Garth Is Too Much
From Garth’s blog:
Apparently I am too much. Too much for a successful career in Canadian politics, anyway. As you may have heard, last night I lost my seat in Parliament in the first elections in the world to be held in the immediate wake of the financial and economic mess enveloping us.
Being Canada’s only blogging MP (my political site played a key role in having my butt kicked out of the Conservative party) was bad enough. But being with a political party which seemed to offer people no better safe harbour in this storm was likely the kiss of death. I’d urged my leader to adopt an immediate policy of guaranteeing all private bank savings, but that commitment was blown.
In any case, my own damn fault. If you want to know more, you can buy my book (the new one). More on that in future days.
Garth is too much…
October 15th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Good riddance, Turner.
October 15th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Hey, what about the dippers, or the bloc or the greens or the rinos, or the marjuiana party.. Surely you can change you idiologies to join one of them.
We need you Garth, we need you.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Garth’s trying to figure out if there’s a way he can retroactively change parties and run the election over again.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:37 am
I seem to recall Monte Solberg having a blog…
October 15th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Clancy six:
You’re mistaken…it’s Dion that wants another re-do….and another…and another….
October 15th, 2008 at 9:07 am
So long, loser.
Unfortunately, you took far more than your allotted 15 minutes and we’re all the worse for it.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
I found that virtually all posts that had anything negative about Mr. Turner were immediately taken off of his web site this since last night, this of course has been a long standing practise of Turner in spite of his much trumpeted “Digital Democracy:
It seems that Turner’s variety of democracy includes massive control of the media and censorship.
Good riddance to our Parliament’s “little man with the big mouth”, he deserves the whipping he got last night..
October 15th, 2008 at 10:06 am
“We had an outcome tonight we wished would have been a little different,” said Turner, his wife Dorothy at his side. “We had a competitive campaign in Halton despite all the odds. I am proud to say I stood up to Stephen Harper.”
So ,the election was about your delusions of being personally demonized by Harper after all, representing the people of Halton first was just a secondary delusion.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:22 am
So.. Since Garth kept removing my comments from his blog as fast as I could put them up, I’ll repost here what my advice to him was:
Garth, dust of that resume, your current employment is soon going to be your past employment. You are finito, sans job, done like dinner!
Think he listened?
October 15th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Bye Bye Barf Turnip.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I must be on his blacklist of commenters not to be posted. I highly doubt that it will appear in his comments section, but the comment I left for him was:
Will CPAC be covering your address to these thousands of realtors in Nashiville?
October 15th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Stop worrying about the past, you will be O.K.
Hope is the best thing when things are low.
I always expect the best from you.
Time will heal your wounds.
Have the will to keep on.
Every day after will get better.
A man will get up after a fall.
Deal with the now and the future will be alright.
In these words there is a message of my true feelings for you.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I feel really sad about Mr. Turner’s failure to win his seat for the party he chose to belong to this month. But let’s be honest, Mr. Turner is bound to wind up somewhere yet, as there are no limits to the man’s bottomless lust for power – and principles be damned.
Short of his move to Quebec, I see hope for him only as the new leader of the Greens. Let’s face it, Mz. May is bound to be turfed from her party sooner rather than later, and all Mr. Turner would have to learn are the rather simple, naive mantras so beloved of tree-huggers & anti-sealers everywhere, and he could ooze his way to the leadership in no time flat.
And then watch! Garth would save the world. After all, he believes he has an immense intellect and boundless charisma.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Poor Garth, he is too big for this small Canadian political scene. I wonder he will aim for next. Where will there be a big enough spotlight for him. He sounds like Nora Desmond.
What is that quotation from Shakespeare?… ‘all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts…’ Time to bow and leave the stage, Garth.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Norma Desmond (in the movie, Hollywood Boulevard) said: “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small!”
Ah! Magnanimous in victory and defeat. A truly admirable man worthy to be a leader! Yes, I AM describing Stephen Harper!
October 16th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
So the great Turncoat has been smote!
As someone who got suckered by one of his Toronto Sun coupon campaigns and later bumped into him while working for Reform, I take great pleasure in knowing he’ll no longer have a taxpayer-financed soapbox on which to elevate his shortcomings.