Well now it's official. Kevin O'Leary has finally announced that he does indeed want to be the leader, or the new King of the Harper Party.
He claims ordinary
And he wants Justin Trudeau to know that he is going to be his worst nightmare.
And that the next election is going to be an exorcism.
Kevin O’Leary doesn’t just see himself as becoming the next prime minister of Canada. He sees himself as the one who can rid the country of current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his majority Liberal government.
“This is not going to be an election but an exorcism,” said O’Leary. “Where is it written in the Constitution we have to settle for mediocrity and incompetence? I am scraping that all away. We deserve so much better. I will get rid of the malaise of Trudeau.”
“You won’t remember his name when I am finished.”
But sadly for O'Leary, he can't escape his sorry record.
And the Globe's Tim Kiladze is just the latest reporter to remind us that Mr Wonderful's claim to be a great businessman is mostly hot air.
Like Donald Trump, he tries to project an image that suggests every business he’s touched is wildly successful. As we uncovered in Report on Business magazine, the reality is much less rosy.
Mr. O’Leary’s billion-dollar sale of his software company in 1999 proved to be a disaster, his track record on Dragon’s Den was spotty, and the investment fund company he co-founded roared out of the gates, only to fall out of favour with investors and their advisers.
And as his former Dragon's Den cast member Arlene Dickinson also reminds us, when O'Leary claims that all the outrageous things he's said on TV, like union members should be jailed or economic inequality is "fantastic," were just show business bluster.
Don't believe him.
For Dickinson says what you see is who he is...
A greedy, grubby hustler who only cares about himself, or making money.
And as Press Progress reminds us, is only a legend in his own mind.
And not as brilliant as he imagines...
Watch Kevin O'Leary bomb every question on Celebrity Jeopardy for 2 minutes straight #cdnpoli #canlab #cpcldr pic.twitter.com/Mwoij2yQDF— PressProgress (@pressprogress) January 18, 2017
More like as dumb as a spoon.
And when I saw that, and I heard that Peter MacKay is worried that O'Leary could destroy the party he sold to Stephen Harper.
And he should know eh?
That's when I decided to support O'Leary's campaign to be the new King of the Con clowns...
Once I thought that Kellie Trump would be the one to destroy them.
You know, our useful idiot.
But now I think Mr Wonderful will do an even better job...
This is why progressives always lose. The exact same thing happened with trump. We will promote this guy all the while spending the next 2.5 years tearing Justin Trudeau down because he is not ideologically pure. We will probably also latch onto to an "email" scandal or two. Many fucktards will hype the no chance ndp and the vote will split in this douchebag's favour and we will all be so fucked. No more pension and American style health care. Do not say I didn't warn you. There are many idiots in Canada who think "he's a bidness man he knows bidness!"
ReplyDeleteThe future is so very bleak.
hi anon...cheer up, progressives don't always lose. Thanks to Trump and some of the things that are going on in Europe, we are going through a dark period. But Kevin O'Leary is no Trump, and while he might win the Con leadership, he will never beat Justin Trudeau. Our Canadian values will protect us, and while the present is bleak, the future still belongs to us...
DeleteAnon 8:38, one person's "tearing Justin Trudeau down because he is not ideologically pure" is another person's holding Justin Trudeau to the promises he made or moving him to a more progressive agenda.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons the GOP is so far to the right is that the Tea Party attacked RINOs with as much gusto as it did Dems. You see a similar dynamic here, with Con supporters attacking Red Tories. Instead of copying what obviously works, so-called progressives worry about criticizing Trudeau instead of holding his feet to the fire. Sad.
Trudeau ran as a pipeline-supporting, free-trading, Keynesian, social progressive, centrist. He expanded the pension and rolled it back to age 65 from 67. His child benefit cheque represented the single biggest drop in child poverty in history.
DeleteI am at the bottom rung of the middle class, so these changes had a huge effect on my life. I don't know what I would do if they were rolled back. I wish I was as delusional or as privileged as you so I could play the Both Side™ bullshit card every time I didn't agree with something the Prime Minister did, but I can't.
Anyone not bringing in a 6 figure income is Doomed! Carry on!
ReplyDeletehi Kathleen...well I don't know if I can carry on after that. ;) But what I do know is that we just have to fight even harder against those who would turn us into slaves, and create a more just society...
DeleteIt's almost a month late, but what a birthday present for Trudeau.
ReplyDeletehi rumleyfips...yes Justin really is spoiled. First he gets Kellie Trump as a gift, and then he gets Kevin O'Leary....
DeleteThank you Arlene Dickinson for confirming what I already knew. O'Leary is as big an asshole in real life as he is on tv.
ReplyDeleteWhat I find truly bizarre is that he took "guidance" from has been Mike Harris and Harper enabler Crooked Marjorie Lebreton. She's so crooked they'll have to screw her into the ground after she croaks. She lied like a thief to cover Harper's tracks and save herself during the Duffy scandal so as credibility goes, she's bankrupt.
So thank you Mike and Marj for helping to foist O'leary on us. Maybe now the Con media will focus on the Con eat Con leadership race as opposed to JT's "scandalous" helicopter rides and use of French in Quebec.
JD
hi JD...yes that was pretty devastating wasn't it? And O'Leary has been confirmed, if anyone still doubted it, as an absolute asshole. The story about the poor kids really says it all. And partnering up with people like Mike Harris and of all people Marjorie LeBreton, tells us all we need to know about where Mr Wonderful would lead us if he ever became prime minister. But thankfully he never will, and no matter how hard the Con media hammer Justin Trudeau, he is going to be Prime Minister for a long long time...
Delete.. Sorry Simon .. I choose to pimp for Blanery & Scheery.. as a WWF tagteam.. If there's a 3some for sure I want Peter Van Loan's ex paramour Kristinn Kellie & her trusty sidetwitch Nicodemonic Kookoovalis.. But. i like the horse's arse you got yer money on.. He got panache.. even if he don't know what it is.. Let's tell him panache is found inside falafels.. see if that gets him spinny eh!
ReplyDeletehi salamander...you know I keep forgetting that Kellie Trump once dated the Con toad Peter Van Loan. Surely that should also be held against her, for it clearly demonstrates, if further proof is needed, that she has absolutely no judgement.... ;)
DeleteTerrible idea. Elected leaders get taken seriously even when they shouldn't. FFS did you not liveblog the slow motion train wreck in the US the past 18 months...
ReplyDeletehi aweb...don't worry, I'm not really serious about supporting Kevin O'Leary. I'd rather cut off my right arm before I support any Con. I'm only hoping he wins, because NOBODY could take him seriously, and he would cripple the Cons for a generation...
DeleteWhen I saw the headline of this posting, I nearly had a stroke. Then I realized the brilliance of Montreal Simon and can do nothing but agree with your strategy!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting the Jeopardy clip of our next "dumb as a bag of hammers" Conservative leader for our amusement. I loved the part where he had to be "given" $1000 to stay in the game; that strikes me as welfare of the worst type.
hi political junkie...I'm sorry I was a bit naughty. I only wanted you guys to briefly think that I had lost my mind, not give you a stroke. But thank you, I'm glad you agree with my master strategy to destroy the Cons. Give them enough O'Leary and they'll go down screaming. And wasn't that Jeopardy game great? Give the loser $1000 to stay in the game, and watch him blow that too. Forget about Mr Wonderful and let's start calling him Mr Zero... ;)
DeleteWhat I found most disturbing was that this idiot's ego couldn't stop him from hitting the buzzer when he clearly didn't have a clue what the question was.
DeleteAn incredibly stupid buffoon. What is Kevin O'Leary?
JD
hi JD...I know wasn't that hilarious? He jumped on that buzzer as aggressively as he would, only to be made to look like a fool. And yes indeed what is O'Leary? The only quiz show I enjoyed more than that one was when Stephen Harper appeared on Reach for the Top, and was humiliated by a kid from a poorer school than his. And I only wish that Harper and O'Leary had appeared on a quiz show together, so they both could have looked like idiots... ;)
DeleteForget about that deal where Mattel way overpaid for O'Leary's software company and services, and their $112 million loss in just one of the years. Small beer. Somehow O'Leary although sued got away and Mattel took it all on the chin.
ReplyDeleteRemember O'Leary Funds, launched in 2008 on the Exchange with fragrant Deep State Host Amanda Lang? Yes? Oh, yes, O'Leary funds, THE MOST FANTASTICAL thing ever invented. "You'd better believe it!" quoth the man hisself.
The same small brain crowd I heard today on a CBC Halifax Maritime Noon phone-in show saying thing like, "I guess a businessman would sort things out in Ottawa", subscribed to O'Leary Funds, the Dividend Dispenser, to the tune of $1.5 BILLION.
Then, it was discovered the Fund Dividends were being paid out of the Fund itself. Naughty, Kevin, using capital to pay dividends. Illegal. The fund value continued to go down until it was worth only $800 M, as depositors got their money out of that Kevin shit show before it all hit the fan. You can google the details.
Anyway, this self-obsessed knob, whose carnival huckster blowhard I'm Mr Wonderful show is English only, is out of luck in Quebec. He can't put on a fact-free boastful act in French to fool our compatriots, because he's unilingual. Scared to expose his weakness. And if you can't fool them out there with ridiculously self-serving oratory, you're just another Anglo ex-Canadian Yankee parachuted in from Boston with no hair and an ego whose translated ravings make no sense on the printed page. Whose TV visage is a contorted sneer of derision at the FOOLs. A winning attitude for sure.
Exorcise General Malaise is his new motto, and would probably make a good barbecue sauce for kippers. I'm relying on French Canada to refute this buffoon if he becomes CPC leader, because he couldn't be assed to even try to speak French and is due no consideration whatsoever from them.
BM
hi BM...yes, you make a lot of good points, and it is stunning that anyone with a record like O'Leary could fool anyone into thinking that he's a good businessman. That whole Mattel affair bordered on fraud or misrepresentation. And had he not got away with that he'd be nowhere today. He is in fact just a poor man's Trump, a reality show host with a big mouth. And for some annoying reason a tacky ad where he offers to make you rich seems to follow me around everywhere. And if I ever bothered to click on it and find out more, I'm sure it would just be another scam. But don't worry the last person Quebecers are going to vote for is a cheap hustler who doesn't speak French, and is on record as saying he doesn't think speaking French is necessary. Bye bye 78 seats, bye bye O'Leary, bye bye Cons...
DeleteHi Simon,
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why you say you support O'Leary. Did I miss something?
hi anon...yes you did miss something, but it's my fault. I was so intent on having some fun, that I wasn't clear enough. The only reason I'm pulling for O'Leary is that at this time I think he is the leadership candidate that can do the Cons the most harm. I may be wrong, and if so I'll go back to cheering for Leitch. But I fear that her virulent racism could poison our country, so I'd much rather see the buffoon O'Leary blow the Cons out of the water. Of course, if all things fail, there's always Brad Trost... ;)
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