It is hardly going to work. Artfully enhancing his photographs is not going to solve the problem. Patrick Brown looks like he looks. We have always considered his appearance to be a mixture of somewhere between adenoidal and nerdy. Adenoids can be fixed but we have to assume that being a nerd is a permanent condition.
But here we are seeing pictures of a very dapper young man in MP Patrick Brown’s favourite papers that make you do a double take. It will cause him trouble in the long run. He will try to introduce himself to somebody and the person will take a look at him and tell him: “Take off kid. I’m waiting for the real Patrick Brown.”
To clarify, we are using the term ‘nerd’ as defined as an irritating, ineffectual or unattractive person. That seems to fit, in our opinion. And while the person can be either intelligent or stupid, they can be obsessed with a non-social hobby or pursuit. That also seems to fit. It would never do for us to say anything inappropriate about the young gentleman that others have chosen to send to Ottawa.
The problem is that Patrick Brown has been our Member of Parliament for Barrie for the past eight years. This was the year that we were going to see the end of him. Who would have dreamed that he was going to try to sidestep into Ontario politics?
We have been wracking our brain over recent weeks trying to determine what a retail politician such as Brown can bring to Ontario’s Tories. He has done nothing in Ottawa other than curry favour with certain cabinet members. He has courted the anti-abortion organizations but his first love is still marathon running and playing pick-up hockey. He contributes nothing of substance. He inundates his constituents with badly produced, cheap mailings that are nothing but federal Conservative propaganda.
Have the Ontario Progressive Conservatives not had enough troubles in recent years? They had a guy like John Tory shoot himself in the foot and leave. Then they had a disaster named Timmy Hudak. And now they could end up with Brother Brown who has absolutely nothing to contribute. It certainly has been a long slippery slope for Bill Davis’ Grand Old Party.
If the vote in May actually does go his way, maybe the Photoshop experts could add a party behind that retouched picture of Brown. Not many people in the Barrie area would want to be in the picture. They know him.
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