Canadians Unite! Vote Margaret Atwood's Turnip for Prime Minister of Canada

Im sure that there are some constitutional restrictions that would not favor a campaign by a vegetable. Like, isnt there a minimal age for running?

That looks more like a red cabbage, but a turnip would give Stevo a run for his money, at least in the personality dept.

And no way is that red cabbage transparent .

True, very true..

You do realize that this is satire. Don't you?

You really have to appreciate Canadian humour and Margaret Atwood.

Madam Atwood is one of my favorite authors despite her Canadian lineage and her lack of relationship to me (we share the same last name). I do understand it's satire. Timely satire at it's very best.

And if he/she happens to get voted in, you don't ever need to impeach him/her if he/she gets into political trouble. All you need to do is turn him/her into a stir fry or fresh cole slaw!

Yum!

It's obvious silliness, as Miss Atwood and all Canadians know. No one votes for Prime Minister. Whoever becomes Prime Minister has to have won their party leadership, and then has to win a seat in the House of Commons from a contested riding (it is doubtful that any Tory is going to want to give up a safe riding). Neither the Liberals nor the New Democrats have a hope in Hell right now of getting enough seats to form a government, and in any event, the turnip would have to overcome the anti-intellectualism in the conservative alliance. No one is going to vote for a turnip for the Tory leadership, let alone in a Tory riding, knowing as they would that the turnip would be intellectually superior to Harper and any Tory candidate in a safe riding, never mind a contested riding.

This is why Miss Atwood has launched this satirical campaign--she, like all Canadians, knows that turnips are just too intellectual to be popular in Tory circles.

Isn't that a rutebega?

Being an AMerican I did not realize that she was kidding. I always take political threads at their face value and try , at least initially, to do some research and surround myself with facts , in this case the facts being that can a non human or specifically, in this case, a vegetable of the cole persuasion seek high office and run an effective campaign to be elected PM ?.

I do not think that this sort of nomination is without precedent in Canada. There have been previous attempts at people placing into nomination several varieties of livestock and wildlife. However, I do think that, in the recent past, someone had entered a pumpkin into a race for high office in One of the Prairie Provinces. Prior to the election a sad event occured,The pumpkin succumbed . It had ,vegetally speaking, "peaked" too early in the campaign and suffered from a terrible case of oxidation and loss of tone. This left voters with the question of whether the said pumpkin could complete (his or her) term without serious facial suregery.

Course there was the moose in New Brunswick who was forwarded in a Provincial campaign as a write-in candidate. The moose just disappeared around September of that year. There was sufficient evidence to support charges surrounding the moose' disappearance . Coupled with a suspicious "barbecue" that was held in Blissfield N B about 3 weeks before the election, the moose name was quietly withdrawn from nomination the Monday after the barbecue.

Canadians Unite!

you realize that according to the results of a referendum you just made 49% of Quebecois angry

hope your happy

YES! {Waiting for the next high five}

To enfer with those separtists!!

Photo of campaign manager.

How I miss him now that hes passed. He made grime the new black

OOOOOH! I just got my tweet personally replied to by Margaret Atwood herself!



I'm never washing my keyboard and laptop screen again!

when i tweeted the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition (Liberal), suggesting they could eat **** and die, i didn't even get a visit from the RCMP

The Liberals have a leader ? ! ? ! ?

okay figure head, or head figure, you decide

NOBODY expects the Royal Canadian Mounted Police!

Their chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Their two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Their *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Queen.