and none of us could ever hope to understand. I am here to tell the story of MacKay’s battle against a nemesis of his own creation. I seek to preserve some record of the terrible and historic struggle being waged in our very midst between Almost Certain For Reasons Nobody Can Quite Put Their Finger On Conservative Leader Peter MacKay and his nemesis, @PeterMacKay, his apparently sentient and rogue Twitter account.
On Feb. 1, @PeterMacKay up and sent out a tweet that included images of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in different yoga poses. The caption complained that “while running for leader of the Liberal Party, Trudeau’s campaign expensed $876.95 in yoga sessions and spa bills for Justin Trudeau. Liberals can’t be trusted.”
It is (it’s still up) a very silly tweet, as many were quick to point out. It’s hard to pass off $876.95 for some yoga classes and perhaps the odd massage or health club visit, seven years ago, as political dynamite. In fact, it would be charitable to believe that @PeterMacKay sincerely thought the sum itself would whip Canadians into a frenzy, but the sum itself wasn’t the point, of course.
The subtext of the tweet was painfully obvious: Trudeau’s not butch enough for what is essentially an only slightly glorified office job. Unlike Peter MacKay, who recently boasted to the National Post that he’d “rather fight” Trudeau, who famously boxes, “UFC rules. Or on the ice—no headgear, no gloves.”
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Trudeau’s first term was an unmitigated disaster in multiple ways. All that aside even turning our once respected country into the laughing stock of the international community wasn’t sufficient to motivate nearly 1/3 of eligible voters to rectify a huge mistake.
“Turnout for Canada’s 2019 general election was 65.95 per cent of eligible voters, not as high as in 2015 when Justin Trudeau first swept to power, but a strong turnout compared to some past elections.”
A strong turnout? With so much at stake! Shameful. IMO Peter McKay is NOT the solution to the political disaster our country currently finds itself in. He is just another symptom. Peter McKay (like Scheer) is NOT the type of politician that will (despite Trudeau’s disastrous in multiple ways 1st term) motivate the 34% of eligible voters who couldn’t be bothered to vote last time, to vote next time. IMO these 34% of eligible voters correctly see so little difference between the two major parties that come election day they figure why bother. And they are correct. The CPC has NOBODY waiting in the wings with the chemistry, the energy, the personality and frankly the courage to loudly and proudly boast to be a Canada first politician. Period.
So go ahead CPC, keep on scouring your political Jurassic Park for a new leader. Make Peter McKay the next ho hum, boring, afraid to take on the establishment CPC guru. He’s uninspiring. He’s boring. So guarantee that our once great nation will continue to swirl down the drain of progressivism, globalism and crippling debt. Guarantee that those 34%+ of fed up to here eligible voters will continue to stay home. The generational, content to grovel for the hand out rather than hand up Maritimes and their LPC indebted immigration invaded/dominated GTA allies will continue to march in lockstep.
This tail is going to continue to wag the dog until the CPC learns how to find its ass with both hands. Until they can find a true Canadian first patriot who represents all Canadians.