Apparently the parents of dead soldiers are once again fair game.
The Conservatives have suspended their communications director over comments about a dead soldier's father - the latest gaffe in the first week of the Harper election campaign. Ryan Sparrow was disciplined for implying that criticism of Prime Minister Stephen Harper by Jim Davis was politically motivated.
Davis, who lost a son in Afghanistan, complained Thursday that Harper's surprise decision to completely end the Afghan mission in 2011 was "irresponsible." He said he son will have died in vain if Canada pulls its troops out of the country before the mission is complete.
In an email to a reporter, Sparrow noted that Davis was a supporter of deputy Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. The inference was that Davis was complaining because he was a Liberal.
Harper spokesman Kory Teneycke said Sparrow has been suspended and ordered to apologize to Davis. "Obviously, that's not appropriate. And he will be contacting the father directly to apologize and is being suspended immediately from the campaign, (for) the duration of the campaign."
Well of course Mr. Davis must be a Liberal supporter. Everyone who’s anyone knows that a good little Reform-Alliance-Tory (RAT)
In other words, IOKIYARAT.
6 comments:
You have absolutely no idea of the willpower it's costing me to avoid writing the obvious.
No, really.
Come on CC, you know you want too...
Ryan, toast. Toast, Ryan.
I'm really confused.
Isn't that statement the sort the Conservatives want to hear from military families? I mean, on any other day, wouldn't the fellow be held up as a reason why Canada can't cut and run? and any Liberals and ND demanding end dates would be taliban sympathizers stomping all over the grievous sacrifice made? Wouldn't any Liberal making such a statement formerly be held up as a 'bi-partisan sanity' man?
Are they going to blame Sparrow on being an over-eager web designer?
I know what you want to write, CC, but I'm not going to do it for you.
You have absolutely no idea of the willpower it's costing me to avoid writing the obvious.
Willpower is highly overrated. Come on CC, give in to temptation -- you know you want to.
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