My father is a born again politician. He was on the phones in the last Nova Scotia provincial election trying to get the New Democratic Party's vote out. He tells this story of one of the conversations he had. After introducing himself and his affiliation, he asked the woman on the other end of the telephone if she would vote for the NDP. “No” she said, “my mother, father and grandparents were Liberals, and I’m a Liberal too”. Dad, being Dad couldn’t let it go. “If your mother, father and grandparents were horse thieves, would you be a horse thief too?” “No”, she replied, “I’d be a Conservative”. How’s that for a snappy comeback?
