The obvious

'The Globe and Mail' and 'Calgary Herald' are chock-a-block full of stories about what's wrong with Erin O'Toole and the Conservatives.  They even commissioned some kind of inquiry into what went wrong in the last election and what's still going wrong.  

I can tell you right now:  Erin O'Toole.

Frankly and cruelly, it starts with his first name.  "Erin" is not a man's name, in my view; after that, it's downhill all the way.  Hard to believe, but he is actually younger than Trudeau -- looks like he could be the latter's uncle.  Then we move onto that blue suit and tie he wears ALL THE TIME.  Then we have his flip-flopping.  Then we have the fact that he's over-coached.  Well, he has to be because he is not a natural leader.  And while I'm at it, why do political leaders have to have their wives and kids draped all over them in photos?  The days when "the wife" had to be trotted out to attract the female vote are long gone.  Women vote -- or don't -- for the leader and in Erin's case his wife is not an asset, in my never-to-be-humble opinion.  (At the risk of attracting more "fat shaming" labels, I posit that they both need to lose a few pounds.)  But back to attracting women, it's insulting to think they will only relate to wives.  I mean, how many mothers are from in-tact families these days?  

(Relevant note:  I was interviewed for the position of the Head of the Secretariat on the Status of Women way back when, but didn't get the job because I said women of all kinds had to be represented -- such as the single mother cashier at Walmart, or someone on welfare -- not just "smarty-pants, liberated" university grads.  But I digress......)

The Conservatives need to quit navel-gazing and dump O'Toole before it's too late and Trudeau gets in with a -- G-d forbid -- majority!  Worse still, he steps aside and Freeland gets it!@%^$%^@#$!!!  This is highly likely because the polls are now putting her ahead of both Trudeau and (Art, as I call him) Carney as the preferred leader -- even in Quebec!!@#$^%$%!@#%#$^@!!

Let's all pray that Diefenbaker was right when he said, "Dogs know what to do with polls."

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A word about another "obvious" mess.  Apparently, an investigation is still underway about the party flight a bunch of twenty-somethings took on Sunwing.  Hello!  It was a bunch of kids living it up on a private flight!  What's to investigate?  I remember back-in-the-day when all flights were a sort of free-form party junket, with people smoking and drinking with gay abandon.  Now, however, everything has to be "investigated" to death.

I'm sick of it all.