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Perhaps in bad taste a bit…
As we’ve discovered Dix failed in his attempt at “One-Hour-Layton-izing”.
Adrian just does not have the media savvy that Jack had; it takes more than a clean pressed shirt.
Seriously, Jack had a bum leg in 2011 and could still run circles around Adrian.
When Adrian gave the pipelines the shaft; he was seriously fracking-up.
If the NDP want to know why they lost, it was the Dix intransigence on showing the electorate how to finance all those social programs. His policy bluntness and flip flops on energy exports left the greater electorate guessing at what further economic turmoil he would have pushed.
Dix couldn’t negotiate a deal but would impose one.
While I did not share in Jack’s political philosophy, Jack in contrast was a ‘closer’; big difference.
With all due respect Jack has more life in him, than Adrian does; and that is saying a lot.
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Hey Dirk!
How long have you been an NDP hack?
I thought the purpose of the media is to do some investigating, get your nose messy in the lives of the people who you are writing articles about and get into that grit and dirt of a person running? Isn’t it your responsibility to uncover the lies, deceit and backroom deals these guys have done? Isn’t your job to expose this stuff so the voters can make a health and informed, calculated decision as to who they want to make the laws and pass the legislation necessary to foster a compatible business climate so the government can then collect the multiple billions of dollars of taxes they need to pass out to all their cronies?
Instead you talk about how Dix is channeling the Ghost of Layton?
Niiiiiiice!!!
Perhaps in bad taste a bit…
Posted by: Tirador on May 15, 2013 5:31 PM | Reply
Bad taste is what Jack left behind on the tongues of those underage asian hookers he abused.
The undecided voters decided that they could not elect Dix who committed fraud and who was a fare cheat. What were the NDP thinking when they chose himm as a leader or do all NDPrs think like him.
Adrian’s problem is he told the truth about what he would do if elected, Jack knew he had to keep that part quiet. Only the french fell for it.
“…”Here’s what Jack did that I’m trying to do….”
Let me finish that sentence for ya….
“…but the cops keep making notes” said Dix
Jackoff was visiting the very establishments that the city of TO was trying to close, all the while collecting his pay cheque from the city. Nothing like biting the hand that feeds you. The tax payers of TO were getting a bad deal were Jackoff was concerned. So Dix must live under the barrel, cuz Jackoff was on the bottom of the barrel.
BCers who cared enough to vote don’t trust the NDP with their tax dollars. Adrian Dix is a far left ideologue with ZERO scintilla of charisma and insufficient logic to connect resource extraction with jobs and jobs with communities. The guy should have been left in the backroom, not pushed up front as a ‘leader.’
The references in the article to Layton’s achievements left me baffled – what achievements?
I wonder how many talkingheads will eschew the “positive campaign” now..?..(puns intended)
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The Dips didn’t have to think, Jim Sinclair anointed Dix as his choice, and most of the rest followed. Dix was Sinclair’s tool. Thank goodness for Dix, he was nebbish, always furrowed his brow when he talked, as if he was always apologizing, And he was actually proud of all hundreds of millions of new welfae money he was going to rain down, as well as the hundreds of millions he was going to gift to the unions.
At least he was somewhat honest about that, I’ll give him that. But it killed the Dips. That and people like me, who were not answering the polls directly…..
undecided, undecided, undecided, though I was more or less sure. Warts and all, the Libs were still better than the welfare statist, anti-development, anti-resource jobs, Comrade Dix.
Trust the NDP to use Jack Layton as some sort of “patron saint” and trot him out after he’s dead. There’s still mileage in that corpse but apparently not enough for Adrian Dix to make a clean sweep.
I’d say he’s channeling layton as his personal El Cid, except layton hated anything military.
Adrian earned his NDP leadership the old fashioned way, he stacked the election process with instant Party members from the East Indian community, as did Christy Clark in the Liberal leadership race.
There were hundreds of membership forms submitted with a $10 bill stapled to it. People came forward later that didn’t even know they were Party members,let alone voted for somebody.
It’s the BC way.
Ah,well, it all turned out for the better, at least we don’t have to live with the Marxist social engineering of Dix.
Dixhead forgot one major truth if you want to fund social programs through taxes you have to create business to create the taxes to fund the programs
The NDP version of weekend at Bernie’s
They can trot the sanctified corpse of Jack out every election. It will only impress the devoted. Only the blindest of the worshippers would not notice the wires holding the flying unicorn aloft.
The references in the article to Layton’s achievements left me baffled – what achievements?
Posted by: Aviator on May 15, 2013 7:56 PM
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He took an also-ran distant third party and rebuilt it and achieved official opposition status for the first time in history.
Give credit where it’s due.
Mind you, he had a lot of help from the implosion of the Federal Liberals.
Don Morris is correct that both party leaders were elected with the help of mass signups of East Indians. One quibble, though — I believe it was actually $20 bills that Dix’s minions stapled to the NDP membership forms. It was the BC Liberal party that charged $10 per membership. I know because I bought one in order to vote online against Christy Clark for the leadership and didn’t like it when she won.
To paraphrase the famous Variety headline:
“Sticks Nix Dix Red Shtick Pick”
Layton also had a lot of help from the CBC/CTV crowd. When it became apparent that their chosen horse in the race (LPC) was self-destructing, they started reporting non-stop on the “Orange Surge”. The voters who were easily swayed by the prospect of trending, bandwagons, or any other herd behavior quickly climbed aboard. Like the stock market, perception can become reality in elections, and what would have been a bump in support on its own became a genuine (MSM supported and underpinned) election anomaly.
Not surprised that it was only Sun TV that ran the video of Dix’s wife reciting some vagina monologue BS. If that wasn’t enough to scare a voter straight I don’t know what it would take.