Saturday, March 13, 2010

What Should Canada Drink at Her Revolutionary Parties?

It's been interesting to watch the Tea Party movement unfold across the breadth and depth of the land to our south. It's fortunate for those folks that they had a signal event in their early revolutionary history that involved dumping tea into the Boston harbour, dubbed the Boston Tea Party, from which the modern day movement gets its name. It's a perfect fit.

In any case, their rallies all across the USA have produced massive turnouts, indicating a very deeply felt need to turn things around in the good old US of A. Then along comes the Coffee Party folks, determined to push back. Today, they held a rally in St. Louis. It flopped. So sad. BWHAHAHAHAHA!!

But all of this has me wondering. I sense a growing disappointment with the Harper government. We need a Canadian version of the Tea Party movement, but Canada doesn't have a seminal event of a grass-roots up revolutionary vein to rally around, let alone one involving a beverage. What could we use as a slogan and/or a drink?
There's a perfect libation for the NDP, unions, and assorted Liberal-left types. We call it Kool-aid. But for the rest of us, what choices do we have? Canadian Club or Molson Canadian? Probably fall over drunk before we could make our point. And besides, Molson Canadian is now an American brand, so not so good as a PR stunt. Canada Dry? Maybe. There's that old song about drinking Canada dry, but it would have to be reworked. Maybe we could do something with maple syrup, but, ya know, it just doesn't have much cachet out West.

Maybe we should forget about the "party" theme altogether and do something more ferocious, something that doesn't evoke the clinking of dainty porcelain cups with a hoity-toity pinky extended. Maybe something along the lines of a Nor-Wester or a Blizzard.

Or maybe we just don't have a revolutionary spirit in us. Pity that. But the leftards are still entitled to their kool-aid.

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