I cannot fathom how anyone can suggest Steve Haper is anything but - TopicsExpress

I cannot fathom how anyone can suggest Steve Haper is anything but awful, however even this guy, Gordon Gibson in the G&M, who seems sympathetic to SH, offers this observation. "But every prime minister has pluses and minuses. Two things are different here. The first is an absence of friends in any depth. Very few feel affection for Mr. Harper. By contrast, when Lester Pearson, Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien had their own terrible difficulties, they were supported by many who literally loved them. Affection gives resilience. Lack of it leads to the kind of brittleness that can break."