If I had to choose or predict...
I was thinking a few days ago about which prominent Canadian Conservative blogger could possibly, one day, become an actual politician. Or, to be more specific, someone who could hypothetically become the Prime Minister of Canada.
Many bloggers are automatically disqualified because they might not be bilingual, but most of them are disqualified because they're too politically incorrect. Bloggers are usually pretty opinionated, and very few of them are moderate enough to withstand the eastern media's intense scrutiny. There's probably a whole bunch of bloggers who could develop into the stereotype of the Karl Rove-like backroom political powerbroker, but very few would actually be capable enough of attaining elected office.
Common sense immediately narrows down the field significantly. And after a careful examination of most Canadian Conservative bloggers, I'd nominate Laurent Moss from Le Blog De Polyscopique for Prime Minister of Canada (sometime in the future, of course).
Now I'm not saying he should be Prime Minister, since I've never met him, nor do I know what he looks like, nor do I know whether he has any charisma whatsoever, however, judging from his writings, Laurent is a fluently bilingual, genuinely conservative/libertarian francophone from Montreal and that in itself makes him a great candidate, if I had to predict or choose a blogger who could ultimately assume the most powerful office in the country.
Let me go over his credentials:
- He's a Francophone Quebecer, probably a Roman Catholic too. This should be inconsequential, but I'm speaking in practical terms. No non-catholic has been elected Prime Minister since Pearson and only Joe Clark's short minority of 1979 demonstrated a non-Quebecer assuming political power since before Trudeau.
- He's strongly federalist, yet smart enough to realize that being a federalist doesn't neccesarily mean that he has to be a liberal.
- He's genuinely conservative on most issues. He writes against high government spending, he's not neccesarily pro-American, but he's anti-anti-American, he's strongly supportive of free speech (CHOI FM), and with every major issue, he seems to lean towards the conservative/libertarian position.
- He declares himself to be pro-choice, but he's demonstrated that he's tolerant of pro-life views, he considers them to be wrongly villainized, and he seems to genuinely fit into the "society is better when abortion is rare" category of people, who would probably be against late-term abortions, partial birth abortions, etc. His views put him with the majority of Canadians, yet they allow him to seem conservative enough to appeal to conservatives as well.
- He's a blogger. I'm sure that must mean something. Yet he very rarely blogs anymore. Meaning he has a life outside his computer! Another point for him.
- His posts are very informed, and very well supported. He's a smart guy with well thought out positions on a wide array of issues related to public policy.
- He's a member of the Western Standard group blog, meaning that he's at least in touch with the views of the Reform/Alliance crowd (that sounds like a put down, but it's not) that dominate the Western Standard.
I could probably go on with a few more points, but I think I just realized that this post is pretty ridiculous... ah well.
UPDATE: After posting this I just noticed that Laurent wrote an insightful post earlier today at the Shotgun about the possibly colliding worlds for supporters of Gay Rights and Abortion.
Many bloggers are automatically disqualified because they might not be bilingual, but most of them are disqualified because they're too politically incorrect. Bloggers are usually pretty opinionated, and very few of them are moderate enough to withstand the eastern media's intense scrutiny. There's probably a whole bunch of bloggers who could develop into the stereotype of the Karl Rove-like backroom political powerbroker, but very few would actually be capable enough of attaining elected office.
Common sense immediately narrows down the field significantly. And after a careful examination of most Canadian Conservative bloggers, I'd nominate Laurent Moss from Le Blog De Polyscopique for Prime Minister of Canada (sometime in the future, of course).
Now I'm not saying he should be Prime Minister, since I've never met him, nor do I know what he looks like, nor do I know whether he has any charisma whatsoever, however, judging from his writings, Laurent is a fluently bilingual, genuinely conservative/libertarian francophone from Montreal and that in itself makes him a great candidate, if I had to predict or choose a blogger who could ultimately assume the most powerful office in the country.
Let me go over his credentials:
- He's a Francophone Quebecer, probably a Roman Catholic too. This should be inconsequential, but I'm speaking in practical terms. No non-catholic has been elected Prime Minister since Pearson and only Joe Clark's short minority of 1979 demonstrated a non-Quebecer assuming political power since before Trudeau.
- He's strongly federalist, yet smart enough to realize that being a federalist doesn't neccesarily mean that he has to be a liberal.
- He's genuinely conservative on most issues. He writes against high government spending, he's not neccesarily pro-American, but he's anti-anti-American, he's strongly supportive of free speech (CHOI FM), and with every major issue, he seems to lean towards the conservative/libertarian position.
- He declares himself to be pro-choice, but he's demonstrated that he's tolerant of pro-life views, he considers them to be wrongly villainized, and he seems to genuinely fit into the "society is better when abortion is rare" category of people, who would probably be against late-term abortions, partial birth abortions, etc. His views put him with the majority of Canadians, yet they allow him to seem conservative enough to appeal to conservatives as well.
- He's a blogger. I'm sure that must mean something. Yet he very rarely blogs anymore. Meaning he has a life outside his computer! Another point for him.
- His posts are very informed, and very well supported. He's a smart guy with well thought out positions on a wide array of issues related to public policy.
- He's a member of the Western Standard group blog, meaning that he's at least in touch with the views of the Reform/Alliance crowd (that sounds like a put down, but it's not) that dominate the Western Standard.
I could probably go on with a few more points, but I think I just realized that this post is pretty ridiculous... ah well.
UPDATE: After posting this I just noticed that Laurent wrote an insightful post earlier today at the Shotgun about the possibly colliding worlds for supporters of Gay Rights and Abortion.
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