I love our base

All the recent talk about needing to expand our base and building a broad coalition has got me thinking, what is wrong with our base? Do we all have scurvy? Why is it that leaders that we elect, seem to want to run away from us as soon as possible?

So here it is, to partially make up for all the crappy things we do to them, a love letter to our base:

Dear hard-working, often-rural, middle-class, natural-born Canadian:

I love you.

As an immigrant, as a city boy, and as someone who will never be able to work as hard as you do, I want to say thank you!

I want to thank you for sticking with our party - even when we are being idiots. Even when our leaders try to outlaw your livelihood by banning tobacco, you stick by us. Even when our leaders call you hicks, you stick by us. Even when our leaders talk about reaching out to every racial group and every religion except yours, you stick by us. I sometimes wonder what you get out of voting for us.

We in the Conservative Party, and the Ontario PC Party, are like cheating husbands. We come to you every four years and say that we'll stick by you and fight for your principles, and then when you all vote for us we run to the cities and sell you out to get the postmodern liberals to vote for us. We sell you out to get the vote of people who live in downtown Toronto and wonder why their taps don't have a Perrier option.

So thank you for not asking for a divorce.

Like I said earlier, I love you!

Cheers,

bluetory