Once a Marine, always trolling CP presstitutes

Okay, who's been feeding hilarious nonsense to far-left Canadian Press activist Stephanie Levitz? It was pretty fun for a laugh, but sluts like her are the enemy and it probably needs to end.

Just as O'Toole courted social-conservative voters during the leadership race, so too did he solicit the support of firearms advocates.

In doing so, he leveraged his time in the military, and a personal connection — his campaign manager was Fred DeLorey, who for a time was a lobbyist for the National Firearms Association. DeLorey is now in charge of running the party's next general election campaign.

O'Toole's effort to woo firearms advocates in Quebec was credited with helping him land the victory, as party members in that province hold enormous sway in the points-based voting system the Conservative party uses.

You already know from reading this that yes, gun owners are another batch of actual conservatives with actual intelligent policy positions that O'Toole will turn his back on. This story seems to be fed directly from O'Toole's camp to lull members into a false sense of security before the March convention. Indeed, O'Toole had an interview with the CP ahead of this article.

But back to the nonsense... was it NFA director Charles Zach feeding CP the non-information to see if they'd run with it?

Many, including some who would identify as socially conservative themselves, had expressed frustration since last year's leadership race that Sloan's views on LGBTQ rights and other issues would cost the party support in a general election.

If social conservatives are considered the best-organized faction of the party, the firearms community, colloquially known in party circles as "the gunnies," come in a close second.

Charles Zach, the executive director of the National Firearms Association, said he had no specific comment on Sloan's situation.

But he said O'Toole's move does raise concerns: if he was willing to sideline Sloan, what about the gunnies?

"If that's the way that the next election campaign is going to be run by the CPC, yeah, we're worried that our expectations are not going to be on the radar," he said.

I have been involved in conservative politics for decades, as the history of this blog can attest. I was on the original NFA email lists, I own a variety of guns (that the government doesn't know about), and have been in and out of halls of power in Edmonton and Ottawa.

Nobody. Uses. "Gunnies".

It's worth noting that Zach's comments about "gunnies" isn't even in quotes. Was this something he mentioned earlier in the call? Did somebody else feed her this "tidbit"? The same one who pretended that social conservatives would be "frustrated" that a social conservative said and did social conservative things? It has to be. Outside of a single online gun retailer, this "gunnies" thing doesn't exist.

It, like social conservatism against Derek Sloan, is a bit of fake news thrown in there to see if Levitz was stupid enough to bite. Turns out she was. Good work everybody. Now cut her off. Inferior dolts like her have no business being our "insider" track to a couple lines of copy in a hit piece. Save our own hits for later, start collecting the raw info on these people in the interim.