From the comments over at the Toronto Star regarding the departure of “Harper’s brain” from the PMO to rejoin his family in the USA:
Stevie Co. CA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Conservative & Republican Engine to Eradicate Progressive Solutions Inc. (CREEPS), seeks motivated, dogmatic candidates to champion an aggressive market strategy to discredit, besmirch, misrepresent, misinterpret and ultimately eradicate international efforts to entrench shared values that regulate trade through limits to the use of overt military force and economic coercion to shape humanity and civilization into the form of the one true spirit: Greed.
The selected candidate will be responsible for CREEPS Inc. corporate messaging and branding to advance sales of our cheap to manufacture, high profit margin line of big name consumable products such as ANXIETY, FEAR and TOTAL IGNORANCE as CREEPS continues its decades of success to crush and destroy the capacity of ailing competitors selling OPTIMISM built using expensive High Hopes processes based on inclusive collaborative methods that prop up the menace of human decency and shared values.
Should be interesting to see if the change in personnel makes any difference to the Conservative’s “marketing “ efforts…
Red Tory v.3.0.3 
Hey, RT – isn’t marketing your field? A new career in the making perhaps? You can be quite snarky when you wish to be and you’re quite good at it.
LOL
I can’t imagine “playing well” with that crowd.
Wow. It’s rare you find an intelligent, amusing comment over at The Star.
I don’t know if Muttart was all that cynical; what I think is that he is a Lindsay Nagel type; a total convert to the idea of branding and selling democracy like any other product and completely convinced that appealing to people’s individual desires (as opposed to responding to needs) in conformity with modern marketing practice was a legitimate way to martial support for the Conservatives.
But, good riddance all the same.
Don’t worry Red.
That crowd doesn’t play well with that crowd, either.
Tha pay’s not bad, though.
John — It may sound naïve, but I can’t stomach selling things that I don’t believe in. I did that for several years back in the 90s for a firm that was, in my opinion, just horrendously awful and it drove me crazy (which may explain a lot…) I’ll leave it at that because they’re also incredibly litigious.
All of my clients now are really good companies that I’m more than happy to support in their efforts to grow their respective share of the market.
I could easily sell the Conservative “brand” with no difficulty whatsoever (as could anyone with the basics of Marketing 101) — in fact, it would be dead easy (the “liberal” position is always a much harder sell) — but unfortunately I don’t believe in their objectives, have no attraction to their core ideology, and generally speaking, just don’t much like the kind of people that subscribe to it (at least the dismal legion of gruesome knobs that bloviate online), so I couldn’t see working to advance their cause.
I could easily sell the Conservative “brand”…
Funny – that exactly what Harper (un-electable as a Reform-whatever) thought before he successfully seduced the MacKay laddie and stole the Conservative brand.
Dammit. I was hoping it was Tom Flanagan that was going home to Illinois.