A candidate running to be a senior federal Liberal party official in British Columbia has called Stephen Harper a "d-bag" in a posting on his publicly-accessible facebook page. And, in the same online conversation, he referenced how Hitler Youth got "swag" with "Nazi logos on it" while discussing a Conservative MP who tried to donate party-branded bottles of water to school children. But, in an interview with Public Eye, Jason Lamarche said he wasn't suggesting the Tories were behaving like the Nazis. Although he acknowledged he could have "re-calibrated" how he described the prime minister.
Mr. Lamarche, a popular partisan blogger, posted facebook comments in reaction to news that Tory backbencher Shelly Glover attempted to give those bottles to a school division in Manitboa.
"Seriously...someone tell that d-bag Harper to stop branding Canada as Conservativeanada...this article is so upsetting. First the cheques, then water bottles. When will it end?," Mr. Lamarche wrote of the attempt, which was rebuffed by the division.
He later added, "Didn't the Hitler youth get free swag with Nazi logos on it?"
Asked about the appropriateness of those comments, Lamarche told Public Eye, "I think it's up to the reader to judge for themselves what they think of it."
Specifically addressing his comment about the Hitler Youth, the candidate said he was "just trying to make the point I don't think political logos and brands have a place in the education system. So that was a historical reference to when (that principle) was broken. People can infer what they want from it. But I wasn't suggesting the Conservatives themselves are behaving along the lines of the Nazis, obviously."
As for calling the prime minister a "d-bag," Mr. Lamarche stated, "Could I have re-calibrated that phrase? Yeah, I could have. But do I think highly of the man and the thing his ministers do? No. And I don't shy away from that. I don't hide it."
"I use colourful language," he continued. "I mean, people can read between the lines if they want. But they're just interactions with people on my blog. I don't mean it to be anything beyond that."
Mr. Lamarche is running against Young Liberals national vice president (communications) Braeden Caley to be the party's organization chair in British Columbia.
That race will be decided this weekend, when the province's Grits meet in Whistler for their biennial convention.
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Sean, you da man! One more leftarded idiot to the trash bin of history!!!
Total smiles - I just see a certain M.P. getting this kind of crap as propellent to greater glory!!! The more angry the left gets, the more right the right is!!! :-)