I have to admit that when I first saw the video Stephen Harper made for Andrew Scheer I was stunned.
I couldn't believe that the Cons thought that Harper could help them.
When to someone like me who spent so many years fighting him and his ugly regime it seemed more like a horror story.
Has anybody seen the fake scandal? You know, the scandal that was supposed to finish off Justin Trudeau and his Liberals.
The one Andrew Scheer has been desperately looking for to try to boost his sagging polls.
One moment it was huge. Or in the words of the Con media YUUUUUUUUGE.
The next moment it was missing.
It had been over a week since the Liberals dug up a tape of Andrew Scheer comparing LGBT Canadians to dogs.
And about four days since his Cons were caught lying about abortion in Quebec.
But still the cowardly Scheer remained huddled with his advisers, and refusing to show his face.
Until at last he was forced to hold a newser, and what a disaster it was.
We always knew that Stephen Harper never really went away. And that he was still lurking in the shadows whispering into Andrew Scheer's ears. And pulling his strings.
The two men were always were very careful to keep their close relationship under wraps.
But now Scheer is desperate, he's been slipping in the polls.
So now Harper is coming out of shadowy closet.
In one of my last posts I revealed that Andrew Scheer has been quietly parachuting anti-choice candidates into ridings all over Canada.
And said that the Cons should now be known as the Religious Party of Canada.
The party that says one thing in English Canada and something completely different in Quebec.
And now it seems that the Con Messiah is starting to lose his marbles.
I greatly admire Greta Thunberg the Swedish teenager who has mobilized millions of young people to fight climate change.
And as you probably know I love sailing.
So needless to say I really love this story.
A few days ago we got to watch that grotesque video of Andrew Scheer comparing LGBT Canadians to dogs.
And revealing his inner religious fanatic.
Well now more of that deeply disturbing fanaticism has been exposed.
And it's just as shocking.
I have to say that Justin Trudeau really made Canada look good at the G7 Summit in France.
He seemed to stand out from the other leaders, as the fresh face of the future.
Along with his friend Emmanuel Macron he helped keep Donald Trump under control.
While somehow also managing to restrain Melania.
It's been a long time since I read anything from Rex Murphy, and a long time since I've seen him, although he lives in my neighbourhood.
Which is a good thing since I despise that ghastly little oil pimp, and I'm always afraid I might bump into him. And say something I might regret later.
In fact for one magic moment this summer I thought he had retired.
But no. He's still around and as disgusting as ever.
I've tried hard to explain why I find Andrew Scheer's religious homophobia so deeply disturbing. I think it's important to do that because it explains so many things about Scheer, including his diseased hatred for Justin Trudeau.
But it's not easy to portray something that ugly.
Scheer knows how to hide his true feelings behind a creepy smile.
So I'm really glad that the Liberals dug up this video of Scheer during the same sex marriage debate.
Ever since the Ethics Commissioner released his report, Andrew Scheer has been in a feverish frenzy. Trying once again to portray the tacky little SNC affair as Canada's biggest scandal EVER.
And demanding that the RCMP investigate and if necessary jail Justin Trudeau.
But while that deranged approach worked for him at the beginning of the year, and helped propel him and his Cons to the top of the polls.
Now it's all going horribly wrong.
When I last wrote about Andrew Scheer he was marching in an Acadian parade in New Brunswick.
And being made to look like a fool by Justin Trudeau.
As well as a loser and a serial liar.
And although Scheer was missing from this parade in Montreal yesterday.
Ever since the Cons made Andrew Scheer their leader, I have hated him for the same reasons I hate most of them.
I hate his religious fanaticism, his misogyny, his racism, his homophobia, his climate change denial.
But what I also hate about Scheer, is the ugly, cowardly, and very un-Canadian way he has attacked Justin Trudeau.
With a never-ending barrage of vile Republican-style attack ads, that have debased our entire political system.
And stunts like this one.
In my last post I looked at how Justin Trudeau's poll numbers had finally recovered from the so-called fake scandal.
And I expressed the fond hope that I would never have to hear from the two Connies Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott again.
Then this happened.
And to my horror the fake scandal was back !!!
Justin Trudeau had to draw on all of his inner strength to overcome the malignant influence of Jody Wilson-Raybould and her grotesque fake scandal.
As well as battle Andrew Scheer's Cons and his grubby stooge media, who tried to use the fake scandal to destroy him.
For months it looked like they might succeed, as Trudeau's polls headed south.
But with just 70 days to go before the election, the fake scandal is all but forgotten.
As you may know, I've never had much respect for Postmedia, and many of the grubby scribblers who work for it.
The Con stooges who don't have to ask their corporate bosses what they want. They just know: Higher profits, lower taxes, and no Justin Trudeau.
And are only too eager to please or pleasure them.
But if that was once just an understanding, now apparently it's even worse, and even more humiliating.
It's a strange thing. Although I truly believe that Andrew Scheer is an ugly Con and a danger to this country and its values, he keeps reminding me of the comic character Mr Bean.
So instead of standing there shaking an outraged fist in his general direction, as all decent Canadians should.
I sometimes find myself almost falling out of my chair, or rolling on the carpet, dying of laughter.
But what am I supposed to do when the Cons themselves seem intent on making Weak Andy look bad?
When you're out sailing on one of the Great Lakes as I have been doing recently, it's hard to imagine that the world is running out of water.
But that is the case for one quarter of humanity.
And this is equally ominous.
As I'm sure you know by now, Andrew Scheer has been trying to soften his image.
By among other things promising to give the medicare system he wants to privatize, a shot in the arm. Or more likely one in the heart.
But sadly for Scheer his PR offensive went horribly wrong over the course of the long weekend.
When he was exposed first as a gun nut, and then as a bigot. Again.
Andrew Scheer has managed to conceal what he really thinks about our medicare system, like he has managed to conceal so many other things.
His religious fanaticism, his grotesque misogyny, his vicious anti-gay views.
But he has been overheard in private excitedly discussing what he would like to do to our healthcare system i.e. privatize it beyond recognition.
So this couldn't be more hypocritical, or more shameless.
