Martha Hall Findlay still has not grasped Politics 101

I will be forthcoming and admit that I am a conservative and as such my interest in the career of Martha Hall Findlay is largely academic but sincere nonetheless. I have been following her career for some years now having acquired some interest in her vis a vis her sessions as a not infrequent interviewee and panelist on the old Michael Coren Show which use to run on the CTS network. I always found her to be sincere and articulate and well versed enough in the issues of the Canadian political scene to credibly defend her positions and likewise critique the positions of others. It is true she has had a rather sketchy political career being out of office much more than being in but I have always felt that she was on a learning curve as well as a credibility curve and that eventually her time would come. Now I am not too sure. In this latest attempt at pandering (indirectly) to the Muslim community by taking a shot at PM Stephen Harper for his consistent support of Israel, Ms. Findlay is falling into the age old trap of trying to be everything to everybody. If Ms. Findlay had read her Aesop's Fable when she was a child, about the boy, the old man and the donkey and who should ride that donkey, she would have understood that when you try to please everybody you end up pleasing nobody. A mature politician would have understood that between Israel and the Palestinians there is no moderate middle ground. You will eventually end up being forced to side with one or the other. because the players involved will have it no other way. The mature and wise politician therefore will come out in support of the most credible side of any given issue, in this case the right of Israel to exist without constant harassment from the Palestinians, the Muslim world in general and of course the Western Left. If after all these years in politics Martha Hall Findlay has not acquired enough political savvy to understand even this then I give her little hope of fulfilling her leaderships ambitions or even winning a seat. Too bad because she showed promise at one time. http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/17/hall-findlay-blasts-harpers-absolute-blind-unilateral-support-of-israel-at-all-costs/