This week, I stumbled across another piece of garbage sent through the mail by a Conservative MP.
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This one featured a "pop quiz". It asked how long Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff was away from Canada.
On the flip side, it contained the Conservative slogan "Ignatieff: Just visiting".
There was not a word about public policies, plans, or issues--just a vicious personal attack on the Opposition leader.
I wonder what thoughtful conservatives think of these tactics, which are so typical of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Harper seems to think that if you treat the public like they're idiots, you have a better chance of getting reelected.
It's time for people like Senator Hugh Segal, former federal cabinet ministers John Crosbie and John Fraser, and former prime ministers Kim Campbell and Joe Clark to stand up and condemn this nonsense.
Harper is debasing our political culture. As we've seen in the United States, whenever this occurs, there's a corresponding decline in political literacy.
That's likely followed by reckless policies that can bankrupt the nation and lead it into perpetual war.
It's time for conservatives to say enough is enough. The ends don't always justify the means.
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Nobody can "shame" Harper. Harper has no idea how to behave. He needs Ignatieff around to tell him how to be Prime Minister, and how to behave properly. Summer vacation, Ignatieff's gone, and Harper shoots himself in the foot twice.
Ignatieff is just visiting Canada.
What is wrong with that message??
It is a a well known fascist election tactic to keep as many voters at home as possible - they're all a buncha crooks tactic. The 'She's just not ready" series of commercials worked extremely well for Gordo's Neocons although Carole James' refusal to respond in kind made them more effective than any fascist could have dreamed.
By creating as much doubt as possible into Dear Michael's motives, competence, and history then amplifying it with your fascist evening news outlet at Canwest-Global (aka Fox News) the already disinterested voter sees no point and just stays home.
The old wisdom that "politicians are like diapers they need to be changed often and for the same reason" no longer applies when the media is almost one hundred percent owned by Neocons.
seth
Anything that keeps Liberals out of power is automatically worthwhile; so sorry you haven't figured that out yet.
If you think this is one-sided, wake up. Its a common tactic used by all parties whereby MPs in safe seats send mail to ridings the party believes it can win next time around.
Save your outrage and do a little research before you spew typical, banal anti-Conservative garbage.
Let me use a football analogy ... The offense basically has two weapons--rushing (postivie ads) and passing (negative ads). A coach would be a total idiot to restrict his plays to one or the other. He understands that, when passing, there might be an interception. That is the other edge of the passing sword.
I suspect what is REALLY bugging the anti-Harper crowd is not the CONTENT of these ads, but that they are being run OUTSIDE the writ period. If so, admit it, and then have the debate revolve around that aspect.
Is it possible to have a copy e-mailed to me to circulate?
Joe.
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Nothing wrong with asking that question, many don't know and it is pertinent to the office of PM in my mind, I want a PM loyal to Canada not one dropping by for a golden pension promised him by the Lib insiders to get him to come up here because even he is better than the known losers that sit with him in Parliament on the opposition side.
Its time the MSM got over their anti Harper / Conservative agenda...forget the Liberal talking points...lets get real, forget the spin and look at the real facts....Things alwayslook a little different when the facts are looked at..
I felt that they accurately portray the state of the Liberal party in Canada.
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First the Liberals held a Seinfeld convention. Now with the demand for universal EI standard off the table the transformation is complete. The Liberals stand for nothing. They are Canada's Seinfeld Party
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Robert McNamara may have been a highly educated intellect, but his policies gave us the disaster that was the Vietnam War.
The lesson: Sometimes great intellectuals just don't make great leaders.
That's something Canadians might want to remember when judging the merits of a certain ex-Harvard professor now leading the federal Liberals.
Oh please. If politics is too tough for you, take up knitting.
They are all fully aware concerning the medicinal (and every other) benifits of marijuahna yet they prefer to commit anti-GoD actions against the populous, for TEMPORARY material wealth.
Remove traitors from public office and public services. Vote, for anyone not Corporate Sponsored.
Can Harper be trusted to do the right thing for Canada or the right thing for Harper? I do believe Harper views them differently.