Who writes this crap?

As a follow-up to my last post, I thought I’d direct you to McFadyen’s op-ed piece from Tuesday’s Freep on the province’s proposed electoral reforms. Geez, I don’t think I’ve seen him this angry since that “grr…communists!” speech from a few years back.

Seriously, just take a look at the first paragraph:

The NDP has introduced a bill that should shock and outrage every Manitoban. It jeopardizes democracy, infringes on Charter rights and seeks only to keep the ruling party in power ad infinitum….The NDP has cynically disguised it as a positive move that simply sets fixed election dates. Within this Trojan horse, Bill 37 is actually an attempt to fix elections for the NDP.

He goes on to use other scary terms like “sinister”, “unconstitutional”, “fox in charge of the henhouse” and claims that “Gary Doer has been in power for so long he thinks he’s entitled to preside over our province like a king.”

Do the Tories really think this kind of over-the-top spin is going to connect with swing voters? If so, then they might want to use their new public funding to make the opposition benches a little more comfortable. After all, they’re going to be there a while.