Divide and Destroy, Wingnut Style

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Remember Paul Weyrich, the wingnut welfare king who told all the far right fundies down south to keep quiet if they were contacted by Canadian media about the Harpoon and his real intentions prior to the election?


Well, here's an Email that Mr. Weyrich sent out to all the brethren just a few days before the big event.

From: Paul Weyrich
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:38 AM
To: Bob Thompson [a staffer at Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation
Subject: message from Canada
Importance: High

Please get this message to the Stanton, Family Forum and Wednesday lunch groups:

I received a call last night from Gerald Chipeur, an important figure in Canada’s Conservative Party. He told me that Conservatives are with-in striking distance of electing an outright majority in Parliamentary elections Monday.

He said the Canadian media, which is trying to save the current Liberal government, has a strategy of calling conservatives in the USA in the hopes that someone will inadvertently say something that can be hung around the Conservatives.

Canadian voters have been led to believe that American conservatives are scary and if the Conservative party can be linked with us, they perhaps can diminish a Conservative victory. Chipeur asks that if Canadian media calls, please do not be interviewed until Monday evening at which point hopefully there will be reason to celebrate

Many thanks.


Anyway, that was then and this is now.

Because Mr. Weyrich can't keep his mouth shut these days.

And what he has to say about Mr. Harper's true intentions is pretty darned interesting:

After Harper's victory in an election that Weyrich found "exciting to watch," he penned a story for his organization's website that described both pessimistic and optimistic scenarios that could result from the election's outcome.

According to Weyrich, conservative pessimists told him that since they lack a parliamentary majority, the best Harper can do is to "adopt a more reasonable view of the United States and to correct some premises of Cultural Marxism, which Canadians have espoused, such as same-sex marriage and abortion-on-demand."

Harper, however, can do much more than that, Weyrich asserts: "Harper is pleased that the media and many in his own party are nay-saying," Weyrich argues, "think[ing] that such pessimism would lower expectations and give him additional latitude to accomplish his agenda. Harper's game plan apparently is to pit the federalist Liberals against the Bloc Quebecois and the decentralizing Bloc against big-government Liberals."

Sheesh.

If this is really true (and why should we doubt Mr. Weyrich's ability to read a fellow traveller) no wonder Mr. Harper is in hiding.

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Thanks to: South of 49th friend, and wildflower photographer extraordinare, Prairie Weather for the tip.
And if Mr. Weyrich can call me and mine 'Cultural Marxists' for being tolerant and believing that helping out our fellow citizens is actually a worthy goal, well, I think that gives me carte blanche to call him and his 'Fearful Fascists'. After all, it's all just a 'framing' game, right?