Flanders To Run Provincially. Predicts Own Defeat, Then Retracts Own Prediction

Flanders from SoCon or Bust(alias John Pacheco) is running for the Ontario Legislature under the banner of The Family Coalition Party. His campaign got off to a disastrous on Thursday with an interview for the Lifesite in which he suggested that any vote cast his way was a vote wasted:


Pacheco is running for the Family Coalition Party, the only provincial party which is 100% pro-life and pro-family. A competent professional in the world of finance and happily married father of four children, Pacheco has no illusions of gaining a large number of votes in the riding.

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"I'm not going to win this election that's for sure," he told LifeSiteNews.com in an interview today. However, he stated, "if elected I will certainly take my responsibilities seriously but I am under no illusions. We have to take the means legally available to us to get out the pro-life message."

Today, Flanders scrambled to contain the damage:

Regarding the above “I’m not going to win that’s for sure” comment above, I was a tad hasty in my interview on that point. It was a misstatement on my part, and I apologize for making it.

All of which raises the question: if a candidate falls in the forest, and nobody is around who would vote for him anyway, does he make a sound?

Also, get a load of Packy's campaign poster:














What is the message here? "Elect me, because I am a Big Baby." Or, perhaps more accurately: "Elect me, because I am a Giant Fetus."

Either way, it doesn't work for me.