What 10 qualities should a good Prime Minister have?

[rfghnshgdhg]

Heartfout

The ablitity to not be Gordon Brown, Tony Blair or David Cameron.

Add Stephen Harper, Stephane Dian, and Paul Martin to that list.

[Lieutenant_Charon]

1. Emulate Edmund Burke.
2. Emulate Winston Churchhill.
3. What the ******** else do you want?

[Ceteris Paribus]

The ability to verbally slap the opposition around like a bunch of dimwitted ********.

[Lieutenant_Charon]

Phuket Noodles

The ability to verbally slap the opposition around like a bunch of dimwitted ********]

Hence Edmund Burke and Winston Churchill.

[DanskiWolf]

Milton Friedman

The ability to verbally slap the opposition around like a bunch of dimwitted ********.

*points to sig*

/thread

[Lieutenant_Charon]

DanskiWolf

Milton Friedman

The ability to verbally slap the opposition around like a bunch of dimwitted ********.

*points to sig*

/thread

I still say Edmund Burke.

[DanskiWolf]

Edmund Burke v. Paul Keating mano-a-mano in a political b*tchslap contest would be quite a sight.

[lmasdlkjasdoiajusdlknm]

The question rarely asked:

Does our love for Edmund Burke make us more conservative than today's conservatives?

[lmasdlkjasdoiajusdlknm]

DanskiWolf

Edmund Burke v. Paul Keating mano-a-mano in a political b*tchslap contest would be quite a sight.

Lets keep things a bit more modern.

Pierre Elliot Trudeau vs Paul Keating mano-a-mano.

[Lieutenant_Charon]

AnarchoPhiliac

The question rarely asked:

Does our love for Edmund Burke make us more conservative than today's conservatives?

No, because he's Edmund ******** Burke.

We love him for his quotes and stories, attributed or not.

At any rate, he lived in a time so remarkably different from ours, that to attribute to him any characteristic of modern politics is simply intellectually dishonest.

[DanskiWolf]

AnarchoPhiliac

The question rarely asked:

Does our love for Edmund Burke make us more conservative than today's conservatives?

By today's standards liking any conservative outside Ronald Reagan or Sarah Palin makes you a RINO or some s**t.

[lmasdlkjasdoiajusdlknm]

Lieutenant_Charon

AnarchoPhiliac

The question rarely asked:

Does our love for Edmund Burke make us more conservative than today's conservatives?

No, because he's Edmund ******** Burke.

We love him for his quotes and stories, attributed or not.

At any rate, he lived in a time so remarkably different from ours, that to attribute to him any characteristic of modern politics is simply intellectually dishonest.

I personally love the guy for not being an imperialist/colonialist ********.

[DanskiWolf]

AnarchoPhiliac

DanskiWolf

Edmund Burke v. Paul Keating mano-a-mano in a political b*tchslap contest would be quite a sight.

Lets keep things a bit more modern.

Pierre Elliot Trudeau vs Paul Keating mano-a-mano.

Trudeau, though liberal, was a monarchist wasn't he? Keating would have him on a plate with that. He could curbstomp any Commonwealth royalist on that topic.

[lmasdlkjasdoiajusdlknm]

DanskiWolf

AnarchoPhiliac

The question rarely asked:

Does our love for Edmund Burke make us more conservative than today's conservatives?

By today's standards liking any conservative outside Ronald Reagan or Sarah Palin makes you a RINO or some s**t.

Heck, even George H.W. Bush would be considered a RINO today with the GOP screaming "WHY DIDN'T YOU GO ALL THE WAY TO BAGHDAD?!"

[Lieutenant_Charon]

AnarchoPhiliac

Lieutenant_Charon

AnarchoPhiliac

The question rarely asked:

Does our love for Edmund Burke make us more conservative than today's conservatives?

No, because he's Edmund ******** Burke.

We love him for his quotes and stories, attributed or not.

At any rate, he lived in a time so remarkably different from ours, that to attribute to him any characteristic of modern politics is simply intellectually dishonest.

I personally love the guy for not being an imperialist/colonialist ********]

Sure, but his rejection of natural rights and instead equating the social contract to divine providence bugs me.

In a distinctly humanist way. He was aggravatingly religious in other ways, too. Despised the French Revolution for their supposed atheism, for example.

But yeah, what you said does count for something.