92% Of Canadian Socialists Agree

QUEBEC (CP) - NDP members have given their leader, Jack Layton, a strong endorsement.

Delegates at a party convention voted 92 per cent in support of Layton's continued leadership.

The announcement of the leadership-review results prompted a long ovation from about 1,500 delegates gathered in Quebec City.

Layton became party leader in January 2003 and has seen the NDP's seat count in the House of Commons rise significantly in two consecutive elections.

He probably helped his case with party delegates by calling for a withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan, a popular cause with the party's rank-and-file.

Meanwhile, back in the real world...

The New Democratic Party used to be kind of cute, the way a precocious five-year-old is cute.

Fun to listen to, but you don't want to put them in charge of the household accounts.

New Democrats believe in preposterous things, but at least you used to be able to say they had good intentions.

No more.

After this week, having a membership in the New Democratic Party ought to be considered evidence of serious mental illness.

In a sane society, we would round these people up with cattle prods as the danger to society that they are, and put them behind barbed wire in the High Arctic and put them to work drilling oil wells in protected wildlife preserves.

These people are crazier than an outhouse rat.

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They are nuttier than a pecan pie.

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New Democrats are socialists and socialism is Communism-Lite.

Anybody who paid attention to world events over the last century knows Communism -- and its wimpy handmaiden socialism -- don't work.

Every country that has a seriously socialist or Communist government is totalitarian to some degree, and screws up the economy so that goods and services to ordinary people are in short supply.

They are corrupt and evil and deny the aspirations of their best and brightest.

Socialism and communism operate under the assumption that people who are good at something and earn money for it are wicked and those who do not are noble and that the government should steal the earnings of achievers and give it to underachievers.

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As long as New Democrats talked about "fairness" (for non-achievers) and equity (which translates roughly as 'eat the rich and middle classes') they could be considered to have a constituency, albeit one completely bereft of intelligent understanding of the nature of the world.

They have now, under Smirkin' Jack Layton, a pathetic political opportunist who has never held a real job for any length of time -- unless you consider university professor and politician real jobs -- revealed their true insanity.

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Another calls for a "day of Remembrance" in November for transexuals.

What kind of political party would defile the term "Remembrance" in the month of November -- for those New Democrats reading this, here's a helpful hint: Nov. 11 is Remembrance Day, the day we sanctify the sacrifices of the nation's warriors, not a bunch of gender-confused whack-jobs bent on self-mutilation of their genitals -- with a call for this kind of nonsense?