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National Post || Saturday » January 21 » 2006
Goodbye and good riddance
Andrew Coyne
National Post
Saturday, January 21, 2006
The Ceaucescu moment in Paul Martin's short, disgraceful career as prime minister, the instant it was clear the jig was well and truly up, occurred not this year but last; not during the long, slow humiliation of the present election campaign, but in his hour of maximum triumph, perhaps the finest achievement of his premiership: the luring of Belinda Stronach, by means of a Cabinet bauble or two, into the Liberal fold.
You remember: the press conference, a nervous Ms. Stronach, a beaming prime minister. Someone asks about the political impact of her defection, just days before that crucial vote of non-confidence (the one he'd promised to respect, as opposed to the several he'd ignored). Mr. Martin replies, briskly, as if announcing the time: This has nothing to do with politics ....
And every last person in the room laughed in his face.
Readers of this column will know that I have waffled on Mr. Martin over the years. I think we all did. I was never terribly keen on him, when virtually the entire press gallery thought he walked on water. But neither did I join in the instant chorus of abuse that descended on him in those first hesitant months as prime minister. I thought he deserved credit for licking the deficit, when others tried to minimize it, and I thought he deserved a chance to show whether he was "one of the good guys," even after his dissembling response to the Auditor-General's report that kicked off the sponsorship scandal.
So you will perhaps forgive me when I say that if this election has no other result, if it achieves no other end, but to send Mr. Martin far, far out to sea, it will be enough. Him, and the thugs in his entourage. Changing the government is just a bonus.
I used to look upon the defeat of the Liberals as a grim necessity. I used to believe that Mr. Martin should be held to account for failing to act before, during or after the fact, but that in essence he and his government would have to pay for the sins of his predecessor. Not even the serial fiascos that marked his time in office -- the health care giveaway, the equalization mess, the asymmetric federalism debacle, the missile defence fumble, the three budgets in two weeks, the attempted bribery of opposition MPs, the defiance of Parliament and of constitutional convention in the face of four consecutive non-confidence votes -- could make the defeat of his government more than a professional responsibility.
But the campaign that he and his minions have waged over the last eight weeks -- by turns empty, dishonest, hysterical, vicious, crude, demagogic, shrill, incoherent, divisive, xenophobic, hypocritical, not to say staggeringly incompetent -- makes his impending departure from the scene a positive delight. I am literally counting the hours.
There has never been a campaign to match it -- not even the loathsome campaign the same team mounted in 2004. John Turner's 1988 campaign, with its litany of the biblical horrors that free trade would bring in its wake, was as over the top -- but that was about an issue. If it conjured up extreme and absurd scenarios, they were at least attached to something the Tories had actually proposed. They did not consist, as in the present campaign, of simply fantasizing, with almost pornographic relish, of all the things they might do.
It will be recorded that in this election, the Martin campaign commissioned, produced and ran ads (at public expense) suggesting that his opponent was, inter alia, plotting with separatists to destroy the country, bankrolled by extremist elements of a foreign power, and in a glittering tour de force, bent on imposing martial law. ("In our cities.") It will further be recorded that when called out on that last bit of filth, Mr. Martin claimed -- without flinching at the utter implausibility of what he was saying -- that he was just making a point about logistics.
And, to our eternal credit, every last person in the country laughed in his face.
CODA: The most stinging indictment of Mr. Martin cannot come from my poor pen, but from his peers, old warhorses like John Crosbie and Ed Broadbent, who have seen elections come and go and been on both ends of a political punch. It is fair to say they are revolted by what they have witnessed. Here are the less scatological parts of Mr. Crosbie's assessment, as it appeared in this paper: "I was active in politics for 27 years, 10 as a provincial elected member and 17 as a federally elected member, and I've been interested and involved in it all my life. This is certainly the worst behaviour I have seen of any party leader."
As for Mr. Broadbent, here he is in his farewell press conference: "The Liberal campaign has been deeply offensive. Offensive to women, offensive to workers, offensive to members of the armed forces, and offensive to all Canadians."
That's a Tory and a New Democrat. I was hoping to find a Liberal, but I guess it will have to wait until after the election.
© National Post 2006
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905belt
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| Posted: 01/ 21/ 06 10:56 am Post subject: Re: Coyne's scathing attack on Martin!!!! (Beautiful) |
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| EdS wrote: | National Post || Saturday » January 21 » 2006
Goodbye and good riddance
Andrew Coyne
National Post
Saturday, January 21, 2006
The Ceaucescu moment in Paul Martin's short, disgraceful career as prime minister, the instant it was clear the jig was well and truly up, occurred not this year but last; not during the long, slow humiliation of the present election campaign, but in his hour of maximum triumph, perhaps the finest achievement of his premiership: the luring of Belinda Stronach, by means of a Cabinet bauble or two, into the Liberal fold.
You remember: the press conference, a nervous Ms. Stronach, a beaming prime minister. Someone asks about the political impact of her defection, just days before that crucial vote of non-confidence (the one he'd promised to respect, as opposed to the several he'd ignored). Mr. Martin replies, briskly, as if announcing the time: This has nothing to do with politics ....
And every last person in the room laughed in his face.
Readers of this column will know that I have waffled on Mr. Martin over the years. I think we all did. I was never terribly keen on him, when virtually the entire press gallery thought he walked on water. But neither did I join in the instant chorus of abuse that descended on him in those first hesitant months as prime minister. I thought he deserved credit for licking the deficit, when others tried to minimize it, and I thought he deserved a chance to show whether he was "one of the good guys," even after his dissembling response to the Auditor-General's report that kicked off the sponsorship scandal.
So you will perhaps forgive me when I say that if this election has no other result, if it achieves no other end, but to send Mr. Martin far, far out to sea, it will be enough. Him, and the thugs in his entourage. Changing the government is just a bonus.
I used to look upon the defeat of the Liberals as a grim necessity. I used to believe that Mr. Martin should be held to account for failing to act before, during or after the fact, but that in essence he and his government would have to pay for the sins of his predecessor. Not even the serial fiascos that marked his time in office -- the health care giveaway, the equalization mess, the asymmetric federalism debacle, the missile defence fumble, the three budgets in two weeks, the attempted bribery of opposition MPs, the defiance of Parliament and of constitutional convention in the face of four consecutive non-confidence votes -- could make the defeat of his government more than a professional responsibility.
But the campaign that he and his minions have waged over the last eight weeks -- by turns empty, dishonest, hysterical, vicious, crude, demagogic, shrill, incoherent, divisive, xenophobic, hypocritical, not to say staggeringly incompetent -- makes his impending departure from the scene a positive delight. I am literally counting the hours.
There has never been a campaign to match it -- not even the loathsome campaign the same team mounted in 2004. John Turner's 1988 campaign, with its litany of the biblical horrors that free trade would bring in its wake, was as over the top -- but that was about an issue. If it conjured up extreme and absurd scenarios, they were at least attached to something the Tories had actually proposed. They did not consist, as in the present campaign, of simply fantasizing, with almost pornographic relish, of all the things they might do.
It will be recorded that in this election, the Martin campaign commissioned, produced and ran ads (at public expense) suggesting that his opponent was, inter alia, plotting with separatists to destroy the country, bankrolled by extremist elements of a foreign power, and in a glittering tour de force, bent on imposing martial law. ("In our cities.") It will further be recorded that when called out on that last bit of filth, Mr. Martin claimed -- without flinching at the utter implausibility of what he was saying -- that he was just making a point about logistics.
And, to our eternal credit, every last person in the country laughed in his face.
CODA: The most stinging indictment of Mr. Martin cannot come from my poor pen, but from his peers, old warhorses like John Crosbie and Ed Broadbent, who have seen elections come and go and been on both ends of a political punch. It is fair to say they are revolted by what they have witnessed. Here are the less scatological parts of Mr. Crosbie's assessment, as it appeared in this paper: "I was active in politics for 27 years, 10 as a provincial elected member and 17 as a federally elected member, and I've been interested and involved in it all my life. This is certainly the worst behaviour I have seen of any party leader."
As for Mr. Broadbent, here he is in his farewell press conference: "The Liberal campaign has been deeply offensive. Offensive to women, offensive to workers, offensive to members of the armed forces, and offensive to all Canadians."
That's a Tory and a New Democrat. I was hoping to find a Liberal, but I guess it will have to wait until after the election.
© National Post 2006
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What a scathing indictment! I thinks this quote sums it up.
"Him, and the thugs in his entourage"
Hope Martin chokes on his Viagara on the way out.
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| Chocolate Tennis Balls Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Total posts: 2220 Location: Niagara Falls Gender: Male
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Well said indeed Coyne. I saw him on the National last night, and Manfridge asked him what opportunities any political leader might have missed in this campaign. Coyne's answer was that it was Martin who missed the opportunity to lose with class.
Oh how cruel fate can be, Mr. Martin traded every principle he had left to be PM for a year and a half. Now he gets to sail off into a sea of bitter regret having betrayed his Catholic religion, and his father's principles (Paul Martin Sr. refused a cabinet post in Trudeau's government because he couldn't support abortion). What a sad, sad man. I wouldn't want to be Mrs. Martin comes Tuesday morning. |
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905belt
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| Chocolate Tennis Balls wrote: | Well said indeed Coyne. I saw him on the National last night, and Manfridge asked him what opportunities any political leader might have missed in this campaign. Coyne's answer was that it was Martin who missed the opportunity to lose with class.
Oh how cruel fate can be, Mr. Martin traded every principle he had left to be PM for a year and a half. Now he gets to sail off into a sea of bitter regret having betrayed his Catholic religion, and his father's principles (Paul Martin Sr. refused a cabinet post in Trudeau's government because he couldn't support abortion). What a sad, sad man. I wouldn't want to be Mrs. Martin comes Tuesday morning. |
Not an ounce of sympathy for this guy. He is a poor excuse for a Catholic & human being. HE IS BAG OF $HIT! Bye Bye CRIMINAL!
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| Chocolate Tennis Balls Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Total posts: 2220 Location: Niagara Falls Gender: Male
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And another thing...there's a detail in this campaign that really struck me: on Paul Martin's campaign bus, and on his campaign jet are the words:
'Paul Martin's Liberals'.
The words, 'Paul Martin' are in larger print.
Think about it for a second, what kind of a leader would put his own name ahead of his party? Paul Martin is all about Paul Martin- all for himself. Liberals have learned that he's not a team player, he's about advancing his own ambition. I think that the painting on the campaign bus was a little detail that caught my eye, but that summed up the man that is Paul Martin perfectly. |
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EdS
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| 905belt wrote: | | Not an ounce of sympathy for this guy. He is a poor excuse for a Catholic & human being. HE IS BAG OF $HIT! Bye Bye CRIMINAL! |
He really, really is. He is a vile human being. A true liberal, in other words. Lacking any decency, or core values.
He is true scum.
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905belt
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| Chocolate Tennis Balls wrote: | And another thing...there's a detail in this campaign that really struck me: on Paul Martin's campaign bus, and on his campaign jet are the words:
'Paul Martin's Liberals'.
The words, 'Paul Martin' are in larger print.
Think about it for a second, what kind of a leader would put his own name ahead of his party? Paul Martin is all about Paul Martin- all for himself. Liberals have learned that he's not a team player, he's about advancing his own ambition. I think that the painting on the campaign bus was a little detail that caught my eye, but that summed up the man that is Paul Martin perfectly. |
That's BIG AMEN!  |
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Paul Martin has run the Liberal 'brand' into the ground. History will judge him harshly, and it'll all be due to his disgusting obsession to hold on to power by all means necessary.
I heart Coyne. He pretty much nailed it.
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905belt
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" History will judge him harshly" AND SO IT SHOULD!
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| Chocolate Tennis Balls Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Total posts: 2220 Location: Niagara Falls Gender: Male
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Eerily similar to John Turner- another Catholic who sold out his principles for his political ambition, and not unlike Ernie Eves who turned on Mike Harris as soon as he took over as premier. Ernie was arrogant too, believing that there could be no way that Dalton McGuinty could actually beat him, and underestimated him. Martin underestimated Harper big time, and instead, he overestimated Jack Layton- Martin shifted Left when he really should have shifted Right. But he left his Right flank open figuring that Harper was such a stiff that he'd destroy himself.
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Wow, if only the rest of the "meda" in this country could be so honest.
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Thank you for writing this, Mr. Coyne. It needed to be said.
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| Chocolate Tennis Balls wrote: | Well said indeed Coyne. I saw him on the National last night, and Manfridge asked him what opportunities any political leader might have missed in this campaign. Coyne's answer was that it was Martin who missed the opportunity to lose with class.
Oh how cruel fate can be, Mr. Martin traded every principle he had left to be PM for a year and a half. Now he gets to sail off into a sea of bitter regret having betrayed his Catholic religion, and his father's principles (Paul Martin Sr. refused a cabinet post in Trudeau's government because he couldn't support abortion). What a sad, sad man. I wouldn't want to be Mrs. Martin comes Tuesday morning. |
When Mrs Martins suitcase is packed and she is heading in a different direction, maybe Pauliewog can move onto a grate in downtown Toronto and Jack and Mayor Miller can look after him...
But then again the homeless probably don't want him either
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| carfix2000ca wrote: | | Chocolate Tennis Balls wrote: | Well said indeed Coyne. I saw him on the National last night, and Manfridge asked him what opportunities any political leader might have missed in this campaign. Coyne's answer was that it was Martin who missed the opportunity to lose with class.
Oh how cruel fate can be, Mr. Martin traded every principle he had left to be PM for a year and a half. Now he gets to sail off into a sea of bitter regret having betrayed his Catholic religion, and his father's principles (Paul Martin Sr. refused a cabinet post in Trudeau's government because he couldn't support abortion). What a sad, sad man. I wouldn't want to be Mrs. Martin comes Tuesday morning. |
When Mrs Martins suitcase is packed and she is heading in a different direction, maybe Pauliewog can move onto a grate in downtown Toronto and Jack and Mayor Miller can look after him...
But then again the homeless probably don't want him either |
The City Of Toronto will even supply him with a crack kit & a safe injection site. 
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Well said Mr. Coyne.
Why is it that we never hear about Mrs. Martin?
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