Something About Belinda Stronach

This morning I was reading an article about Belinda Stronach on the CTV website. She sais that even if she looses her seat in the election she will continue in politics. She then went on to criticize her former party:

Stronach criticized her former Conservative caucus colleagues, calling them
inexperienced. She also accused the Conservative Party of telling people what
they want to hear to win votes.

Anyone that can read those two sentences without laughing or, at the least rolling their eyes doesn't know anything about Stronach or politics. Inexperienced? Stronach went from being CEO of her daddies multi-billion dollar company to running for the leadership of a political party. When daddies princess lost her bid, she decided to stick it out and try to get a seat in government. She succeeded under the Conservative flag and, a year later, ditched them for the Liberal party. She has been in Ottawa for a year and a half. This, my friends, is inexperience. Of anyone in Ottawa she is probably the most inexperienced of them all.

Secondly, she said that the Conservatives are telling people what they want to hear to win votes. Imagine that. Every political party does that, but it's her Liberals that do it the most. The day after the election was called Martin flew out to the Maritimes. It's exactly the same thing he did when the last election was called, and it's what Chretien did when he called his elections. They always head out east with a big bag of cash and start promising it to people. There is a catch: the Liberals must win the election for them to get the money. Money for fisheries, money for the unemployed, money for this, money for that. If the Liberals were doing the job they should be doing they shouldn't have to promise money to anyone: the people should already have it! If Martin was confident at all in his party he should simply say "Hey, we've been doing a good job for the past 12 years, we'll keep doing a good job!" Of course, this is not the case. The Liberals have been promising changes throughout the entire campaign and, recently, even stole the "Hero Fund" idea from the NDP platform. A governing party shouldn't have to change anything to gain re-election.

As for Stronach, I would urge everyone in Newmarket-Aurora to boot this chick out. In the last election you voted Conservative, and she just happened to be the candidate in that riding. She had no right to change parties without first consulting her constituents.