Oh? And where is that Patrick?

I have never seen left wing editorialists like Larry where  Bill Davis is spoken of in glowing terms like those used for Stanfield (in this particular editorial) or Clark (too many times to count) 

Like the original responder you miss the point. I am not critiquing Bill Davis, quite frankly I know, or care little about him or his legacy. My finest example of a principled, tough, visionary and winning conservative would be the great Peter Lougheed, a man whose lunch bucket Joe Clark or Bob Stanfield would not be fit to carry.

The issue is the phoney praise of the left for those who they viewed as weak and eminently beatable opponents.

Your characterization of today's conservatives is a sad stereotype and simply gives proof of  the brainwashing that most of the media has resorted to in recent decades.