Rob Russo
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1,284 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Rob Russo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But um
How how old is this story, Peter?
I mean we've we've knocked around Ottawa for a long and it's about conservatives.
Conservatives, since John Deef and Baker, have eaten their own.
Um and and and they they often do it in in an inelegant way.
Um I I see I see now um uh an idi ideological purity test going on uh among conservatives to the point where um s somebody uh uh s somebody who who uh who Andrew worked with, the chief of staff, uh
uh Ian Brody for for Stephen Harper is being accused online of being uh not a conservative and being soft on Kearney, which is absolutely ridiculous.
But there are those kinds of ideological purity tests that uh that are going on now.
And I and I think that this this notion of of uh I Huey Siegel put it very, very well once when he said, I'm not a member of any
organized party.
I'm a conservative.
Um
Uh uh i i I I th I think there's something to that and there's something that seems to be there that that that that is dangerous.
Uh well you know, when conservatives ask me about this sort of thing, I say to them that the laws of political gravity apply to everybody.
There isn't any prime minister who uh doesn't leave, in some ways, diminished in public standing or diminished by the job.
It it's just a very, very difficult job.
History tends to be kinder to them and they're reassessed.
I look at what's going on with Stephen Harper now, who's considered uh a wise elder statesman uh who has uh uh great things to say about the country.
Some of that might be
Because in in some people's eyes, he's supporting a liberal.
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