Why People Leave Canada

Heather Mallick has done it again. Another marvelous column spewing copious amounts of irrational anti-American (most particularly of the anti-Republican variety) sewage into the streets Canada.

As she smugly describes anybody with a conservative bent using terms like "unread" or "stupid", I can't help but wonder if she's not suffering from a case neanderphobia. Perhaps her irrational fear of simpletons might stem from the deep seated fear that she herself is a neanderthal. So much time is spent trying to assert her own intelligence at the expense of those who disagree with her that it would seem she's more than a little afraid that her own mental inadequacies might be exposed.

Just look at the way she belittles Governor Sarah Palin in a recent column: "The Republicans are going to parade a tiny old hateful man named McCain who has to be told how many homes he owns (it's now up to 10) and who just named the political equivalent of his local school crossing guard as his vice-presidential candidate. There's Sarah Palin in a rain slicker with her little stop sign."

Honestly: what the heck was that even supposed to mean? And how much more wrongly could Heather Mallick have called it? For those who saw the convention (thanks for offering to take a bullet for us, Heather, but after listening to your drivel now for some time, we'd rather see what actually happens than just take your word for it), Sarah Palin was brilliant! So much so that her opponents (those who had just spent five days trying to destroy a woman they all at once said "they didn't know anything about" but somehow had enough evidence at hand to attempt to discuss things like how she was an unfit mother if she dared to hold public office) were scrambling to respond when she was finished.

She showed courage, clear vision, intellect, style and - sorry, Heather, this one will be difficult for you to see, 'cause you've got to have it to know it - class.

Let's face it, Heather, here's what you hate: you hate a man who has spent the bulk of his life serving others, even when that might mean losing his own life. You hate a woman who has character and courage, achieves at a level beyond the norm, and has made something of herself without sacrificing femininity. Successful women aren't supposed to look like that, right? Not with a husband and children. Not with a conservative point of view. Not with children she refused to abort in spite of the challenges it would bring to her life.

No, that doesn't look like your sort of strong woman. She shaves her legs and plucks her facial hair! So she must be a crossing guard in a rain slicker. If that's all a self-made governor is.

Wow, Heather. We're very impressed with all that "edu-ma-cation" you've managed to secure for yourself. Quite clearly, you've spent more time in esoteric sociology textbooks than in anything resembling the real human world.

Here's a thought: why don't you consider running for office? Why, I'm sure the public will clamor for your sort of outdated thinking. Most of us can't wait to turn back the clock forty years, burn our bras, drop out and tune in.

Or maybe not. Maybe it's just this sort of "poor Canada suffers because America is so evil" kind of drivel you love to exude that so many of the brightest and best minds are simply leaving the country. What's that called again? Oh, yeah: the "brain drain." Perhaps it's not all stupid south of the border after all.