When even Adler is on your case...

Conservatives know that they’ve screwed up when radio talk-show host and generally right-friendly columnist Charles Adler blasts them:

Back in the ‘90s, I stuck the Judas horns on the big fat head of Lucien Bouchard.

He betrayed Brian Mulroney by leaving the cabinet, founding the Bloc Quebecois and creating a bizarre picture of people sitting in the House or Commons on a mission to destroy Confederation.

Much more recently I hung horns on David Emerson for selling out those who voted for him as a Liberal.

Emerson didn’t like being called a traitor. He much preferred the term lying politician.

Back on February 7th, the day after Emerson’s surprise swearing in caused so many Conservatives to swear, Adler had this to say:

Dear Prime Minister Frankenstein,

… And all this brings us around to your very first act in office. You brought Liberal David Emerson into government. Apparently you didn’t even ask him to turn in his Liberal membership card before putting his hand on the Bible.

You took a guy who told everyone in his riding that they should not vote for your guy because you were on the far right. After being sworn in, he told people that his entry into cabinet meant you were tacking left.

Adler gets it. Canadians overwhelmingly get it. Eventually Emerson and Harper will get it too…