Mark Twain, the renowned American author and one of the great raconteurs of the 19th Century, counselled: “When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.”
Excellent advice, it turns out, in this political season.
The author’s advice was not just about lies of commission, though, but also about what to do when your lies of convenient omission suddenly turn out to be inconvenient.
But who knew that Bland Andy — by which I mean Andrew Scheer, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and aspirant for the prime ministership of our boreal dominion — would turn out to have a trunkful of dirty little secrets, with the emphasis on little?
Of all people! This is a guy so bland he worked as an insurance broker, for heaven’s sake!
Except, of course, he didn’t.
Indeed, this turns out to be one of those dirty little secrets. He wasn’t even an insurance salesman. He was barely the guy who ran the till at the insurance store. Maybe he got to sweep up sometimes just before the broker with the keys locked the doors.
Look, you can almost forgive a politician without much of a resume in an age that’s cynical about politicians who haven’t held “real jobs,” especially when they’re promising to drain the swamp, for wanting to make whatever jobs they had before getting elected sound more important than they really were.
But insurance broker? Obviously Mr. Scheer, at least until recently, was a man of small ambition. I mean, OK, nobody would have believed him if he’d said he used to be an astronaut, but surely he could have claimed to have been a chief executive officer or an institutional entrepreneur?
Link https://albertapolitics.ca/2019/10/when-in-doubt-tell-the-truth-andy-scheers-lies-lack-ambition-more-importantly-so-do-his-excuses/?fbclid=IwAR1pzruZrlwp0Fhmhc9MNnVeRNk94c_0WG307Yt_Y3YmfAlUQeFfpGvZlIM
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