“Ye reap what ye sow”

The blog seems to have gone “poof”….

LOL… nice try Scott. Steve V’s ID was blown here on your blog. And as for the “volunteer” tag on the photo, I didn’t have anything to do with putting it there… a friend took the pic for me, and posted it on the site without my knowledge… with an incorrect tag, I might add.

Andrew, you miss the point entirely. The fact is not that you kept your identity a secret. Lots of people do that.

A lot of people always knew your name was Andrew Prescott. What they didn’t know is that you were the president of the Guelph Conservative Riding Association, which is a relevant public issue now given the by-election - your views notwithstanding.

The issue - and I say this with no malice - is that you’re a total hypocrite. You still are one given what your write today.

You are complaining how you are a victim of a smear job. I don’t see how you are. All that people said is that you are the Guelph riding association president, and then wondered what relation your views are to Gloria Kovach’s. That is a legitimate public question to ask.

However, you do forget how you smeared SteveV of Far and Wide. He made comments about Gloria Kovach and you accused the Frank Valeriote team of smearing Gloria because Steve is a distant cousin of Frank.

Your critics have come after you for hiding your position. You came after Steve for his family. Big difference.

You chose to be a riding association president. It is entirely your choice. Steve can’t help being related to Frank though, and you went after him on that.

You like the Bible? So do I. Remember that line about removing the log from your eye before you remove the speck from mine.

@Christian Conservative -

Actually Andrew.. it wasn’t blown by me at all.. there was never a big deal made about it. Most of us knew who Steve was as well.. but it was you who got ticked and decided to blare it across the internet. You talk about gotcha politics? What you did was extremely uncool… so don’t go crying about the same thing happening to you.

All I can say is, if you’re the guy leading the Guelph Cons, then the Guelph Liberals won’t have anything to worry about. It’s no wonder Harper wants to preempt the byelections.. he probably has poll numbers that say you’re going to0 get crushed in Guelph and wants to delay your embarrassment.

You know if someone is going to go around trying to advertise any kind of dirt they can find, then they better make sure their side of the street is squeaky clean, and it wasn’t.

This is one of the reasons I don’t as my side of the street is not clean at all, and I’m smart enough to not start picking up my own garbage at someone else.

Also, you know, I have absolutely no desire to cruise through all the conservative blogs. They live in their world and nothing, including my comments is going to change it. I choose to not be exposed to people who think that way. I always wonder about the cons the feast on the liberal blogs linking to comments, posts etc.

I’ve seen some liberal blogs make reference to some con blogs, and in this case, when someone is holding positions within a political party where their views are important, and they are trying to hide it, then I am interested.

Why does someone have to hide their views? Oh ya, because this particular party will take wingnuts, let them work their hearts out for them, but will never let them have a public voice as to control the message. Thus, anonymity is required, and I wouldn’t never believe any pseudo-benevolent rational that was given.

In the end, I could care less. People think they way they do, it’s just when they get into everybody else’s business I have a problem.

The situation that this is worth comparing to is that of the Calgary Grit, Dan Arnold. For a while, he posted anonymously, and yet he clearly had an insider position when he posted his analysis and, more importantly, he remained a respected blogger. Why is that?

It’s very likely that he got a tremendous pass because he handles himself in such an even-handed, almost non-partisan fashion. It’s very clear that he was speaking for himself, even though he wore his party affiliation on his sleeve. He wasn’t afraid to criticize his own party when he needed it.

And possibly there was the fact that he chose to reveal his own identity, and his own connections within the Alberta Liberal party.

I can’t really think what the problem was with Christian Conservative choosing to keep secret the fact that he was so high up in the Guelph campaign. A lot of people post anonymously, after all. However, I think CC would have saved himself some trouble, and possibly increased traffic to his blog if he had been more forthcoming in his connections. Not only would he have vanquished the perception of sniping from under cover, the potential for an insider’s take on the Guelph campaign could have drawn out the political junkies, and possibly even helped Kovach in her election. People like it when a campaign speaks to voters, unscripted.