November 6, 2024
The Conservatives' biggest wounds are self-inflicted
So-called “progressive” Red Tories, knowing the easiest way to get sympathetic media coverage and nodding approval from the Liberals that they seem to perpetually crave, love to publicly attack “bad Tories” as opposed to “thoughtful Tories” like themselves.
So-called “progressive” Red Tories, knowing the easiest way to get sympathetic media coverage and nodding approval from the Liberals that they seem to perpetually crave, love to publicly attack “bad Tories” as opposed to “thoughtful Tories” like themselves.

On a day when they should have been hammering Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals on the scarcity of vaccines delivered to Canada, Erin O’Toole and the Conservatives were knifing themselves in the stomach tossing Conservative MP Derek Sloan from their caucus.

The ostensible reason was that Sloan unknowingly accepted a $131 donation from white supremacist Paul Fromm during the Conservative leadership race last August, in which Sloan finished in fourth and last place.

How this is different from the Conservatives unknowingly granting Fromm membership in the Conservative Party, or Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government unknowingly giving two of Fromm’s organizations COVID-19 relief money, is unclear.

Also unclear is why O’Toole chose this purported outrage by Sloan to kickstart the process to dump him from caucus, in light of previously defending Sloan’s right to express controversial views on homosexuality and the competence of Canada’s chief public health officer, during the pandemic.

The Conservative argument for tossing Sloan is that if they had allowed him to stay, Trudeau and the Liberals would have beaten them over the head with it in the next election, portraying them as the intellectual heirs of the rioters in the U.S. Capitol.

Conservatives are perpetually terrified of being portrayed as Trump wannabes, white supremacists and conspiracy theorists by the Liberals.

[Interesting Read]

See Also:

(1) $131 Sloan donation leak was an inside job – Conservative MPs tell us so

(2) Booting Sloan was just a start. O’Toole must get serious about distancing party from unsavoury elements (Jack: So called ‘wisdom’ from the peanut gallery.)

(3) With Sloan’s expulsion, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole hopes to turn the page (Jack: Good luck with that one.)

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