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Well, it's been quite a week. Harper's bought himself some time, but at a massive cost of credibility. Ontario's economy is getting worse and Quebeckers are disillusioned. You don't take power in this country without the two most-populated provinces.
It's too sdoon to tell for sure, but I'm trying to keep optimistic. The Liberals are trying to push Dion off the plank faster than before, for having committed the sin of poor video editing and failure to hire a decent courrier service. I really hope that decent judgement prevails on their part, or that Michael Ignatieff suddenly shaves his head, renounces the world, and runs off to a Buddhist monastery in Laos or something like that.
Meanwhile, Martha Hall-Findlay said on CBC's The House that this last week Conservatives have been offering highly-illegal bribes to Liberals to get them to cross the floor.
If the Liberals don't pull a David Emerson en masse, and don't chicken out, Harper's lost. And if they do, it's hard not to imagine the Liberal Party getting wiped out in favour of the NDP next election. They'd have no money, no trust from the public, no common principle to rally around. In some ways, this really is their last chance.
Poor Dion. I feel sorry for the guy -- he was the best of the three presented at the last Liberal leadership convention. And frankly, I wonder if the pundits have it backwards and he prevented an even greater collapse of the Liberal Party than would've happened under Ignatieff or Rae.
Well, it's been quite a week. Harper's bought himself some time, but at a massive cost of credibility. Ontario's economy is getting worse and Quebeckers are disillusioned. You don't take power in this country without the two most-populated provinces.
It's too sdoon to tell for sure, but I'm trying to keep optimistic. The Liberals are trying to push Dion off the plank faster than before, for having committed the sin of poor video editing and failure to hire a decent courrier service. I really hope that decent judgement prevails on their part, or that Michael Ignatieff suddenly shaves his head, renounces the world, and runs off to a Buddhist monastery in Laos or something like that.
Meanwhile, Martha Hall-Findlay said on CBC's The House that this last week Conservatives have been offering highly-illegal bribes to Liberals to get them to cross the floor.
If the Liberals don't pull a David Emerson en masse, and don't chicken out, Harper's lost. And if they do, it's hard not to imagine the Liberal Party getting wiped out in favour of the NDP next election. They'd have no money, no trust from the public, no common principle to rally around. In some ways, this really is their last chance.
Poor Dion. I feel sorry for the guy -- he was the best of the three presented at the last Liberal leadership convention. And frankly, I wonder if the pundits have it backwards and he prevented an even greater collapse of the Liberal Party than would've happened under Ignatieff or Rae.
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Date: 2008-12-06 09:32 pm (UTC)Oh Cons. When will you stop being so despicable. (An impossibility?) I know there are some bad eggs in every party who would be willing to pull stupid shit, but the Conservatives just keep doing this stuff and not getting hauled out for it. Sigh.
I don't get is how they *still* have such a large support base among swing voters. Ugh. Obviously the coalition isn't doing a good enough job making the average Canadian understand that what they are doing is both legal and perhaps better representative of what Canadians want anyways. And average Canadians don't understand how their own electoral and government system works. Yay for phail political education.
What I really want to know is if the video bungling is actually Dion's fault, or some other idiot decided to try and further make Dion look totally incompetent. As if that would help the image of the coalition. As if the general public needed more convincing. Sigh. That poor man.
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Date: 2008-12-07 01:07 am (UTC)The good news about the swing voters is that here in Quebec, at least, there's signs they're catching on. The Conservatives in Quebec have always had very different tactics than in the other provinces, and exploited the language barrier to their full advantage in softening Harper's image. Now though all his nasty Quebec-baiting in English is being translated, and he's shedding support here.
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Date: 2008-12-07 03:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-07 09:04 am (UTC)