[Newsbot]

Title: Maxime Bernier launches new party with scathing attack on Conservatives
Category: Political
Posted By: martin14
Date: 2018-08-23 10:36:44
Canadian

[martin14]

I don't know if I should be happy about this.
Splitting the vote is never a good idea.

[DrCaleb]

Had to happen though. Conservatives have been playing the divisive card for so long, its only right that it comes back and bites them every election.

[BartSimpson]

$1:

Quebec MP Maxime Bernier is quitting the Conservative caucus to create a new right-wing party, using his exit to launch a series of scathing attacks against Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and his former colleagues.

“I have come to realize over the past year that this party is too intellectually and morally corrupt to be reformed,” Mr. Bernier told reporters in Ottawa on Thursday.

"The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives. It does not represent them anymore. And it has nothing of substance to offer Canadians looking for a political alternative. "

I get it. I've long felt the same way about the fucking Republican Party.

At the least this kind of thing puts the Conservative Party on notice to either live up to their name or else be discarded.

[Tricks]

I don't know much about his politics, in what way have they abandoned conservatives? Too left or too right?

[martin14]

Tricks Tricks:

I don't know much about his politics, in what way have they abandoned conservatives? Too left or too right?

Too left.
Scheer is really just Trudeau-lite, virtually the same
with regards to immigration and PC virtue signaling.

[BartSimpson]

Tricks Tricks:

I don't know much about his politics, in what way have they abandoned conservatives? Too left or too right?

Too left. Your Conservatives are all too often to the left of many of our Democrats.

[martin14]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

I get it. I've long felt the same way about the fucking Republican Party.

At the least this kind of thing puts the Conservative Party on notice to either live up to their name or else be discarded.

Yup.
Maxime is much more to the right than Scheer ever could be.

[Robair]

And that's how long "unite the right" lasts.

[xerxes]

Good luck Maxime. Go ahead and split the vote. The Liberals will get another majority and you’re name will be mud till end of time for it.

[martin14]

Jesus H., Scheer can not speak French for shit. Hurts my ears
trying to listen to him.

[martin14]

xerxes xerxes:

Good luck Maxime. Go ahead and split the vote. The Liberals will get another majority and you’re name will be mud till end of time for it.

Maybe.
If he limited his party to Ontario and Quebec, he could ride the Ford train,
and get the old BQ vote back. Maritimes and West could be left to Scheer.

[Tricks]

martin14 martin14:

Tricks Tricks:

I don't know much about his politics, in what way have they abandoned conservatives? Too left or too right?

Too left.
Scheer is really just Trudeau-lite, virtually the same
with regards to immigration and PC virtue signaling.

He calls himself a libertarian, I don't typically view them as "super right" though. Has that changed recently? Or is it just on the immigration part that he moves away from it.

[N_Fiddledog]

I'm for Mad Max but he might need another 4 years to wash away the taint of his ex and her bad connections.

[martin14]

Tricks Tricks:

martin14 martin14:

Tricks Tricks:

I don't know much about his politics, in what way have they abandoned conservatives? Too left or too right?

Too left.
Scheer is really just Trudeau-lite, virtually the same
with regards to immigration and PC virtue signaling.

He calls himself a libertarian, I don't typically view them as "super right" though. Has that changed recently? Or is it just on the immigration part that he moves away from it.

I haven't read Conservative policies since Mulroney.
That party has been lost for a long time.