tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post5983460369099933769..comments2024-03-29T04:13:44.353-04:00Comments on BigCityLib Strikes Back: Mulroney vs. Harperbigcitylibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05081538803991095825noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-16987374990832828402009-09-30T10:34:24.031-04:002009-09-30T10:34:24.031-04:00Mulroney's capital punishment vote was the 198...Mulroney's capital punishment vote was the 1980s equivalent of Harper's vote on same-sex marriage. The issue had already been settled (although public opinion still favoured capital punishment in theory, if not in practice), but a so-con rump would not let it lie.<br /><br />To get their votes, Mulroney, like Harper, promised a free vote that he moved heaven and earth to make sure he lost. (In Mulroney's case, unlike Harper with banning marriage, he was not willing to actually pretend he personally supported capital punishment).<br /><br />In both cases, the tactic worked and took the issue off the table, presumably permanently. The idiots got their free vote under a Conservative government (in Mulroney's case, once with a massive majority and an actual majority of the popular vote) and <b>still</b> lost. Eventually they, as socon MPs always do, realized a gold-plated pension was worth a lot more than getting to decide to kill someone they don't know or preventing a couple they don't know from marrying.Reality Biteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10350104223630062677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-58536075245015897502009-09-29T18:08:45.517-04:002009-09-29T18:08:45.517-04:00I don't remember the abortion debate in the 80...I don't remember the abortion debate in the 80's being so entangled with the issues of sexuality and sexual liberation. I'm sure people more invested in the issue than I was were aware of it, but the rest of us didn't have LifeShite etc. to make us aware of the fact that anti-choicers are fundamentally, anti-sex...particularly for women. The debate really was much more focused on the issue of whether abortion was anything like murder.<br /><br />Mulroney was singularly uninterested in what people did in their private lives and in that respect, was not a conservative like Mullah Ben-Ami imagines conservatives are supposed to be. He was a Tory.Ti-Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06620550471437012866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-41047997611785158082009-09-29T17:50:55.752-04:002009-09-29T17:50:55.752-04:00Thank you anonymous spell checking dude.Thank you anonymous spell checking dude.bigcitylibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05081538803991095825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-1660950118963570232009-09-29T17:49:08.586-04:002009-09-29T17:49:08.586-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com