I’m looking forward to seeing Deeyawn stumble all over his tongue, but I don’t hold out much hope that the MSM is going to show much of it; that’s where bloggers are REALLY going to have an effect in this campaign.
So we’re off and running eh?
Might as well get it over with before the US election reaches a fever pitch. If the McCain/Palin ticket polls favorably during our election as indicated here: http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1548
(Drudge Report link)
The “Obama” factor may not be as influencing as some think or wish.
Speaking of the big “O”, CNN had their special on meeting the real MaCain and Obama. Obama’s story is an interesting one, but when it gets to his political career, something becomes obvious, he is an opportunist. Picks the elections he can win, or thinks he can win. No substance, says what he has to say to get where he wants to go.
Man, did you see Dion kill the english language??? Wow, like a lamb to the slaughter!
Canada Now In Election Campaign, Expected To Be Nasty http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/09/canada-now-in-election-campaign.html
I’m already on it…
Just watch me chew up and spit out, between now and October 14th, the Far-Leftist Opposition’s stupid utterances (and that’s all they have going for them).
They’re going to lie, cheat, lie…
And they won’t get away with it. Neither will the MSM.
I’ve taken off my gloves, because so has the enemy.
I think the key to a majority isn’t Dion’s crappy English, but Ignatieff’s very good English. He’s the guy they’re going to drag out to interpret Dion’s mutterings, and he’s got something of Paul Martin in him. Not the dithering but the hyperbole. Watch him for a ‘beer and popcorn’ moment. It’ll come any day now. Once it does, we win.
I think the most interesting part of this election will be watching the number of imaginative ways the press protects and promotes this socialist franco ninny quebec twinky.
I also wonder if the National Post will stay neutral in the face of an election knowing the left leanings of it’s owners.
CTV/MSM is a propaganda machine for the Librano$. CTV/MSM is perpetrating a fraud on its website.
The proof is here: http://tinyurl.com/6mp4kh (ctv).
CTV quotes Citoyen Dion: *”go see GreenShift.ca” with a live link embedded within the quote.
However, the link on CTV’s website goes to: http://www.thegreenshift.ca/default_e.aspx.
Att: Jennifer Wright! Proceed with your lawsuit against the Librano$.
Jennifer Wright of Green Shift(TM) is being shafted by the Librano$.
Citoyen Dion say,
*””Go see GreenShift.ca and see what it represents for your family,” Dion said, portraying the plan as part of the 21st century economy and crucial to fighting dangerous climate change.”
Liberals are thieves, liars, frauds, charlatans.
I think the behaviour of the MSM will be interesting. They are all thoroughly entrenched in the Liberal ideology – which sets Canada up as a protected non-participant in the global world. And remember, the Liberal system is based on a class structure. There is the elite professional class who govern. And the peasants who drink beer and eat popcorn.
Canadian world participation is reduced, in the Liberal perspective, to kindly admonishments from our superior morality, to the heathen-who-compete, who go to war, who confront etc.
The fact that this mindset developed as the Canadian economy became a suburban strip mall of the US economy – with Canadians merely setting up franchises or manufacturing parts in industries owned by the US or foreign investors…doesn’t occur to these people.
Our mainstream media ‘pundits’ have never examined the Canadian economic and political infrastructure, never thought about the problems of a Canada which doesn’t economically compete but simply sends over 85% of its exports to only one country…which is switching to China and India; never thought about the need to develop our own innovative products, to compete in the global economy…etc.
And how is the mainstream media going to deal with the fact that they want this postWWII isolationism to continue, despite the fact that the world economy is now global, and Canada can’t remain as the ‘bedroom community’ of the US.
How is the media going to deal with the fact that they want the Liberals in, because the Liberal mode is Big Government which hands out lots of taxpayer money to the elite class. But, they don’t want Dion because they feel that he can’t get them back into power. So, they want him to lose the election.
My guess is that the MSM will try for a minority CPC government. They don’t want Harper to get a majority; they want Dion to lose and be replaced by Rae.
Now, watch how the MSM go about this agenda. Watch the diehard Liberals, such as Jim Travers, Jane Tabers, Gloria Galloway, Newman, Mansbridge, Oliver, etc, etc…work with this agenda.
Of course, what none of them think about is what is good for the country and the people. Their focus is only on their upper class well-being.
Watch out, Ontario and especially Quebec will deliver numerous new blue seats and I’m not talking Duceppe blue.
Duceppe’s best friends (The Librano$) will be slaughtered everywhere in Canada with Toronto still being the best place for them but even some corners within the 416 will be fierce battle grounds and some will be lost to the Conservatives if an NDP/Lib/Green three way for the Leftards occurs.
Jack Layton at this time, has the best chance to form the official opposition which I don’t mind…At least they are consistant in their moonbatery and not oppertunistic whores like the LibranoS.
Get set for a very nasty campaign (Also the PM’s prediction).
Who’s the better leader as the mainframe but a 4 way attack with: “Can’t give Harper a majority” will be repeated ad nauseum and screamed by all MSM.
Most Canadians don’t want an election, so it will be interesting to see who turns out to vote. I would think this would favour the Conservatives as we tend to be more grassroots in nature plus our values certainly include doing your civic duty.
I am praying no Quebec soldiers (or any others!) are killed during the election. So far the Western provinces and the Maritimes have had the brunt of the casualities. I wonder if the Taliban knows we are in election mode.
The Grits need to find some environmental crisis: selling water to the U.S., nuclear plants being built to process the oil sands, more deaths from bad meat.
I also pray no high level Conservative and please none of you bloggers are going to be caught making fun of Dion’s accent. Quebeckers don’t like his intellectual French but they don’t appreciate people making fun of someone trying to speak English. Merci à l’avance!
We have to call the media on every issue they falsely portray Harper on. We have to get out to the public the fact the media are an arm of the Liberal Party, have been for decades, it’s inbred.
The blogs will play a big role in this election. Truth will get out.
Last election, when Harper was zeroing in on Majority, a frenzied, desperate Martin made a second flit across the country spewing lies and damned lies to prevent it. He may have influenced the ill-informed and prevented Harper’s majority but he lost big time.
If the people of Canada can be fooled by fools into voting Liberal, our country is in a worse state than ever in it’s history.
Obviously, the Conservative election strategy is Harper vs. Dion. The brands are secondary. The desired swing voter response is “I cannot vote for such a buffoon (Dion), he’s an embarrassment.”
Whether the Conservatives get a majority, or a stronger minority, this election is financially damaging for the Liberals. Their leaders are still in debt from their last leadership race. The party itself hardly has the money to fight this election. And upon losing, they’ll have to have another leadership race. They’ll be in disarray. And Harper can govern against a lame duck opposition.
However, with a majority, Harper can bring the wrecking ball to Ottawa. The Liberal collusion between the various forms of government must be destroyed and the the filthy rot exorcised. As it stands, Canadian federal politics is hardly a democracy. After 80 years of almost unbroken rule, it is at least Liberal collusion, whether they are leading the government or not. The senate, CBC, supreme court and elections Canada stand as proof of that – undermining the Conservatives, the democratically elected government, every chance they get.
This in itself is criminal. Canada is not their own personal play thing. Democracy must rule. My vote must matter.
“Do u tinks it’s eezy speeek in anglich?”
Hey Nicola, it’s not like the French never make fun of english people trying to speak french…I am a fluent bilingual born in Quebec and remember on several occasions French mocking English, not done maliciously but still not a very civilized way. Certainly did’nt encouraged them to get better.
The clear meme of the moment is Harper wants majority….pregnant pause….and smile, Dion is underestimated, CTV syas that his integrit may yet shine through.
media want a horse race, at a basic level so they try to level the playing field. Watch how this reorganizes itself over the next couple of weeks. Harper is in for some early flak, kind of normal since he is in the lead.
Should the Dion “juggernaut” start to show seams and tatters then the story will eventually be about that, it will start early in Quebec that the Liberal machine is gone. The press aren’t stupid and if it is clear that the Liberals are going down in flames (who wants to ride on that plane by the way?) then it will become clear. I expect to hear calls of media bias from the Liberals sometime before the end of September, perhaps within 2 weeks.
Once again, my riding, thornhill, will be a swing riding. It will probably go to Peter Kent, the question is will it be close, or will it be a solid win. Solid win likely means con majority, close, less than 1,00 viotes, likely means a minority or a nail biiter till every last riding reports.
Watch the shift in coverage….the beginning will be very anti con…..if you want to know how desperate the Liberals are, wait for the abortion question. The earlier it comes out the more desperate they are. My suspicion is they will wait, like the last two times till the final week of the election to try to catch the cons, any con, saying “when we get a majority we will ban/restrict abortions”. If the cons are smart they will say it is not a conservative priority to address this issue in their next mandate.
It will happen though, there will be some breathless reporting about it. But it will be hard to get the image of a Dion disatster out of their minds. If you thought Martis campaign was bad, just wait, the wheel on the horsecart wont just go flat, it will come off. They have no money and the children are in charge….just wait, it may be a literallost tire or it may be a figurative one, but there will be a major incident that says the Liberals arent ready to govern….the press will be unable to ignore it.
Now if I was Nostrodomus I would put all of these into cool sounding quatrains….
This is one Quebecer who’s wishing for a Conservative Majority. Go Harper.
British Columbia- I think the Campbell carbon tax will send voters towards the CPC. Emerson is one of the co-chairs and will also help the CPC in BC. A lot of past LPC supporters will go either Green or NDP. CPC 21/36 seats
Alberta- 28/28 Greens to garner the highest gain in percent share of popular vote. Hello Ezra in Medicine Hat!
Saskatchewan- Ralph Goodle gets to go into the vineyard and orchard business with other Libranos. David Orchard is PMSH’s trojan horse in the Liberal party in Harper’s quest to “smash” the LPC (Tom Flanagan). Orchard will make the Libs look like a bunch of quacks and they will lose their seriousness as a credible, national party. CPC 13/14 & Ground Zero of LPC self implosion. Someone should google mark the spot where Orchard gave his acceptance speech and update Wiki. 😉
Manitoba- The Winnepeg area will be good for the NDP, also MB got extra revenue from the re-worked equalization formula based on 50% renewables. CPC 8/14 seats.
Ontario- With the announcement of Buzz Hargrove’s succesor, Ken Lawenza, and his proclamation that they will use every opportunity to dissuade people for voting CPC, look for a backlash from other middle inome earners who are also struggling with the recent economic slowdown. McGuinty seems to be willing to bury the hatchet with the CPC (Maybe McGuinty has leader of the LPC aspirations) and the feds are/will spend big there over the next few years. Co-mingle that with the CPC rollout of costs to Rural Ontarians from Dion’s Green Shift, CPC 46/106 seats
Quebec- Bernard Lord is another co-chair of the CPC election committee and will be spending a considerble amount of time in Que. Significant takeaway from the Bloc, but will also steal some closer ridings from the LPC due to the NDP/LPC/Green split that is going to occur. CPC 34/75 seats
New Brunswick- Again, Bernard Lord. Nuclear Energy, LNG and other energy intensive/creative industries, Green Shift=No Votes CPC 6/10 seats
Nova Scotia- Way too many Che t-shirts seen in Halifax during the warmer months. Bill Casey “Maverick” factor along with MacDonald’s appearance to be capitulating to Harper vs. Danny Williams’ appearance of standing up to Harper, like Bill Casey. McKay wins and I think Gerald Keddy gets to hold onto his seat. NDP thrive here. NS says no to Lizzie May. CPC 2/11 seats.
PEI- Welcome to Ottawa Gail Shea. CPC 1/4
NL- *sigh*
Little rumour Ret. General Rick Hillier will run for the CPC. If so, they win his seat and may be even able to hang onto Fabian Manning’s seat. If former minister in Danny William’s cabinet, Tom Osborne, decides to run he might get in as well. With Hearn and Norm Doyle retiring, there is a good possibility of the CPC being shutout. For now CPC 0/7 seats. If Hillier, Manning and Osbourne run, CPC 3/7 seats.
Yukon, NWT & Nunavut- Harper wins Nunavit from NDP, land claims, national park, control of energy resource, Northern Defense spending. etc CPC 1/3 seats.
Currently, CPC
Atlantic Canada- 9/31 seats (No gain/loss)
NWT, Yukon, Nunavit- 1/3 seats (1 seat gain)
QUE- 34/75s seats (23 seat gain)
ON- 46/105 seats (5 seat gain)
Prairies- 49/56 seats (3 seat gain)
BC- 21/36 seats (2 seat gain)
Quebec is the King maker.
Majority 155/308
CPC 160/308
LPC-73/308
NDP- 41/308
Bloc-31/309
Ind- 3/308
“Now, watch how the MSM go about this agenda. Watch the diehard Liberals, such as Jim Travers, Jane Tabers, Gloria Galloway, Newman, Mansbridge, Oliver, etc, etc…work with this agenda.”
Behold the awesome predictive powers of ET: the media will be somewhat anti-Conservative in the upcoming election. Wow, what incredible insight, thanks for sharing.
Not much else to say: Harper will win a minority, the fake conservatives who oppose him will probably jump back on the bandwagon once victory looks imminent, watch for it. A majority is out of the question and always has been, stop talking about it.
Longshot prediction: something like the following scenario will occur: a House of Commons staffer will make an accusation of sexual harassment or even rape against a sitting Conservative MP. A bombshell like that is the only chance the Liberals have got, they know it, and are not above doing something like that.
The key consideration in this election is how successful the CPC is in explaining to seniors, students, immigrants, and low income Canadians that this Green Shift plan of the Liberals will hurt them most of all, in the form of higher prices on everything, especially heating their homes and transportation, with little discernible benefit to the environment.
Immigrants, for example, have bigger families than native born Canadians, according to Statistics Canada, meaning among other things bigger houses to heat and power, and bigger vehicles to drive. They’ll only hurt themselves by voting for the party they have to this point overwhelmingly supported.
Same for seniors and students and, well, it is difficult to identify a cohort that will be better off economically under the ever-shifting Green Shift.
If you want to raise your game this election, and believe me, most of you need to, very badly, then you need to read everything you can find at punditsguide.ca, it is an excellent resource.
Idiot Taber’s first comment on Question Period:
On Harper’s visit with the GG, Taber said, “I expected him to walk over there, but instead he drove. The Liberals (me) are already commenting on his carbon footprint.”
Thus, the unbelievable stupidity of the Liberal press begins.
nicola – I think the mocking of Dion’s terrible accent is really a comment on his total inability to speak English. Never mind the accent.
And since Canada is 80% English, then, setting oneself up as their leader is arrogant. It fits into that old class elitism where indeed, in England, the upper class spoke French. And before that, Latin. As you also note, Dion’s French isn’t Quebecois French’ but that of France – a very different French. I know people from France who simply cannot understand Quebecois.
Again, the Liberals are a class-based political system, viewing the governance of a country as something necessarily done by the elite professionals, and the population as ‘governed peasants’. That comes out, even without intention, in Dion’s comments and behaviour.
Nice post, irwin daisy. I fully agree; we have a Liberal collusion govt in Ottawa – which includes the civil service, the judiciary, senate, the media.. This cabal operates as an elite governance within the Montreal-Ottawa corridor. They have no knowledge of the rest of the country – who are viewed – as shown by Dion – as merely sources of money and sources of votes.
cpc pick ups:
2 in BC
1 in MB
12 (give or take one or two) in each of Ont and Que
3 in Atlantic
for a majority
legacy moralist – I”m not predicting, I’m describing. Do you know the difference?
The media are currently strongly anti-Conservative; they’ll continue this way. That’s a description. Not a prediction.
Yes, I agree that the Liberals are not ‘above’ malicious and fraudulent smear campaigns. They’ve been busy doing that with Harper for the last two years. So what’s new?
And I agree, the Green Shift is a Green Shaft. It says nothing at all about helping the envnt. Merely taxing ’emissions’ (which Dion ignorantly calls ‘pollution’) and handing the money back to taxpayers. As a bribe.
And particularly to the lowest income. heh – a two-income family with a gross income of 20,000 per year! And one with 40,000! That’s his focus. He’s obviously not going after the latte crowd who spend that much on their new SUVs.
The problem of course is that this tax doesn’t stop the ‘pollution’. And Dion NEEDS the pollution to continue. Otherwise, he has no income. To give back to those ‘taxpayers’. So, he can’t allow these emissions to stop. Otherwise there’s no money.
Oh – and there’s NOTHING in his 48 page plan about the envt. Nothing about using the money to develop new technologies for those industries. Nothing about low cost loans to install the new tecnology..WHEN IT IS DEVELOPED. You see, it hasn’t been developed. It takes time and money to develop new technologies.
And of course, Dion grossly underestimates the enormous cost of his plan. The companies will either leave Canada or increase prices and pass it all off on to the consumer. All of it.
Incredible what a dumb plan it is. Just 48 pages. You don’t get into the outline until page 30..(before it’s all rhetoric and pictures)..and then, all it outlines is how much you’ll get back in taxes. Nothing about the envt. Nothing about how much costs will increase. Incredible.
The UBC Election Stock Market (decision market) will be opening up tomorrow. It is a money market. http://esm.ubc.ca/
Hmm, this could get interesting:
– Dion is already accusing Harper/CPC of being “ideological.” Apart from the fact most Canadians (beer and popcorn set) don’t actually know, or care, what that term means, that accusation, IMO, usually refers to the accuser.
– No chance for NDP to be Official Opposition; not because the opportunity isn’t there, but because their inept leader is insisting on going after Harper and leaving Dion unscathed. This will allow Dion to bleed off some of NDP big city vote, with no opportunity for dippers to take Tory votes.
– majority CPC possible but it will take some doing. Their best chance is an intercenine battle for votes on left leaning parties (ie-all but CPC). I don’t think that will happen, so some major gaffe from Dion will be necessary, assuming none from Tories.
– Dion wants election to be about economy, IOW he’s repudiating his main plank policy. He seems to be in denial that Tories seen as best stewards, rather he goes to power orientation that bad news for government is good news for his party. BTW, Libs have provided Ms Wright of Green Shift (the real deal that is) with compelling evidence in her action against the LPC by creating “label confusion.” Not a very smart move, one the Tories are sure to exploit.
– No Obama factor whatsoever in this election. It would have been worse if election after US, because Obama will lose POTUS campaign.
– Sure, MSM will be hostile to Harper, at first. The incumbent should expect this treatment, though MSM will take it much farther than they ever did against Grits. By end Sep, they will make nice when it’s clear Harper is in majority territory, basically giving up their fantasy of Grit rebirth, and perks for them. CBC, OTOH, will go down with the ship, with guns blazing.
– Regionally – Grits will get a s**t kicking in BC. Look for Layton to have different message there, against carbon taxes, opposition to which has vaulted their provincial leader into the lead. That is unless Layton is a piker tactician, which he is showing already.
– if Rick Hillier decides to run for CPC, he will win riding easily, and possibly position other Nfld Tory wins, taking advantage of Green Shaft Shift
– in debates, all participants will go after Harper, and he will take them all on, for no advantage. If they go too far and launch into Bush-light, 9/11 inside job crap, and viewers perceive media bias, look out. Harper will mop floor with them. It’s suicide, IMO, to underestimate Harper’s intellect and cunning.
Let’s talk Gardacil.
CBC had a very interesting discussion. I sensed only mild Harper dissing,however, the facts were coming thru.
The 3 million for the vaccine appeared suddenly in Feb 2007, shortly after one of PMSH’s former advisors became an employee for Merck pharmaceuticals.
The health experts on the panel discourage a misleading message that cervical cancer can be wiped out with the vaccine.Screening is the best prevention.
Interesting observation: when the vaccine was mandated in the states it was observed that the Christian right balked, not for the message of promoting promiscuity, but for the government interference, usurping parental authority. The left re-acted with “the Christians are against this so we are for it”(No surprise).
I work in health care. I do not trust pharmaceuticals. Powerful money there.
As a CPC supporter I would like more open discussion on the vaccine.We haven’t heard enough.
Discuss?
ET: “My guess is that the MSM will try for a minority CPC government. They don’t want Harper to get a majority; they want Dion to lose and be replaced by Rae.”
My guess is that you’re correct ET, though I wonder what mechanisms the MSM could use to accomplish this degree of precision in their manipulation of the electorate. The MSM seems like too much of a blunt instrument to be capable of such finesse.
The MSM didn’t really learn its lesson from the last election, didn’t allow itself to accept that things aren’t the same anymore as they were during the Liberal regime. The MSM is still in denial, by and large.
This means that they don’t realize that The People, that means you and me, now compete with the MSM when it comes to the dissemination of information and opinion during an election campaign.
No longer will the elitist, big-money, controlled-by-powerful-leftists MSM have a monopoly on election coverage.
The new reality, thanks to the internet and all the cost-efficient possibilities it opened up in terms of civilian blogs and their comments threads, non-MSM news websites, etc, is that politicians and the MSM must at all times realize that it’s highly unlikely that they’ll get away with lies, evasions, obfuscations, etc., as they used to be able to do.
Layton is launching his campaign in Harper’s riding. His provincial campaign slogan is: Alberta (heart) Jack Layton.
And this jackass is calling Harper a liar?
Socialist utopians have no place in real world politics.
I heard Deyawn say the same thing Mazz 2 – I was flabbergasted. He is being sued for stealing the greenshift name – and he announces the theft on TV?!! Just how dumb is this leader of the Liberanos?
Irwin Daisy, Komrade Jackov, in calling Harper a liar, is merely projecting his own behavioral tendencies as is natural for all Leftist radicals.
To be a little vulgar, sorry, but you see, when Leftists accuse non-Leftists of stuff, they’re really basically blaming others when they themselves fart, so that people will think that the other guy farted. In this case, Jackov knows that he himself is a liar, but he tries to make others think that it’s Harper who’s lying.
So it begins….
Dion attacks Harper for holding a “conservative ideology”….Observers are shocked.
Travers mouths Dion’s “starkly different vision” meme….Observers are shocked.
Kady O Malley is pissed about getting up early on a Sunday….still manages to make a reference to “American style politics”…..Harper has a press conference….gasp…..in a rose garden. Patriotic Canadians are shocked.
Jack Layton makes reference to “change meme”..invokes the spirit of the Obamessiah. This reference to “American style politics” is acceptable. Nobody is shocked.
I swear the left desperately needs an imagination transplant.
Syncro
Jennifer Wright’s website here: http://www.greenshift.ca/index.html
Send a message of support to Jennifer Wright: info@GreenShift.ca
“The Liberal Party of Canada tries to discount our trademark by saying that it is a common term, widely in use throughout the world
We knew this was not true and have performed regular internet searches to monitor and prevent it from becoming so but a Montreal-based media monitoring and analysis company (Influence Communication), completed an exhaustive 12-month scan of all newspapers (14 000+) in 159 countries to discover that ‘green shift’ as a term has been encountered in only 62 occasions; this from over 15 million articles/editorials directly or indirectly related to the environment/climate change…etc. As they said to us, “this appears to contradict recent affirmations expressed by certain political leaders”.”
Layton’s starting in Alberta? Dumb.
Grind a grit, true as that is about mocking english who try and speak french, this is the kind of thing that if folks were to mock Dion’s speaking style, game over in Quebec, and possibly game over to a CPC government.
This from Kinsella: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080906/fed_elxn_080906/20080906?hub=TopStories “The New Democrats have taken their campaign bus for a test spin and the Conservatives are running election ads, but the Liberals are scrambling to fix up a Boeing 737 made in 1979.
The Air Inuit plane is not expected to be ready until near the end of the week. Conservatives say it’s a blunder on the part of Liberal Leader Stephane Dion.
“I think this underscores his weak leadership and what a risk he would be as prime minister. He can’t even lead his own party,” said Conservative MP Jason Kenney.”
ET has it bang on, re: a bigger minority. Much as I would love a majority, I can’t see it happening. 140-145 seats, maybe, but not 155.
trev – I’m not saying that the result of the election will be a ‘bigger minority’. I have no predictions but of course, I hope for a CPC majority.
I’m saying that the Liberal media are hoping for a CPC minority. They want Dion to lose so that they can get rid of him and get Rae in as leader of the Liberals.
Dion has already started to stumble – badly.
There’s his new carbon guzzling and emitting campaign plane; So much for his environmental agenda.
there’s his telling everyone to go to ‘GreenShift.ca’, when the Liberal Party is trying to say that the name is THEGreenShift; and they are being sued by the legitimate company of GreenShift.ca.
There’s his attack on Harper for holding a ‘Conservative ideology’. Well, what else is the leader of the Conservative party supposed to hold, other than an ideology of conservativism? Just as Dion’s ideology is Liberalism.
There’s his name-calling, where he defines Harper’s view as: “narrow-minded, right-wing agenda.” This is a CONCLUSION; Dion has to provide the REASONS for such a conclusion. Otherwise it’s pure empty drive-by smears.
Again, Dion points out that Harper set up a law mandating an election every four years. This is a limit of governance, not a minimum term. And, if Dion really accepted this law, then why, why, why, has he (and the MSM) been talking endleslly over the past two years of nothing but ‘When’s the election’? If Dion accepted the four year as a set term, then, why didn’t he – when asked when he would ‘bring down Harper’s govt’..why didn’t he reply: “We must go for the full four years’.
But he didn’t. Never. He never mentioned the four years before. Nor did the MSM who has also been asking, endlessly – when’s the election. They never said a word about..’Not for four years’.
Dion says that Harper has brought Canada’s economy ‘to the brink of recession’. No, he hasn’t. Canada is a part of the global economy and what affects that globe, affects us. Dion’s green shaft will, however, move Canada into an economic disaster.
shamrock – I think that Layton’s plan to ignore the Liberals and go after Harper is rather clever. He’s effectively saying that the NDP is the official opposition. Dion and the Liberals literally don’t exist. That’s clever.
Now, whether it will work out in fact rather than fancy…But, if he spends his time going after Dion, then, he’s setting the NDP party up as a choice between the Liberals-and-the-NDP. Instead, he’s setting it up as a choice between the Conservatives-and-the-NDP. Clever.
“If you want to raise your game this election, and believe me, most of you need to, very badly” – Legacy Moralist
You obviously consider yourself intelligent and informed. I consider you supercilious. Not to mention dull- witted.
What is the biggest story of the year?
Obama? The Chinese Olympics? Sara Palin? Nope.
Danny Williams shutting his pie hole should be the biggest story of the decade.
It should be on the front page of Time and Scientific American.
Dion’s green plan will pull billions out of the Nfld economy but Williams hasn’t uttered a peep.
What force of nature could keep his gigantic ego and gigantic mouth in check?
He’s got a secret side deal with the liberals.
Why hasn’t the MSM even asked Danny about it?
I’d like to hear someone on a radio phone in show or interview ask either of them point blank if they have a side deal.
Make them either admit it or deny it.
The media in this country are apparently great at sniffing out who has a hidden agenda and who doesn’t, in fact that seems to be the only thing they look for.
How could they be missing anything this obvious?
Oh, wait, it wasn’t in the liberal press release.
Just who are you RCGZ? And why do you pass judgement on ‘us’ so harshly?
ET, the , problem with Layton going after Harper, beyond the normalcy of attacking the incumbent, is that he is trying to draw votes from the CPC. That simply won’t happen; by ignoring Dion he is allowing a possible bleed off on the left.
I doubt voters will see the sublety of his position. Only the most sophisiticated political junkees, like many of the posters here, will understand what he is saying. Most of them will make the calculation – OK, there is problem with Harper, but I could never vote NDP, so I’ll go Liberal. Thus Grits are beneficiaries of votes they did nothing to earn. This is not a good political strategy.
Layton must present himself as the steward of the environment, against the punitive effects of carbon taxes, to become an alternative to Grits, where he can gain traction.
IMO, Layton’s stategy is only clever by half; the wrong half.
Jema 54,
I passed judgement on Legacy Moralist. Period.
anoninon brings up potential conflict of interest problems with gardasil. I don’t think this is going to be much of an issue since there are likely large numbers of doctors who will come out in favor of this. I don’t give the vaccine as it comes in “safety” syringe that takes about 5 minutes of work with a knife and pliers to extract the needle again if one presses the wrong button when taking the syringe out of it’s package. Aside from eventually increasing the number of women with cervical cancer (why bother with paps when they’ve had the vaccine), I don’t think this is going to be much of an election issue.
OTOH, Bill C-51 has the potential to really hurt the cpc in BC. This is a bill which would take most supplements off the market and bring them back at prescription drugs usually at about 20X their price without a prescription. There was absolutely reason to bring in this bill and, given the effectiveness of non-Rx treatments such as fish oil to treat hyperlipidemia, bipolar disorder and arthritis there is likely very strong lobbying pressure from the pharmaceutical companies to get rid of non-Rx effective supplements. If the claims made by the makers of EMPower plus prove to be true, this could cost the pharmaceutical industry billions of dollars/year as atypical antipsychotics are a massive market in N. America.
Combine this with the cpc’s failure to do anything about C-68 and in fact making it more likely for gun owners who don’t register their guns actually going to jail, and you’ve got a lot of pissed off gun owners who might just sit this election out. Also in BC, the stiffer sentences for drug trafficking is getting a negative response as the majority of people here know that decriminalization is the answer. I’d estimate that about 1/3 of the population of Vancouver smokes pot on at least an occasional basis and people don’t like their access interfered with. OTOH, if increased enforcement and stiffer jail sentences have the usual effect of increasing illicit drug supplies and reducing prices then we may well see a cpc majority if Harper can get this message out.
OK shamrock – you are right. I see your point that Layton ought to present himself as the steward of the envt..vs..Dion who is merely exploiting the envt (by taxing those who burn its fossil fuels)….Thanks.
Oops, what I meant to say, regarding C-51 was “There was absolutely no reason to bring in this bill”. Sorry for the typo.
Okay, I’m going to try one last time. If you want to make fun of Dion’s accent do it on your own time. Please. Remember how those ads making fun of Chretien’s face were such a disaster (I know my candidate in Quebec was not consulted on these ads). You are asking for trouble.
I don’t know if it will be such a great idea to have the N.D.P. as the opposition. It would be like here in Quebec with the Parti Quebecois as (normally) the opposition. It means once the government changes you get the socialist hordes or here the separatist pushers.
Wow! Dion’s newest campaign proimise is, get this: To give every household in Canada a CALCULATOR so we dumb a ss simpletons who can’t add or subtract can figure out our carbon footprint!
Is this guy for real??? It is like he does not live in the real world that’s for sure.
Will any journalists ask him for a cost breakdown – who is the supplier of these calculators; what will it cost to deliver them to all Canadians?
Anybody remember Sheila Copp’s same brilliant multi gazillion dollar boondoggle to give us all Canadian flags. Of course, she was on Duffy defending Dion’s calculators for all plan.
Is this a comedy from the Twilight Zone or what?
Received the obligatory email from the CPC for a donation.
Does anyone know if PayPal cannot be used for political donation? Already went through the hassle of one credit card hacked, never doing it again.
No PayPal, no coin. That simple.
This election may turn out different.
NDP hubris in even floating the idea of themselves as the official opposition, combined with Liberal voter reticence towards Dion, plus the Greenies and Bloc, makes an even more divided left – which I don’t think Dion will glue back together with last minute fear mongering.
On top of that, soft Liberal voters and undecideds may just stay home en masse come election day.
Conservatives won’t. We’ve got the centre/right to ourselves.
Who really cut the arts program funding?
Harper cut the funding to part of it and because of the tax cuts I have more money in my pocket.
Now if I’m bent out of shape about the amount of money going to the arts, I can simply take some of the money from the tax cuts and give it to the arts community.
If I don’t do that, then I guess it was me who made the cut to the arts.
The media in this election will be telling us how controlling he is.
Didn’t he just give me more control of my own money?
A good first day here in XXXX We already have our office up and running and volunteers came out and we did a great first day of arterial signage. Way ahead the libs.
I’m looking forward to seeing Deeyawn stumble all over his tongue, but I don’t hold out much hope that the MSM is going to show much of it; that’s where bloggers are REALLY going to have an effect in this campaign.
So we’re off and running eh?
Might as well get it over with before the US election reaches a fever pitch. If the McCain/Palin ticket polls favorably during our election as indicated here:
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1548
(Drudge Report link)
The “Obama” factor may not be as influencing as some think or wish.
Speaking of the big “O”, CNN had their special on meeting the real MaCain and Obama. Obama’s story is an interesting one, but when it gets to his political career, something becomes obvious, he is an opportunist. Picks the elections he can win, or thinks he can win. No substance, says what he has to say to get where he wants to go.
Man, did you see Dion kill the english language??? Wow, like a lamb to the slaughter!
Canada Now In Election Campaign, Expected To Be Nasty
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/09/canada-now-in-election-campaign.html
I’m already on it…
Just watch me chew up and spit out, between now and October 14th, the Far-Leftist Opposition’s stupid utterances (and that’s all they have going for them).
They’re going to lie, cheat, lie…
And they won’t get away with it. Neither will the MSM.
I’ve taken off my gloves, because so has the enemy.
I think the key to a majority isn’t Dion’s crappy English, but Ignatieff’s very good English. He’s the guy they’re going to drag out to interpret Dion’s mutterings, and he’s got something of Paul Martin in him. Not the dithering but the hyperbole. Watch him for a ‘beer and popcorn’ moment. It’ll come any day now. Once it does, we win.
I think the most interesting part of this election will be watching the number of imaginative ways the press protects and promotes this socialist franco ninny quebec twinky.
I also wonder if the National Post will stay neutral in the face of an election knowing the left leanings of it’s owners.
CTV/MSM is a propaganda machine for the Librano$. CTV/MSM is perpetrating a fraud on its website.
The proof is here: http://tinyurl.com/6mp4kh (ctv).
CTV quotes Citoyen Dion: *”go see GreenShift.ca” with a live link embedded within the quote.
However, the link on CTV’s website goes to:
http://www.thegreenshift.ca/default_e.aspx.
Att: Jennifer Wright! Proceed with your lawsuit against the Librano$.
Jennifer Wright of Green Shift(TM) is being shafted by the Librano$.
Citoyen Dion say,
*””Go see GreenShift.ca and see what it represents for your family,” Dion said, portraying the plan as part of the 21st century economy and crucial to fighting dangerous climate change.”
Liberals are thieves, liars, frauds, charlatans.
I think the behaviour of the MSM will be interesting. They are all thoroughly entrenched in the Liberal ideology – which sets Canada up as a protected non-participant in the global world. And remember, the Liberal system is based on a class structure. There is the elite professional class who govern. And the peasants who drink beer and eat popcorn.
Canadian world participation is reduced, in the Liberal perspective, to kindly admonishments from our superior morality, to the heathen-who-compete, who go to war, who confront etc.
The fact that this mindset developed as the Canadian economy became a suburban strip mall of the US economy – with Canadians merely setting up franchises or manufacturing parts in industries owned by the US or foreign investors…doesn’t occur to these people.
Our mainstream media ‘pundits’ have never examined the Canadian economic and political infrastructure, never thought about the problems of a Canada which doesn’t economically compete but simply sends over 85% of its exports to only one country…which is switching to China and India; never thought about the need to develop our own innovative products, to compete in the global economy…etc.
And how is the mainstream media going to deal with the fact that they want this postWWII isolationism to continue, despite the fact that the world economy is now global, and Canada can’t remain as the ‘bedroom community’ of the US.
How is the media going to deal with the fact that they want the Liberals in, because the Liberal mode is Big Government which hands out lots of taxpayer money to the elite class. But, they don’t want Dion because they feel that he can’t get them back into power. So, they want him to lose the election.
My guess is that the MSM will try for a minority CPC government. They don’t want Harper to get a majority; they want Dion to lose and be replaced by Rae.
Now, watch how the MSM go about this agenda. Watch the diehard Liberals, such as Jim Travers, Jane Tabers, Gloria Galloway, Newman, Mansbridge, Oliver, etc, etc…work with this agenda.
Of course, what none of them think about is what is good for the country and the people. Their focus is only on their upper class well-being.
Watch out, Ontario and especially Quebec will deliver numerous new blue seats and I’m not talking Duceppe blue.
Duceppe’s best friends (The Librano$) will be slaughtered everywhere in Canada with Toronto still being the best place for them but even some corners within the 416 will be fierce battle grounds and some will be lost to the Conservatives if an NDP/Lib/Green three way for the Leftards occurs.
Jack Layton at this time, has the best chance to form the official opposition which I don’t mind…At least they are consistant in their moonbatery and not oppertunistic whores like the LibranoS.
Get set for a very nasty campaign (Also the PM’s prediction).
Who’s the better leader as the mainframe but a 4 way attack with: “Can’t give Harper a majority” will be repeated ad nauseum and screamed by all MSM.
Most Canadians don’t want an election, so it will be interesting to see who turns out to vote. I would think this would favour the Conservatives as we tend to be more grassroots in nature plus our values certainly include doing your civic duty.
I am praying no Quebec soldiers (or any others!) are killed during the election. So far the Western provinces and the Maritimes have had the brunt of the casualities. I wonder if the Taliban knows we are in election mode.
The Grits need to find some environmental crisis: selling water to the U.S., nuclear plants being built to process the oil sands, more deaths from bad meat.
I also pray no high level Conservative and please none of you bloggers are going to be caught making fun of Dion’s accent. Quebeckers don’t like his intellectual French but they don’t appreciate people making fun of someone trying to speak English. Merci à l’avance!
We have to call the media on every issue they falsely portray Harper on. We have to get out to the public the fact the media are an arm of the Liberal Party, have been for decades, it’s inbred.
The blogs will play a big role in this election. Truth will get out.
Last election, when Harper was zeroing in on Majority, a frenzied, desperate Martin made a second flit across the country spewing lies and damned lies to prevent it. He may have influenced the ill-informed and prevented Harper’s majority but he lost big time.
If the people of Canada can be fooled by fools into voting Liberal, our country is in a worse state than ever in it’s history.
Obviously, the Conservative election strategy is Harper vs. Dion. The brands are secondary. The desired swing voter response is “I cannot vote for such a buffoon (Dion), he’s an embarrassment.”
Whether the Conservatives get a majority, or a stronger minority, this election is financially damaging for the Liberals. Their leaders are still in debt from their last leadership race. The party itself hardly has the money to fight this election. And upon losing, they’ll have to have another leadership race. They’ll be in disarray. And Harper can govern against a lame duck opposition.
However, with a majority, Harper can bring the wrecking ball to Ottawa. The Liberal collusion between the various forms of government must be destroyed and the the filthy rot exorcised. As it stands, Canadian federal politics is hardly a democracy. After 80 years of almost unbroken rule, it is at least Liberal collusion, whether they are leading the government or not. The senate, CBC, supreme court and elections Canada stand as proof of that – undermining the Conservatives, the democratically elected government, every chance they get.
This in itself is criminal. Canada is not their own personal play thing. Democracy must rule. My vote must matter.
“Do u tinks it’s eezy speeek in anglich?”
Hey Nicola, it’s not like the French never make fun of english people trying to speak french…I am a fluent bilingual born in Quebec and remember on several occasions French mocking English, not done maliciously but still not a very civilized way. Certainly did’nt encouraged them to get better.
The clear meme of the moment is Harper wants majority….pregnant pause….and smile, Dion is underestimated, CTV syas that his integrit may yet shine through.
media want a horse race, at a basic level so they try to level the playing field. Watch how this reorganizes itself over the next couple of weeks. Harper is in for some early flak, kind of normal since he is in the lead.
Should the Dion “juggernaut” start to show seams and tatters then the story will eventually be about that, it will start early in Quebec that the Liberal machine is gone. The press aren’t stupid and if it is clear that the Liberals are going down in flames (who wants to ride on that plane by the way?) then it will become clear. I expect to hear calls of media bias from the Liberals sometime before the end of September, perhaps within 2 weeks.
Once again, my riding, thornhill, will be a swing riding. It will probably go to Peter Kent, the question is will it be close, or will it be a solid win. Solid win likely means con majority, close, less than 1,00 viotes, likely means a minority or a nail biiter till every last riding reports.
Watch the shift in coverage….the beginning will be very anti con…..if you want to know how desperate the Liberals are, wait for the abortion question. The earlier it comes out the more desperate they are. My suspicion is they will wait, like the last two times till the final week of the election to try to catch the cons, any con, saying “when we get a majority we will ban/restrict abortions”. If the cons are smart they will say it is not a conservative priority to address this issue in their next mandate.
It will happen though, there will be some breathless reporting about it. But it will be hard to get the image of a Dion disatster out of their minds. If you thought Martis campaign was bad, just wait, the wheel on the horsecart wont just go flat, it will come off. They have no money and the children are in charge….just wait, it may be a literallost tire or it may be a figurative one, but there will be a major incident that says the Liberals arent ready to govern….the press will be unable to ignore it.
Now if I was Nostrodomus I would put all of these into cool sounding quatrains….
This is one Quebecer who’s wishing for a Conservative Majority. Go Harper.
British Columbia- I think the Campbell carbon tax will send voters towards the CPC. Emerson is one of the co-chairs and will also help the CPC in BC. A lot of past LPC supporters will go either Green or NDP. CPC 21/36 seats
Alberta- 28/28 Greens to garner the highest gain in percent share of popular vote. Hello Ezra in Medicine Hat!
Saskatchewan- Ralph Goodle gets to go into the vineyard and orchard business with other Libranos. David Orchard is PMSH’s trojan horse in the Liberal party in Harper’s quest to “smash” the LPC (Tom Flanagan). Orchard will make the Libs look like a bunch of quacks and they will lose their seriousness as a credible, national party. CPC 13/14 & Ground Zero of LPC self implosion. Someone should google mark the spot where Orchard gave his acceptance speech and update Wiki. 😉
Manitoba- The Winnepeg area will be good for the NDP, also MB got extra revenue from the re-worked equalization formula based on 50% renewables. CPC 8/14 seats.
Ontario- With the announcement of Buzz Hargrove’s succesor, Ken Lawenza, and his proclamation that they will use every opportunity to dissuade people for voting CPC, look for a backlash from other middle inome earners who are also struggling with the recent economic slowdown. McGuinty seems to be willing to bury the hatchet with the CPC (Maybe McGuinty has leader of the LPC aspirations) and the feds are/will spend big there over the next few years. Co-mingle that with the CPC rollout of costs to Rural Ontarians from Dion’s Green Shift, CPC 46/106 seats
Quebec- Bernard Lord is another co-chair of the CPC election committee and will be spending a considerble amount of time in Que. Significant takeaway from the Bloc, but will also steal some closer ridings from the LPC due to the NDP/LPC/Green split that is going to occur. CPC 34/75 seats
New Brunswick- Again, Bernard Lord. Nuclear Energy, LNG and other energy intensive/creative industries, Green Shift=No Votes CPC 6/10 seats
Nova Scotia- Way too many Che t-shirts seen in Halifax during the warmer months. Bill Casey “Maverick” factor along with MacDonald’s appearance to be capitulating to Harper vs. Danny Williams’ appearance of standing up to Harper, like Bill Casey. McKay wins and I think Gerald Keddy gets to hold onto his seat. NDP thrive here. NS says no to Lizzie May. CPC 2/11 seats.
PEI- Welcome to Ottawa Gail Shea. CPC 1/4
NL- *sigh*
Little rumour Ret. General Rick Hillier will run for the CPC. If so, they win his seat and may be even able to hang onto Fabian Manning’s seat. If former minister in Danny William’s cabinet, Tom Osborne, decides to run he might get in as well. With Hearn and Norm Doyle retiring, there is a good possibility of the CPC being shutout. For now CPC 0/7 seats. If Hillier, Manning and Osbourne run, CPC 3/7 seats.
Yukon, NWT & Nunavut- Harper wins Nunavit from NDP, land claims, national park, control of energy resource, Northern Defense spending. etc CPC 1/3 seats.
Currently, CPC
Atlantic Canada- 9/31 seats (No gain/loss)
NWT, Yukon, Nunavit- 1/3 seats (1 seat gain)
QUE- 34/75s seats (23 seat gain)
ON- 46/105 seats (5 seat gain)
Prairies- 49/56 seats (3 seat gain)
BC- 21/36 seats (2 seat gain)
Quebec is the King maker.
Majority 155/308
CPC 160/308
LPC-73/308
NDP- 41/308
Bloc-31/309
Ind- 3/308
“Now, watch how the MSM go about this agenda. Watch the diehard Liberals, such as Jim Travers, Jane Tabers, Gloria Galloway, Newman, Mansbridge, Oliver, etc, etc…work with this agenda.”
Behold the awesome predictive powers of ET: the media will be somewhat anti-Conservative in the upcoming election. Wow, what incredible insight, thanks for sharing.
Not much else to say: Harper will win a minority, the fake conservatives who oppose him will probably jump back on the bandwagon once victory looks imminent, watch for it. A majority is out of the question and always has been, stop talking about it.
Longshot prediction: something like the following scenario will occur: a House of Commons staffer will make an accusation of sexual harassment or even rape against a sitting Conservative MP. A bombshell like that is the only chance the Liberals have got, they know it, and are not above doing something like that.
The key consideration in this election is how successful the CPC is in explaining to seniors, students, immigrants, and low income Canadians that this Green Shift plan of the Liberals will hurt them most of all, in the form of higher prices on everything, especially heating their homes and transportation, with little discernible benefit to the environment.
Immigrants, for example, have bigger families than native born Canadians, according to Statistics Canada, meaning among other things bigger houses to heat and power, and bigger vehicles to drive. They’ll only hurt themselves by voting for the party they have to this point overwhelmingly supported.
Same for seniors and students and, well, it is difficult to identify a cohort that will be better off economically under the ever-shifting Green Shift.
If you want to raise your game this election, and believe me, most of you need to, very badly, then you need to read everything you can find at punditsguide.ca, it is an excellent resource.
Idiot Taber’s first comment on Question Period:
On Harper’s visit with the GG, Taber said, “I expected him to walk over there, but instead he drove. The Liberals (me) are already commenting on his carbon footprint.”
Thus, the unbelievable stupidity of the Liberal press begins.
nicola – I think the mocking of Dion’s terrible accent is really a comment on his total inability to speak English. Never mind the accent.
And since Canada is 80% English, then, setting oneself up as their leader is arrogant. It fits into that old class elitism where indeed, in England, the upper class spoke French. And before that, Latin. As you also note, Dion’s French isn’t Quebecois French’ but that of France – a very different French. I know people from France who simply cannot understand Quebecois.
Again, the Liberals are a class-based political system, viewing the governance of a country as something necessarily done by the elite professionals, and the population as ‘governed peasants’. That comes out, even without intention, in Dion’s comments and behaviour.
Nice post, irwin daisy. I fully agree; we have a Liberal collusion govt in Ottawa – which includes the civil service, the judiciary, senate, the media.. This cabal operates as an elite governance within the Montreal-Ottawa corridor. They have no knowledge of the rest of the country – who are viewed – as shown by Dion – as merely sources of money and sources of votes.
cpc pick ups:
2 in BC
1 in MB
12 (give or take one or two) in each of Ont and Que
3 in Atlantic
for a majority
legacy moralist – I”m not predicting, I’m describing. Do you know the difference?
The media are currently strongly anti-Conservative; they’ll continue this way. That’s a description. Not a prediction.
Yes, I agree that the Liberals are not ‘above’ malicious and fraudulent smear campaigns. They’ve been busy doing that with Harper for the last two years. So what’s new?
And I agree, the Green Shift is a Green Shaft. It says nothing at all about helping the envnt. Merely taxing ’emissions’ (which Dion ignorantly calls ‘pollution’) and handing the money back to taxpayers. As a bribe.
And particularly to the lowest income. heh – a two-income family with a gross income of 20,000 per year! And one with 40,000! That’s his focus. He’s obviously not going after the latte crowd who spend that much on their new SUVs.
The problem of course is that this tax doesn’t stop the ‘pollution’. And Dion NEEDS the pollution to continue. Otherwise, he has no income. To give back to those ‘taxpayers’. So, he can’t allow these emissions to stop. Otherwise there’s no money.
Oh – and there’s NOTHING in his 48 page plan about the envt. Nothing about using the money to develop new technologies for those industries. Nothing about low cost loans to install the new tecnology..WHEN IT IS DEVELOPED. You see, it hasn’t been developed. It takes time and money to develop new technologies.
And of course, Dion grossly underestimates the enormous cost of his plan. The companies will either leave Canada or increase prices and pass it all off on to the consumer. All of it.
Incredible what a dumb plan it is. Just 48 pages. You don’t get into the outline until page 30..(before it’s all rhetoric and pictures)..and then, all it outlines is how much you’ll get back in taxes. Nothing about the envt. Nothing about how much costs will increase. Incredible.
The UBC Election Stock Market (decision market) will be opening up tomorrow. It is a money market.
http://esm.ubc.ca/
Hmm, this could get interesting:
– Dion is already accusing Harper/CPC of being “ideological.” Apart from the fact most Canadians (beer and popcorn set) don’t actually know, or care, what that term means, that accusation, IMO, usually refers to the accuser.
– No chance for NDP to be Official Opposition; not because the opportunity isn’t there, but because their inept leader is insisting on going after Harper and leaving Dion unscathed. This will allow Dion to bleed off some of NDP big city vote, with no opportunity for dippers to take Tory votes.
– majority CPC possible but it will take some doing. Their best chance is an intercenine battle for votes on left leaning parties (ie-all but CPC). I don’t think that will happen, so some major gaffe from Dion will be necessary, assuming none from Tories.
– Dion wants election to be about economy, IOW he’s repudiating his main plank policy. He seems to be in denial that Tories seen as best stewards, rather he goes to power orientation that bad news for government is good news for his party. BTW, Libs have provided Ms Wright of Green Shift (the real deal that is) with compelling evidence in her action against the LPC by creating “label confusion.” Not a very smart move, one the Tories are sure to exploit.
– No Obama factor whatsoever in this election. It would have been worse if election after US, because Obama will lose POTUS campaign.
– Sure, MSM will be hostile to Harper, at first. The incumbent should expect this treatment, though MSM will take it much farther than they ever did against Grits. By end Sep, they will make nice when it’s clear Harper is in majority territory, basically giving up their fantasy of Grit rebirth, and perks for them. CBC, OTOH, will go down with the ship, with guns blazing.
– Regionally – Grits will get a s**t kicking in BC. Look for Layton to have different message there, against carbon taxes, opposition to which has vaulted their provincial leader into the lead. That is unless Layton is a piker tactician, which he is showing already.
– if Rick Hillier decides to run for CPC, he will win riding easily, and possibly position other Nfld Tory wins, taking advantage of Green Shaft Shift
– in debates, all participants will go after Harper, and he will take them all on, for no advantage. If they go too far and launch into Bush-light, 9/11 inside job crap, and viewers perceive media bias, look out. Harper will mop floor with them. It’s suicide, IMO, to underestimate Harper’s intellect and cunning.
Let’s talk Gardacil.
CBC had a very interesting discussion. I sensed only mild Harper dissing,however, the facts were coming thru.
The 3 million for the vaccine appeared suddenly in Feb 2007, shortly after one of PMSH’s former advisors became an employee for Merck pharmaceuticals.
The health experts on the panel discourage a misleading message that cervical cancer can be wiped out with the vaccine.Screening is the best prevention.
Interesting observation: when the vaccine was mandated in the states it was observed that the Christian right balked, not for the message of promoting promiscuity, but for the government interference, usurping parental authority. The left re-acted with “the Christians are against this so we are for it”(No surprise).
I work in health care. I do not trust pharmaceuticals. Powerful money there.
As a CPC supporter I would like more open discussion on the vaccine.We haven’t heard enough.
Discuss?
ET: “My guess is that the MSM will try for a minority CPC government. They don’t want Harper to get a majority; they want Dion to lose and be replaced by Rae.”
My guess is that you’re correct ET, though I wonder what mechanisms the MSM could use to accomplish this degree of precision in their manipulation of the electorate. The MSM seems like too much of a blunt instrument to be capable of such finesse.
The MSM didn’t really learn its lesson from the last election, didn’t allow itself to accept that things aren’t the same anymore as they were during the Liberal regime. The MSM is still in denial, by and large.
This means that they don’t realize that The People, that means you and me, now compete with the MSM when it comes to the dissemination of information and opinion during an election campaign.
No longer will the elitist, big-money, controlled-by-powerful-leftists MSM have a monopoly on election coverage.
The new reality, thanks to the internet and all the cost-efficient possibilities it opened up in terms of civilian blogs and their comments threads, non-MSM news websites, etc, is that politicians and the MSM must at all times realize that it’s highly unlikely that they’ll get away with lies, evasions, obfuscations, etc., as they used to be able to do.
Layton is launching his campaign in Harper’s riding. His provincial campaign slogan is: Alberta (heart) Jack Layton.
And this jackass is calling Harper a liar?
Socialist utopians have no place in real world politics.
I heard Deyawn say the same thing Mazz 2 – I was flabbergasted. He is being sued for stealing the greenshift name – and he announces the theft on TV?!! Just how dumb is this leader of the Liberanos?
Irwin Daisy, Komrade Jackov, in calling Harper a liar, is merely projecting his own behavioral tendencies as is natural for all Leftist radicals.
To be a little vulgar, sorry, but you see, when Leftists accuse non-Leftists of stuff, they’re really basically blaming others when they themselves fart, so that people will think that the other guy farted. In this case, Jackov knows that he himself is a liar, but he tries to make others think that it’s Harper who’s lying.
So it begins….
Dion attacks Harper for holding a “conservative ideology”….Observers are shocked.
Travers mouths Dion’s “starkly different vision” meme….Observers are shocked.
Kady O Malley is pissed about getting up early on a Sunday….still manages to make a reference to “American style politics”…..Harper has a press conference….gasp…..in a rose garden. Patriotic Canadians are shocked.
Jack Layton makes reference to “change meme”..invokes the spirit of the Obamessiah. This reference to “American style politics” is acceptable. Nobody is shocked.
I swear the left desperately needs an imagination transplant.
Syncro
Jennifer Wright’s website here:
http://www.greenshift.ca/index.html
Send a message of support to Jennifer Wright:
info@GreenShift.ca
“The Liberal Party of Canada tries to discount our trademark by saying that it is a common term, widely in use throughout the world
We knew this was not true and have performed regular internet searches to monitor and prevent it from becoming so but a Montreal-based media monitoring and analysis company (Influence Communication), completed an exhaustive 12-month scan of all newspapers (14 000+) in 159 countries to discover that ‘green shift’ as a term has been encountered in only 62 occasions; this from over 15 million articles/editorials directly or indirectly related to the environment/climate change…etc. As they said to us, “this appears to contradict recent affirmations expressed by certain political leaders”.”
Layton’s starting in Alberta? Dumb.
Grind a grit, true as that is about mocking english who try and speak french, this is the kind of thing that if folks were to mock Dion’s speaking style, game over in Quebec, and possibly game over to a CPC government.
This from Kinsella:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080906/fed_elxn_080906/20080906?hub=TopStories
“The New Democrats have taken their campaign bus for a test spin and the Conservatives are running election ads, but the Liberals are scrambling to fix up a Boeing 737 made in 1979.
The Air Inuit plane is not expected to be ready until near the end of the week. Conservatives say it’s a blunder on the part of Liberal Leader Stephane Dion.
“I think this underscores his weak leadership and what a risk he would be as prime minister. He can’t even lead his own party,” said Conservative MP Jason Kenney.”
ET has it bang on, re: a bigger minority. Much as I would love a majority, I can’t see it happening. 140-145 seats, maybe, but not 155.
trev – I’m not saying that the result of the election will be a ‘bigger minority’. I have no predictions but of course, I hope for a CPC majority.
I’m saying that the Liberal media are hoping for a CPC minority. They want Dion to lose so that they can get rid of him and get Rae in as leader of the Liberals.
Dion has already started to stumble – badly.
There’s his new carbon guzzling and emitting campaign plane; So much for his environmental agenda.
there’s his telling everyone to go to ‘GreenShift.ca’, when the Liberal Party is trying to say that the name is THEGreenShift; and they are being sued by the legitimate company of GreenShift.ca.
There’s his attack on Harper for holding a ‘Conservative ideology’. Well, what else is the leader of the Conservative party supposed to hold, other than an ideology of conservativism? Just as Dion’s ideology is Liberalism.
There’s his name-calling, where he defines Harper’s view as: “narrow-minded, right-wing agenda.” This is a CONCLUSION; Dion has to provide the REASONS for such a conclusion. Otherwise it’s pure empty drive-by smears.
Again, Dion points out that Harper set up a law mandating an election every four years. This is a limit of governance, not a minimum term. And, if Dion really accepted this law, then why, why, why, has he (and the MSM) been talking endleslly over the past two years of nothing but ‘When’s the election’? If Dion accepted the four year as a set term, then, why didn’t he – when asked when he would ‘bring down Harper’s govt’..why didn’t he reply: “We must go for the full four years’.
But he didn’t. Never. He never mentioned the four years before. Nor did the MSM who has also been asking, endlessly – when’s the election. They never said a word about..’Not for four years’.
Dion says that Harper has brought Canada’s economy ‘to the brink of recession’. No, he hasn’t. Canada is a part of the global economy and what affects that globe, affects us. Dion’s green shaft will, however, move Canada into an economic disaster.
shamrock – I think that Layton’s plan to ignore the Liberals and go after Harper is rather clever. He’s effectively saying that the NDP is the official opposition. Dion and the Liberals literally don’t exist. That’s clever.
Now, whether it will work out in fact rather than fancy…But, if he spends his time going after Dion, then, he’s setting the NDP party up as a choice between the Liberals-and-the-NDP. Instead, he’s setting it up as a choice between the Conservatives-and-the-NDP. Clever.
“If you want to raise your game this election, and believe me, most of you need to, very badly” – Legacy Moralist
You obviously consider yourself intelligent and informed. I consider you supercilious. Not to mention dull- witted.
What is the biggest story of the year?
Obama? The Chinese Olympics? Sara Palin? Nope.
Danny Williams shutting his pie hole should be the biggest story of the decade.
It should be on the front page of Time and Scientific American.
Dion’s green plan will pull billions out of the Nfld economy but Williams hasn’t uttered a peep.
What force of nature could keep his gigantic ego and gigantic mouth in check?
He’s got a secret side deal with the liberals.
Why hasn’t the MSM even asked Danny about it?
I’d like to hear someone on a radio phone in show or interview ask either of them point blank if they have a side deal.
Make them either admit it or deny it.
The media in this country are apparently great at sniffing out who has a hidden agenda and who doesn’t, in fact that seems to be the only thing they look for.
How could they be missing anything this obvious?
Oh, wait, it wasn’t in the liberal press release.
Just who are you RCGZ? And why do you pass judgement on ‘us’ so harshly?
ET, the , problem with Layton going after Harper, beyond the normalcy of attacking the incumbent, is that he is trying to draw votes from the CPC. That simply won’t happen; by ignoring Dion he is allowing a possible bleed off on the left.
I doubt voters will see the sublety of his position. Only the most sophisiticated political junkees, like many of the posters here, will understand what he is saying. Most of them will make the calculation – OK, there is problem with Harper, but I could never vote NDP, so I’ll go Liberal. Thus Grits are beneficiaries of votes they did nothing to earn. This is not a good political strategy.
Layton must present himself as the steward of the environment, against the punitive effects of carbon taxes, to become an alternative to Grits, where he can gain traction.
IMO, Layton’s stategy is only clever by half; the wrong half.
Jema 54,
I passed judgement on Legacy Moralist. Period.
anoninon brings up potential conflict of interest problems with gardasil. I don’t think this is going to be much of an issue since there are likely large numbers of doctors who will come out in favor of this. I don’t give the vaccine as it comes in “safety” syringe that takes about 5 minutes of work with a knife and pliers to extract the needle again if one presses the wrong button when taking the syringe out of it’s package. Aside from eventually increasing the number of women with cervical cancer (why bother with paps when they’ve had the vaccine), I don’t think this is going to be much of an election issue.
OTOH, Bill C-51 has the potential to really hurt the cpc in BC. This is a bill which would take most supplements off the market and bring them back at prescription drugs usually at about 20X their price without a prescription. There was absolutely reason to bring in this bill and, given the effectiveness of non-Rx treatments such as fish oil to treat hyperlipidemia, bipolar disorder and arthritis there is likely very strong lobbying pressure from the pharmaceutical companies to get rid of non-Rx effective supplements. If the claims made by the makers of EMPower plus prove to be true, this could cost the pharmaceutical industry billions of dollars/year as atypical antipsychotics are a massive market in N. America.
Combine this with the cpc’s failure to do anything about C-68 and in fact making it more likely for gun owners who don’t register their guns actually going to jail, and you’ve got a lot of pissed off gun owners who might just sit this election out. Also in BC, the stiffer sentences for drug trafficking is getting a negative response as the majority of people here know that decriminalization is the answer. I’d estimate that about 1/3 of the population of Vancouver smokes pot on at least an occasional basis and people don’t like their access interfered with. OTOH, if increased enforcement and stiffer jail sentences have the usual effect of increasing illicit drug supplies and reducing prices then we may well see a cpc majority if Harper can get this message out.
OK shamrock – you are right. I see your point that Layton ought to present himself as the steward of the envt..vs..Dion who is merely exploiting the envt (by taxing those who burn its fossil fuels)….Thanks.
Oops, what I meant to say, regarding C-51 was “There was absolutely no reason to bring in this bill”. Sorry for the typo.
Okay, I’m going to try one last time. If you want to make fun of Dion’s accent do it on your own time. Please. Remember how those ads making fun of Chretien’s face were such a disaster (I know my candidate in Quebec was not consulted on these ads). You are asking for trouble.
I don’t know if it will be such a great idea to have the N.D.P. as the opposition. It would be like here in Quebec with the Parti Quebecois as (normally) the opposition. It means once the government changes you get the socialist hordes or here the separatist pushers.
Wow! Dion’s newest campaign proimise is, get this: To give every household in Canada a CALCULATOR so we dumb a ss simpletons who can’t add or subtract can figure out our carbon footprint!
Is this guy for real??? It is like he does not live in the real world that’s for sure.
Will any journalists ask him for a cost breakdown – who is the supplier of these calculators; what will it cost to deliver them to all Canadians?
Anybody remember Sheila Copp’s same brilliant multi gazillion dollar boondoggle to give us all Canadian flags. Of course, she was on Duffy defending Dion’s calculators for all plan.
Is this a comedy from the Twilight Zone or what?
Received the obligatory email from the CPC for a donation.
Does anyone know if PayPal cannot be used for political donation? Already went through the hassle of one credit card hacked, never doing it again.
No PayPal, no coin. That simple.
This election may turn out different.
NDP hubris in even floating the idea of themselves as the official opposition, combined with Liberal voter reticence towards Dion, plus the Greenies and Bloc, makes an even more divided left – which I don’t think Dion will glue back together with last minute fear mongering.
On top of that, soft Liberal voters and undecideds may just stay home en masse come election day.
Conservatives won’t. We’ve got the centre/right to ourselves.
http://libertyville.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/key-federal-election-issue-the-green-shift/
That should be enough to get tongues back in Saskatchewan wagging!
Isn’t this the sort of thing our Stephen used to do?
http://www.taxpayer.com/pdf/Conservative_Spending.pdf
Who really cut the arts program funding?
Harper cut the funding to part of it and because of the tax cuts I have more money in my pocket.
Now if I’m bent out of shape about the amount of money going to the arts, I can simply take some of the money from the tax cuts and give it to the arts community.
If I don’t do that, then I guess it was me who made the cut to the arts.
The media in this election will be telling us how controlling he is.
Didn’t he just give me more control of my own money?
A good first day here in XXXX We already have our office up and running and volunteers came out and we did a great first day of arterial signage. Way ahead the libs.