“Mulroney was so far up Reagan’s backside that Thatcher kept running into him.”

- Paul Tomblin

Added later. Timothy Burke does run a close second with the following entry on adopting the tactics of the right, which though written at Swarthmore at least sounds Canadian:

[T]he only way to win a rigged game is to play fair and hope that the onlookers will eventually notice who cheats and who does not.

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   paperwight 2005 03 07 at 10:55:18 am

   I wish Burke were right, but I fear he’s not.  I am also reminded that shortly after the 2004 election, he suggested that the Democratic Party pick a direction:  libertarian-lite, or Christian Democrat.  It was an interesting thesis, but pretty much guaranteed to lose, IMO.  And that kind of speculation in public is not helpful.