The Liberal Leadership Campaign

Mark Steyn just released a new article in the Western Standard. It is most hilarious! One of the best parts was this paragraph:

Technically, it's grossly unfair for leftie whiners suddenly to see our chaps in the Hindu Kush as part of some Harperite warmongering to curry favour with the lunatic Texan cowboy down south. After all, it was the Grits who signed us up for this, and quite a while ago. But the then government did it out of their usually finely calibrated cynicism: they sent troops to Afghanistan in order not to have to send them to Iraq, etc. It was a necessary manoeuvre in order to maintain the fiction that Liberal Canada was engaged with the world, albeit not too engaged. But, if M. Chrétien or Mr. Martin ever gave any we-won't-come-back-till-it's-over-over-there big stirring speech on the Afghan mission it must have been to a small room in Iqaluit, and during a CBC strike. It was Mr. Harper who made Afghanistan a cause, and one in the national interest rather than as some desultory multilateral peacekeepy tagalong. This prime minister believes in it; for his predecessors, it was just the usual artful triangulation.

It's funny, when I ask Liberal supporters why they vote for the party they do, the most common response is: "Because I believe in the Canadian values the Liberal party stands for." I have to hold back from laughing out loud because that's like saying, "I love the fresh air one gets when thrown out into the vacuum of outer space."