Well. Stephen Harper's certainly got his wife well
trained. The Globe's Ottawa
Notebook reports that Laureen brought the forelorn Peter MacKay dinner on
Thurday night after hearing that the poor thing had "hardly eaten during
this difficult time." According to Jane Taber, before the
non-confidence vote, Laureen made dinner for MacKay and Harper, allowing the
two political enemies to kiss and make up. Seems like the love of a good
woman - and a turkey sandwich - can heal the wounds inflicted by a bad one -
especially the sort of licentious broad who goes out dancing
on a school night. That's just unladylike.
We don't get much information on Laureen Harper, except when Harper trots out
his wife's existence for the odd press sound bite to prove that he actually
acknowledges women's existence. Of course, we never do find out what
Laureen herself has to say about anything. It seems that despite being a
former Reform party strategist in her own right (who gave it up to concentrate
on her "wifely duties"), Laureen's brain has gotten too muddled by
all that baby-rearing and meal preparation she does to pay attention to Ottawa
gossip herself. So, like a good PromiseKeeper, Harper gives his wife the
odd tidbit she can recite confidently at a PTA meeting or supermarket check-out
line, and then he shares them with the rest of the country.
On Wednesday, Harper said:
"I told my wife only a few days ago that I thought it had become obvious to Belinda that her leadership ambitions would not be reached in this party regardless of whether or not we won the next election."
He’s a wily one, that Harper. A real multi-tasker. This little snippet of wisdom offers a twofold benefit: not only does he disparage that deviously “ambitious” female, Belinda, but he also actively discourages Laureen from any kind of “blond ambition” tour of her very own. Wouldn’t want the missus to get too uppity now – there’s a masculine party to nourish back to health. Hence Laureen Harper’s dinner tour of 2005.
Of course, even if Laureen did defect to the dark side (doubtless to Madonna’s “Express Yourself”, since Belinda’s already spoken for “Material Girl”), Harper’s always got the other two wives in the wings:
Ooooooooohhhhhh. Dreamy. I’ll take a tie-less Harper over a potato-farming Peter MacKay any day. Thank God that gay marriage bill passed – I’ve always wanted to be a celestial wife.
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