Is the cup half full or half empty?

When news of the merger of the Canadian Alliance with the Progressive Conservative Party broke, I wondered what this would mean for social conservatives like myself.

Monitoring the media's reaction one would think this was a most divisive evolution. They had no trouble finding the most rabid anti unity spokesperson (David Orchard) and making it sound as if he had thousands of followers who would lead a charge to undo this unholy alliance. David Orchard became a media darling when only weeks earlier at the PC leadership convention he was described as an "interloper" who had used his extensive anti free trade membership lists to hijack the PC party. Then they trotted out a relic from the past in the form of Joe Clark who, in his time as leader, brought the PCs so far left they were indistinguishable from the Liberals (or the NDP for that matter).

The way I figure it, having watched the political games played in Canada for some years, this whole unite the right campaign is the last thing the liberal media wants. They don't want choices to be between black and white, right and wrong. They would much rather have choices between "lukewarm and medium," "sort of and whatever." The minute you have "people" rallying to a cause or championing a leader, the liberal media loses control of the agenda.

This merger of the two parties has been in the works for a long time and hasn't happened mainly because of the media. Previous efforts were made under the glow of the television camera lights. To see it finally accomplished caught all of the pundits by surprise and they looked rather silly with their collective tongues hanging out at the announcement.

So what do we do? We who value human life. We who believe marriage and families are the root of Canadian society. I am an optimist. I maintain these situations are presented to us so we can take advantage of them for the cause of good. To all those who joined parties in the past I say "join again."

The new "Conservative Party" has no hard and fast policies developed yet. We can impact that by joining now. The new party has no leader yet, we can have our say only if we join. Perhaps the most important benefit to joining now is that you will decide who your candidate is for the next election campaign, likely to be this spring.

This merger of the CA and the PCs is an opportunity. A God sent opportunity. Join the party and let's make this happen. Call your local constituency or call our office and we will help you.