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How duplicitous and mendacious are the people running the PC Party of Ontario?

So much so, in fact, that no matter how much they may purport to hate Justin Trudeau, they secretly believe that he is to be emulated if you want to achieve electoral success in this country.

Believing that they could get away with yet another round of nomination oopsies, and in the Ottawa region of all places (where a cloud still hangs over the Valley from the time when recently ousted MPP Jack McLaren sent longtime PCPO grandee Norm Sterling into retirement back in the Tim Hudak days) the PCPO brass found out this month that they can only push the base so far.

Resignations ring out across the province, while an explosion of Liberal troll accounts on Twitter that are good enough to seem real stoke the fires.

But the ever-optimistic spinners who are charged with pulling the wool over the eyes of those still loyal to Brown aren't bothered in the slightest.  This is all part and parcel of Patrick Brown asserting his control over the disloyal and disobedient factions in the party who can't keep it together long enough to defeat Kathleen Wynne next year.  And after all, didn't Justin Trudeau brave a backlash from his haters in the the run-up to the 2015 election?

Doesn't anyone remember the Eve Adams nomination debacle and how the CPC tried to capitalize on Liberal dissent in the immediate aftermath only to lose their grip?  Surely the same thing will happen to the Ontario Liberals!

Well, if you believe as the PCPO spinners apparently do that Patrick Brown is Justin Trudeau, then of course that makes sense.  Of course you would blindly copy the Liberals while claiming to run against them at the same time and hope nobody will notice.

Because if you have convinced yourself as the PCPO spinners do every election cycle to their eternal detriment that the good people of Ontario will drop Kathleen Wynne's corrupt Liberals at the first opportunity, then of course it follows that nobody could be possibly paying attention to the behind-the-curtain machinations of the PCPO.

Nobody cares about nomination battles, an absence of policy, the Leader's complete absence of humanity, or the fact that you are more likely to find a real live unicorn than a person who will, unprompted, say a kind word about the party on social media.  "Anything is better than four more years of Kathleen Wynne!" they cry.

Well, by their own admission by their own deeds and actions they have shown the province and the party faithful that replacing Kathleen Wynne with Patrick Brown will result in yes four more years of Kathleen Wynne.

For they have become so utterly debased, so consumed in their unbridled lust to return to power that they have erased any difference between the parties, only to find that they are no closer to their goal.

But these PCPO hacks who have allowed themselves to become so thoroughly corrupted and poisoned by their jealousy for the Liberals deserve pity as well.  They are the inevitable product of a system where the Liberals hold absolute sway and dominion over all, where Trudeau is viewed as a demigod if not the literal incarnation of the Divine, and where all institutions, from the police to teachers to tradespeople and the vast majority of municipal officials are all proud to be marked as Liberals, or at least anti-Conservative voices.

Unable to accept that we live in a banana republic, the PCPO bosses close their eyes and pretend not to see the truth, or copy their masters.  They assume a false equivalency between Liberal and Conservative.  They complain about Liberal bias, but do nothing about it because they believe saving face is important.  They do not even have the courage to publicly condemn those who are disloyal.  Instead they work behind the scenes to support this candidate over that candidate in ultimately pointless nomination battles,  and send private emails to MPP's informing them that their time with the party is at an end, but that they hope the news doesn't ruin their weekend.

Yet as horrible as this month has been for Patrick Brown and as naked and distasteful as the ambition of his advisors and loyalists have been, we have not yet even begun to descend to the lowest depths of depravity.  The worst for the PC Party of Ontario is yet to come.

Written by Josh Lieblein

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