{"id":10872,"date":"2021-08-25T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10872"},"modified":"2021-09-06T19:40:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T02:40:33","slug":"if-shamelessness-is-the-key-to-success-in-politics-otoole-is-looking-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10872","title":{"rendered":"If shamelessness is the key to success in politics, O\u2019Toole is looking good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Globe and Mail<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Andrew Coyne<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Nice guys, in Canadian politics, do not finish last: they do not even finish. Our political history is littered with the corpses of decent, principled leaders who never got a sniff at power, but were gutted and filleted by their less-encumbered opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parties in opposition tend to burn through one or two of the decent, principled types while they figure out what they stand for, before at last realizing that what they really stand for is power. Whereupon they promptly find someone sufficiently shameless to get them there. . .  .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Conservatives must be thrilled to find Erin O\u2019Toole showing promise of the requisite shamelessness. . . <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/article-if-shamelessness-is-the-key-to-success-in-politics-otoole-is-looking\/\">continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe and Mail Andrew Coyne Nice guys, in Canadian politics, do not finish last: they do not even finish. Our political history is littered with the corpses of decent, principled leaders who never got a sniff at power, but were gutted and filleted by their less-encumbered opponents. Parties in opposition tend to burn through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10872\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If shamelessness is the key to success in politics, O\u2019Toole is looking good&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,32,4,511],"tags":[4059,293],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-10872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-canada","category-commentary","category-society-politics","tag-erin-otoole","tag-referral"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>If shamelessness is the key to success in politics, O\u2019Toole is looking good - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"O\u2019Toole&#039;s artful duplicity allows him to fool his own supporters and his opponents. 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