Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper may be the best conservative in North America, especially considering the RINO status of most US Republican candidates running for president this election cycle.

Harper won conservative cred this week by proving he’s not star-struck by celebrities and is more concerned with the real work of governing his country. Proving he’d rather by his concert tickets online rather than in person from a band leader, Harper spoke out this week saying that “meeting with Bono,” the frontman of Irish rock band U2 turned political activist on worldwide poverty, was “not a priority” for his administration.

“I’ve got to say that meeting celebrities isn’t kind of my shtick, that was the shtick of the previous guy,” Harper told the Reuters News Service in a dig at his Liberal predecessor Paul Martin, who met Bono regularly. “I hope we do it at some point but my principle focus in public policies is not kind of to meet celebrities.”

Too bad this guy already has the top job in Canada, as I fear we need his type here in the US; he’d be a fine model for US Republicans to follow. Harper was kind enough to say he likes U2′s music.