People should read this before casting their votes. Scarry!
WASHINGTON, ST. JOHN'S, MISSISSAUGA -- Right-wing groups in the United States have been urged to avoid crowing about the likelihood of a Conservative victory in Monday's election for fear of scaring off potential voters, according to a leaked e-mail written by the leader of a prominent American conservative group.
"Canadian voters have been led to believe that American conservatives are scary and if the Conservative Party can be linked with us, they can perhaps diminish a Conservative victory," Paul Weyrich, president of the Washington-based Free Congress Foundation, wrote Thursday in an e-mail forwarded to other conservative leaders.
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper was also accused yesterday of trying to muzzle his socially conservative candidates in the final days of a campaign in which he has worked hard to make Canadians feel comfortable with him and his policies.
"Candidates who [made] Canadians so uncomfortable with the Conservatives in the last election . . . they haven't gone; they're still there. They're just in hiding," Liberal Leader Paul Martin said at a rally in St. John's. "I don't know where they are. Maybe they're all in some kind of a safe house, biding their time, watching Jeopardy!"
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Mr. Weyrich said in his e-mail that he had been called by Gerald Chipeur, a Calgary lawyer and outspoken backer of socially conservative causes, who said that Liberal-leaning news media in Canada were likely to phone U.S. right-wingers "in the hopes that someone will inadvertently say something that can be hung around the Conservatives."
Mr. Weyrich suggested to recipients of his message that "if the Canadian media calls, please do not be interviewed until Monday evening, at which point hopefully there will be reason to celebrate."
Mr. Weyrich, a veteran spokesman for the U.S. right, said in an interview he could not "verify" the e-mail. When it was suggested this was a non-denial denial, Mr. Weyrich snapped, "You can make of it whatever you wish."
Contacted in Calgary, Mr. Chipeur refused to comment on his contacts with Mr. Weyrich and hung up the phone.
Mr. Martin pointed to Cheryl Gallant, Rob Anders, Rob Merrifield and Harold Albrecht as Tory candidates whose views have been absent during the campaign. He noted that Mr. Albrecht, an outspoken critic of same-sex marriage, was removed from the sight of journalists at a Conservative event in Kitchener, Ont., on Thursday and ushered into a banquet-hall kitchen where organizers insisted he was in a meeting.
Gay-rights groups have complained for several weeks that new Conservative candidates who have previously opposed same-sex marriage have been prevented from saying so in public and from revealing their views on their websites.
Mr. Harper ducked the issue yesterday. "Our candidates are campaigning in their ridings, they are going door to door, they are working very hard talking to local media and I am very pleased with their efforts."
Mr. Harper's argument was not helped by reports that he met secretly last Saturday with Ms. Gallant and a small group of her supporters in the Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke riding. Ms. Gallant's candid statements on social issues include her 2004 comparison of abortion with beheadings by Islamic terrorists.
The meeting, which was reported by The Eganville Leader newspaper, took place in Cobden, Ont., after the Conservative Leader decided to take a bus rather than fly between North Bay, Ont., and Ottawa.
Media were put on a separate bus, which did not stop for the get-together with Ms. Gallant and was never told about it.
Mr. Weyrich's e-mail was sent to an assistant who was asked to forward it to other right-wing groups. It made its way through two e-mail groups of right-wing sympathizers before landing at the New York Observer, which published it on its website.
Mr. Chipeur, a leader in the fight against same-sex marriage, backed Mr. Harper's 2004 leadership campaign and is Alberta chair of Republicans Abroad, a group that promotes the party among U.S. expatriates. Mr. Chipeur is a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen and attended the 2004 Republican national convention in New York.
Mr. Weyrich, 61, is a long-time conservative activist and commentator. In a column written in 2004, he argued that free speech was dead north of the border because it was "no longer permissible in Canada to preach that homosexuality is a deviant lifestyle. That is now hate speech. A minister or priest risks jail by preaching what is in the Scriptures."
"The culture has really collapsed there as it is about to collapse here," he warned, saying that if a liberal did not win the 2004 presidential election, as was the case, it could come in 2008.
yes its all makes perfect sence,comments 'TWISTED & TURNED INSIDE OUT' by 'NEO-LEFT-WINGERS','ANTI-AMERICANS' & desperate 'LIBERALS' for the soul purpose to 'SCARE' ( BOO! ) people away from voting conservative. if stephen harper & the conservative party was that 'LOW' im sure they would do the very same 'BUT' as we have seen this election from the both mr.harper & his party they have run a perfect 'POSITIVE' & 'POLICY' based campaign & dont have to 'STOOP' to fear & smear to 'WIN'.
Please vote on monday based on 'FACTS' & not 'FICTION'.
Wake up and smell the coffee 12:37 Do you think that the Liberals would dare print the name of Paul Weyrich and risk having law suits against them. You must be living in another world or a true core Conservative that can't see the difference. I voted NDP the last election but am voting Liberal this time just because I am convinced that this man wants to give the appearance that he is perfect and he is the only one we should vote for. Those people scare me. Nobody is perfect.
Anybody can tell their candidates to shut up and not talk and then spout off the party line. That in itself is a reason to distrust a party that spouts off about 'free votes', and certainly is no reason to call a campaign 'perfect'. The idea that keeping candidates with an opinion from voicing those opinions is a the mark of a good campaign in a democratic country is pretty scary.
This stuff is all old news, christian coalitions have funded canadian conservatives for years, and spent massive amounts of money lobbying during the same sex marriage debate.
Notice how whenever anybody says something bad about the conservatives it is called 'negative ads', while they do the same about Paul Martin and it's 'positive policy'. To be honest, what I find far more scary than the conservative leaders is conservative followers. When you listen to them you get the feeling this is a war or something and they're getting ready to hand out the brown shirts.
ya like the BILLIONS of people who belive in triditional marriage,the bible & the church unlike yourself.
its nothing more then liberal propaganda. civil unions give EVERYTHING that marriage does except it does not trample all over the bible,the church & BILLIONS of peoples beliefs like the liberals have done.
elton john for example just married his long time canadian friend,guess what? 'civil union',& they looked perfectly happy to me & I wish them all the best.
marriage=the holy church=the holy bible=god=its just WRONG. you are re-writing the bible,the word of god to be politically correct?!
Yeah, screw political correctness. Who the *&^% cares what the bible says? It's a lousy book that even most 'christians' have never even read. Marriage is in tons of cultures, certainly not just christian, and they have no claim to it. Who cares if they recognize polygamy? Give them equal rights to. If a man is supporting lots of wives he SHOULD get a break on his taxes.
If you happen to be sexually attracted to farm animals that's YOUR business. For those of us 'humans' that's not an issue, since animals are 'property' you can't marry property any more than you can ask to marry a table lamp. You may think the argument stretches to absurdity, but that's just your mind.
if you dont belive in a god that is your business. i do & i am christan so keep your sickfxxk self out of my church.
if you condone two man fxxking each other up the arse the night b4 getting married in "HOLY matrimony" in a HOLY church by a socalled priest then you are wrong.
if you dont belive in a god or the bible or every other religion that says its wrong then i suggets you build your own church & fxxk farm animals all night long. LOL!
I do not want to get involved in the religious debate as it is too emotional for some but as far as Harper's leadership is concerned it is not there. He is promising Quebec so much to win elections. He will not even use word 'Canada' in his campaign in Quebic and he said it was for strategic reasons. If his convictions are so shaky on unity of the country then can you trust him on anything else. Wake up NB and wake up Canada. One Dubbya is enough in this world and we do not want another puppy version of it.
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Looks like he is green behind the ears. Good one.
Looks like he is green behind the ears. Good one.
People should read this before casting their votes. Scarry!
WASHINGTON, ST. JOHN'S, MISSISSAUGA -- Right-wing groups in the United States have been urged to avoid crowing about the likelihood of a Conservative victory in Monday's election for fear of scaring off potential voters, according to a leaked e-mail written by the leader of a prominent American conservative group.
"Canadian voters have been led to believe that American conservatives are scary and if the Conservative Party can be linked with us, they can perhaps diminish a Conservative victory," Paul Weyrich, president of the Washington-based Free Congress Foundation, wrote Thursday in an e-mail forwarded to other conservative leaders.
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper was also accused yesterday of trying to muzzle his socially conservative candidates in the final days of a campaign in which he has worked hard to make Canadians feel comfortable with him and his policies.
"Candidates who [made] Canadians so uncomfortable with the Conservatives in the last election . . . they haven't gone; they're still there. They're just in hiding," Liberal Leader Paul Martin said at a rally in St. John's. "I don't know where they are. Maybe they're all in some kind of a safe house, biding their time, watching Jeopardy!"
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Mr. Weyrich said in his e-mail that he had been called by Gerald Chipeur, a Calgary lawyer and outspoken backer of socially conservative causes, who said that Liberal-leaning news media in Canada were likely to phone U.S. right-wingers "in the hopes that someone will inadvertently say something that can be hung around the Conservatives."
Mr. Weyrich suggested to recipients of his message that "if the Canadian media calls, please do not be interviewed until Monday evening, at which point hopefully there will be reason to celebrate."
Mr. Weyrich, a veteran spokesman for the U.S. right, said in an interview he could not "verify" the e-mail. When it was suggested this was a non-denial denial, Mr. Weyrich snapped, "You can make of it whatever you wish."
Contacted in Calgary, Mr. Chipeur refused to comment on his contacts with Mr. Weyrich and hung up the phone.
Mr. Martin pointed to Cheryl Gallant, Rob Anders, Rob Merrifield and Harold Albrecht as Tory candidates whose views have been absent during the campaign. He noted that Mr. Albrecht, an outspoken critic of same-sex marriage, was removed from the sight of journalists at a Conservative event in Kitchener, Ont., on Thursday and ushered into a banquet-hall kitchen where organizers insisted he was in a meeting.
Gay-rights groups have complained for several weeks that new Conservative candidates who have previously opposed same-sex marriage have been prevented from saying so in public and from revealing their views on their websites.
Mr. Harper ducked the issue yesterday. "Our candidates are campaigning in their ridings, they are going door to door, they are working very hard talking to local media and I am very pleased with their efforts."
Mr. Harper's argument was not helped by reports that he met secretly last Saturday with Ms. Gallant and a small group of her supporters in the Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke riding. Ms. Gallant's candid statements on social issues include her 2004 comparison of abortion with beheadings by Islamic terrorists.
The meeting, which was reported by The Eganville Leader newspaper, took place in Cobden, Ont., after the Conservative Leader decided to take a bus rather than fly between North Bay, Ont., and Ottawa.
Media were put on a separate bus, which did not stop for the get-together with Ms. Gallant and was never told about it.
Mr. Weyrich's e-mail was sent to an assistant who was asked to forward it to other right-wing groups. It made its way through two e-mail groups of right-wing sympathizers before landing at the New York Observer, which published it on its website.
Mr. Chipeur, a leader in the fight against same-sex marriage, backed Mr. Harper's 2004 leadership campaign and is Alberta chair of Republicans Abroad, a group that promotes the party among U.S. expatriates. Mr. Chipeur is a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen and attended the 2004 Republican national convention in New York.
Mr. Weyrich, 61, is a long-time conservative activist and commentator. In a column written in 2004, he argued that free speech was dead north of the border because it was "no longer permissible in Canada to preach that homosexuality is a deviant lifestyle. That is now hate speech. A minister or priest risks jail by preaching what is in the Scriptures."
"The culture has really collapsed there as it is about to collapse here," he warned, saying that if a liberal did not win the 2004 presidential election, as was the case, it could come in 2008.
@12:37pm-
yes its all makes perfect sence,comments 'TWISTED & TURNED INSIDE OUT' by 'NEO-LEFT-WINGERS','ANTI-AMERICANS' & desperate 'LIBERALS' for the soul purpose to 'SCARE' ( BOO! ) people away from voting conservative. if stephen harper & the conservative party was that 'LOW' im sure they would do the very same 'BUT' as we have seen this election from the both mr.harper & his party they have run a perfect 'POSITIVE' & 'POLICY' based campaign & dont have to 'STOOP' to fear & smear to 'WIN'.
Please vote on monday based on 'FACTS' & not 'FICTION'.
TY. :-)
Wake up and smell the coffee 12:37
Do you think that the Liberals would dare print the name of Paul Weyrich and risk having law suits against them. You must be living in another world or a true core Conservative that can't see the difference. I voted NDP the last election but am voting Liberal this time just because I am convinced that this man wants to give the appearance that he is perfect and he is the only one we should vote for. Those people scare me. Nobody is perfect.
Anybody can tell their candidates to shut up and not talk and then spout off the party line. That in itself is a reason to distrust a party that spouts off about 'free votes', and certainly is no reason to call a campaign 'perfect'. The idea that keeping candidates with an opinion from voicing those opinions is a the mark of a good campaign in a democratic country is pretty scary.
This stuff is all old news, christian coalitions have funded canadian conservatives for years, and spent massive amounts of money lobbying during the same sex marriage debate.
Notice how whenever anybody says something bad about the conservatives it is called 'negative ads', while they do the same about Paul Martin and it's 'positive policy'. To be honest, what I find far more scary than the conservative leaders is conservative followers. When you listen to them you get the feeling this is a war or something and they're getting ready to hand out the brown shirts.
Stephen Harper should thank Bernard Lord for his help. A true kiss of death if there was any.
@4:16pm-
I happen to be a christan,are you saying you (liberals) have something against christans?!
you've destroyed marriage & the church & now if paul martin has his way polygamy is next,then FARM ANIMALS?!.
the liberal party should change their name to the ANTI-christ party IMO.
now thats "SCARRY!" IMO. :-(
What Harper intends to do? His caucus was scary to start with. Wait after the election. It is intolerance of others which is dangerous.
@7:47pm-
ya like the BILLIONS of people who belive in triditional marriage,the bible & the church unlike yourself.
its nothing more then liberal propaganda. civil unions give EVERYTHING that marriage does except it does not trample all over the bible,the church & BILLIONS of peoples beliefs like the liberals have done.
elton john for example just married his long time canadian friend,guess what? 'civil union',& they looked perfectly happy to me & I wish them all the best.
marriage=the holy church=the holy bible=god=its just WRONG. you are re-writing the bible,the word of god to be politically correct?!
screw political correctness if thats the case.
The fact is that Harper is not ready to be Prime Minister. The fiction is that you think he is.
Yeah, screw political correctness. Who the *&^% cares what the bible says? It's a lousy book that even most 'christians' have never even read. Marriage is in tons of cultures, certainly not just christian, and they have no claim to it. Who cares if they recognize polygamy? Give them equal rights to. If a man is supporting lots of wives he SHOULD get a break on his taxes.
If you happen to be sexually attracted to farm animals that's YOUR business. For those of us 'humans' that's not an issue, since animals are 'property' you can't marry property any more than you can ask to marry a table lamp. You may think the argument stretches to absurdity, but that's just your mind.
@9:50pm-
if you dont belive in a god that is your business. i do & i am christan so keep your sickfxxk self out of my church.
if you condone two man fxxking each other up the arse the night b4 getting married in "HOLY matrimony" in a HOLY church by a socalled priest then you are wrong.
if you dont belive in a god or the bible or every other religion that says its wrong then i suggets you build your own church & fxxk farm animals all night long. LOL!
I do not want to get involved in the religious debate as it is too emotional for some but as far as Harper's leadership is concerned it is not there. He is promising Quebec so much to win elections. He will not even use word 'Canada' in his campaign in Quebic and he said it was for strategic reasons. If his convictions are so shaky on unity of the country then can you trust him on anything else. Wake up NB and wake up Canada. One Dubbya is enough in this world and we do not want another puppy version of it.
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