You know what. I wear this. I wear this all summer.
You know what else? I’m not running for leadership of 33M people and an economy that is leading the world.
Trudeau doesn’t get that bit.
I work out of home. It affords a certain luxury when I’m at home. However, when I meet or interact with clients I wear something more like this:
You know why? Because, a) you only get the chance to make 1 first impression. b) you are a professional.
If I wanted to brag about how much my company made last quarter, I sure as heck wouldn’t do it wearing my lawn mowing gear.
I wonder how much Justin charges for aeration and weed control?
As the breathless metamucil stream media cover Justys every flatulant moment, they should remember there is still 41 million plus that was stolen that we know of by these lieberal crooks and thieves, oh but for lefties, history is hard to remember, “oh boy Justy just tweeted he has a red T shirt also, and he once met Kim Kardashian” . I could be a post reporter also.
If junior is so good at raising money, perhaps the Liberals would consider paying back to taxpayers all the ad scam money that was stuffed into brown paper bags. I don’t know about those polls but Eastern Canada really does deserve to have this drama teacher at the helm of their economic recovery, after all, they really are smarter in Quebec.
Another in the long line of not ready for national leadership Libranos. This one can’t seem to differentiate duty/responsibility of office, from hanging with his hoodies. What a frikkin’ juvenile – GROW UP!!
I can seen now, with this casual dressed down, big hair, unconvential lifestyle approach to marketing JT that the Librano spin team are targeting the youngest most gullible voter demographic – problem is this pony boy is even too old and too silver spoon isolated to mimic a hipster.
But it’s not about integrity of national service or even taking the privilege of leadership seriously with the LPC is it? It’s really all about money – as the article cryptically alludes to, the LPC spin boys, party oligarchs and patronage cartel love the Pony’s ability to bring in revenues for a depleted war chest. Win, lose or draw, they will have fattened their poke.
I hve only one thing to say about the LPC becoming liquid again – as a taxpayer who they robbed during the Adscam era, and promised to pay me back for doing so, – WHERE THE HELL’S MY MONEY!! Pay us first before you have any intention of getting back in the saddle.
Yep Lance, me too. I’m wearing it right now. I don’t wear the wussy v-neck t-shirt, and mine has a Lancaster on it. Candidly, Justine looks better in his than I do. In fairness though, I’m about 20 years older than he is.
As for an economy that leads the world, I think we can count on Justine and the Libranos to fix that about a month after they get in office. It would behoove us to see that doesn’t happen.
Just wondering if the Liberals paid for that bit of advertising in the National Post or if that’s just our highly effective press corps at work….
Why “The Pup Out Of Old Pierre”. Very simple, the Liberal Party needs to fool the people into forgetting the last 40-50 years of corrupted Prime Ministers all out of Quebec, who were bought and paid for by Powercorp/Desmarais Clan out of Quebec. Pierre Trudeau worked for Powercorp/Desmarais, his bid for PM was financed by Desmarais. Brian Mulroney worked for Powercorp/Desmarais his bid for PM was financed by Powercorp/Desmarais. Chretien worked for Powercorp/Desmarais his bid for PM was financed by Powercorp/Desmarais. Paul Martin worked for Powercorp/Desmarais he was financed by Powercorp/Desmarais. So basically a family compact out of Quebec Powercorp/Desmarais ran Canada for the last 40 years before Harper. Desmarais was even on the inside appointed to the Privy Council, privy to all cabinet decisions. The Liberals and Quebec needs Canadians to forget all this. None of this was revealed openly by the media in Canada all during those years. It is still never discussed today. The connections still exist. Who owns Justin Trudeau? We need to know this. And we need to know this before the next election. Canadians need to understand, that Canada can not afford another PM from Quebec. Hopefully the new ridings will be in effect before the next election. Harper proved that you can obtain a majority in English Canada without Quebec. He can not say this but we can. English Canada no longer needs Quebec in order to obtain a majority government with an English PM. Let that burn in real good. No more PM’s from Quebec. Here is a graph showing all the connections between Powercorp/Desmarais and Trudeau. Mulroney, Chretien, and Martin. http://westernstandard.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/connectingchart.jpg
Remember the US election, and how Obama targeted the Low Information Voters by restricting his campaigning to Entertainment Tonight, Leno, Letterman, etc.?
The Liberals were paying attention.
The Liberals have a dilemma. They need to keep Justin in the public eye, but need to have him scripted most of the time and away from the real action. Have we seen him in Parliament since he took over the leadership? I think their strategy is to keep him sidelined and to give us regular video’s of Justin being Justin. (Very like the Wizard of Oz strategy.) Their numbers may stay high this way — no one getting a glimpse of Justin performing as a Parliamentarian. I think it is all going to be an endless PR promotion. Then, if he ever gets to be Prime Minister we will get the world’s first video Prime Minister. Justin is not running the show — he has been away from Ottawa since being elected — so who is running things?? Ultimately, the Liberals are not treating him as a serious leader — so why should we?
Even JTs Facebook friend Paul wells feels the need to point out that the fundraising is hardly overwhelming.
If stock day had dressed like that the press would have had a field day. Does anyone advising him understand that he needs to look more serious – more prime ministerial?
Yeah well….image is everything…as much as location….
This is not the image that a PM hopeful should project.
The garb, the posture, the hands in the pockets.
My folks or my elementary teachers woulda riped me a new one for that.
The image is that of arrested developement….
Hmmm … I do remember Louis St. Laurent and John Diefenbugger, and whatever their merits and demerits were, neither was voted into office by women doing what their lady parts told them to.
Pathetic.
He reminds me of that old Canadian Tire ad “hey hey Mr Customer man ” as he swipes hair out of his eyes
Not sure what to think of the Dolphin’s eclectic aparel, it’s memorable ‘spose. Was he bragging about collecting 1 mil? – at this blistering pace will that put the Libs at 50% of CPC donations?
Trying to attribute this windfall to the CPC ads is double dubious – new leaders honeymoon phase more like it. Lib generosity usually exhausts itself pretty fast as they are not use to squandering their own moula.
Lib commenters at sundry media storys are going gaga verging on mass hysteria once again. So predictable, at every little blip – hope springs eternal. Pitiful actually – Libs are akin to a lost mob of gollums forever grasping for their precious.
As long as we’re making fun of somebody’s appearance, we can all have a good laugh by looking in the mirror.
Ideas, on the other hand, are always up for debate.
Just think! Our grandkids and/or great-grandkids can look forward to Justin’s son running for PM one day! Could happen in about 40 years, I’m guessing. I could live long enough to see this debacle, I suppose. Three Trudeaus in one lifetime may just finish me off…
454guy, thank you for posting that.
So the tyrants, the communists and the barbarians don’t like what we stand for, it is moments like this when I am truly proud to be Canadian.
I can vouch for what Lance said regarding his apparel while visiting clients, and was pleasantly surprised.
You can bemoan his apparel all you want, but it hasn’t stopped his poll surge.
The outfit communicates likability — but not seriousness. Unfortunately, too many people will vote for the person they “like” as opposed to the person who is genuinely competent — at least that’s what the Libs are counting on. Their relentless “Stephen Harper mean” mantra (unwarranted, but mindlessly repeated by the media), underscores their strategy. They are after all of the shallow, mindless voters.
You know, of all the leaders we could choose, he DOES look the nicest. All the world would love Canada again. We’d see a popularity surge of ‘all things Canadian’, you know, like Australia did 15 years ago. They’d want to buy Canadian maple syrup (“I’m J.T. and I love maple syrup. You should, too!”), and Hudson’s Bay blankets, and stuffed moose, and canoes, and mountie hats, and muskox sweaters, and inukshuks for their gardens, and Canadian oil, and Canadian potash (“I’m J.T. and I love potash. You should, too!”) Where would it end? He’d be so popular that people would forget about Jack Layton. And when he tries to enact another set of gun laws, all he’d have to do is shed a tear and pout, texting to the nation, “gunz r bad. 🙁 ” and the law of the land would be so. Unicorns for all! Yay!
Can’t wait to hear the ideas that go with the boy’s get up…I’m sure they’ll be worth discussing.
You know, how my dad can beat up your dad…my province is better than your province.
Unfortunately you are just way too correct, john g. The Libs took notes and are going for the low-info voter, the way the Dems did with all those talk shows, all the “personal” touch stuff — Obama is a celebrity, not a Pres. It’s what most of the people wanted. There was a poll that came out just as the votes were being counted in the U.S., and Obama rated highest on the “cares about me” question. So would Justin, in that casual wear, compared to competent but steely-eyed Harper in his suits.
Justin will be our celebrity leader, not our PM, because the reasonable and normal Canadians will be outnumbered by those people and those youth who make Kate want to stock her moat. And the backroom Libranos, the real powers, will be in charge again with their hands in our wallets, just the way they like it. Taxes will go up, gov’t bureaucracy will grow, the economy will go down, dependancy will increase (thus keeping people on the dole and voting Liberal) . . . It’s to weep.
What a difference a few weeks, and a charismatic new leader
After sixty years on this earth, the thing that I distrust the most is charisma. Here in the USA, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama have all been charismatic. Dwight Eisenhower wasn’t.
Mitt Romney had a poll surge.
The Landslide is beginning..
Fox News Fires Dick Morris:
Mitt Romney Landslide Prediction Gets Political Commentator Canned
That JT was a drama teacher eminently qualifies him as a politician – in that all aspiring politicians are really just actors waiting in the wings for their turn on stage. That said all scripts are pre-written and approved by the producers/directors. His success is pretty much guaranteed – as long as he doesn’t botch too many of his lines.
1st quarter Liberal contributions – $1,699,782.82
http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin2/detail_report.aspx
1st quarter Conservative contributions – $4,469,470.03
http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin2/detail_report.aspx
Perspective, it’s a thing.
Considering his “ideas” shown so far, he’d better rely on his appearance.
In one of the millions of articles on Justin Trudeau,there was a Reporter who mentioned that she had to go see Justin at a local meet ‘n greet because her fifteen year old daughter demanded they do so.
That’s Justin’s constituency, apart from the Old Liberals slavering to get back at the trough,teenage girls,who think he’s oh-so-cool-and-groovy.
Maybe he IS “cool” by today’s standards. But what else does he have to offer us.
Nothing.
And if I wanted a “cool” PM, I’d have voted for John Lee Hooker back in the day.
This is precisely why I voted for JT, several times.
From what I hear, $800k and change is close to “over a million dollars” and the 6,000 donors for whom it’s their first political contribution? Yeah, shot in the dark.
The brilliance of this is that JT is going to suck up a bunch of the left’s money. This, in turn, will be used to pay off debts and give them some strength heading into the next general election. The stronger the Liberals, the weaker the NDP, and the left’s vote gets split: Big Orange gets crushed in Quebec, their donations dwindle to a trickle, and their one major asset (donated just prior to campaign finance reform by Big Union), a building in downtown Ottawa which is so overleveraged from financing election after election, may soon be gone.
In time (and probably not much of it, either) JT goes the way of three previous Liberal leaders and Canada gets a twofer! JT raising even close to what they’re claiming is nothing but good for Canada, folks!
So what you’re saying is Canada is playing Hank Rearden to the UN’s Washington?
And don’t forget, Desmarais provided the means for Paul Martin to buy Canada Steamship Lines,which Power Corp. owned. Paul Martin couldn’t have gotten financing for a $195 million purchase without Desmarais influence.
Martin was to be even more in-the-pocket of Power Corp., imagine a PM who owed his entire fortune to Desmarais. Wonder if there might have been any favoritism?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Steamship_Lines
This article from Wikipedia I’m sure touches only on the barest of facts,but the incestuousness of Power Corp and the Liberal Party is right there for everyone to see. Interesting that Maurice Strong was once CEO of Power.
http://www.mauricestrong.net/index.php/speeches-remarks3/73-paul-martin-publication
An excerpt from “Come Hell or High Water” by Paul Martin ,in which he describes his mentors,Strong and Desmarais in loving terms.
Geez, you’re a good lookin’ fella when you wear a suit, lance. You could be a suit model.
;>)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9xSPQPM-Rc
Sadly I work with someone here in Calgary originally from the maritime who has a hatred for everything the government does but loves Justin Trudeau because he thinks that evil Stephen Harper is just making up all this stuff about his ineptitude and I know another older lady in her 50’s that loves Trudeau for his boyish good looks.
They both want to vote for him.
I agree Gen Lee, and I disagree with Anne. JT cannot sway votes from the Left and the Right at once. Especially when he has nothing to offer center Right voters except that which pushed them to vote for Harper in the first place.
Here are the 2 keys to another CPC majority:
1) balance the budget!
2) keep a lid/muzzle on the social conservatives in the party.
Enjoy
set you free “As long as we’re making fun of somebody’s appearance, we can all have a good laugh by looking in the mirror.”
Sorry to hear you’re unfortunate looking? I don’t laugh when looking in the mirror, I just smile.
Justin Trudeau is truly and odd character. For some reason, women seemed to like his old man. Is there a term for attraction to acne scars?
Stockwell Day was skewered for being ripped and buffed in a wet suit by the media.
Now with regard to Justy Shiny, the well dressed man……
…..Crickets
Case in point.
Some one in the lib benches is acting to get an emergency debate in the house and it’s not the libs leader.
So the strategy obviously is one of smoke, mirrors, and duct tape so the leader doesn’t say anything that could be construed as an actual position on anything.
Justin can’t do this for ever, eventually he has to take a position, and when he does, he stumbles spectacularly.
He has yet to master the teleprompter like that community organizer.
I’m surprised Turdeau isn’to wearing capris worwith his girlie v neck.
Lance, M. Trudeau isnt trying to appeal to the likes of you and I. He does not care that we disapprove of his clothes. His target is young voters of Canada (by that I mean those 30 years old or younger). He is trying to appear to them as a regular guy. Someone you could throw a frisbee with in the park.
By’s, yer forgetting that one picture of Shiny Pony smoking da peace pipe with da Hunger Strike/Fast/Liquidity diet Chief Spence eh. That picture will out surpass any fund raising effort to date. If there’s one thing non- Aboriginal Canadians can’t collectively stomach, it’s the mismanagement and hidden spending contained on the reserves. If the CPC got their act together on a full disclosure accountability plan for moving First Nations into mainstream society, it would be Harper in a land slide. But the PMO is too stunned fer dat!
It’s funny: I’m about the same age as Justin Trudeau, but our lives are in stark contrast I simply can’t imagine what it would be like to be him. I grew up in a poor English Canadian family in a poor north Ontario town, and started working full-time before I turned 18.
I was reviewing my work history the other day, and discovered that I’ve held 23 full-time jobs since I graduated high school at 17. At about the same time Justin was hanging out with the enlightened, pot-smoking youth of Katimavik, I was pounding railway spikes, and living and working with a very different class of people.
By the time I reached my early twenties, I had worked on a rail gang; worked shoveling sawdust and doing ridiculously dangerous work on the slasher deck of an antiquated sawmill, (a place which claimed more than one life). I had worked in an electronics repair shop extracting mangled porn tapes from VCR’s and for a rather unpopular newspaper selling subscriptions over the phone. I had worked as an industrial electrical apprentice, and learned first-hand just how cold the high steel of an unfinished building can be in January. I had had small successes and spectacular failures in my own business as an industrial photographer – where I did everything from working underground in gold mines to hanging out the side of a bush plane with a rope tied around my waist: a camera in one hand, and a thermos of hot peppermint schnapps provided by my eccentric pilot in the other.
I have lived many adventures in a hardscrabble pursuit of some way to escape my destiny as a nobody; but I have never imagined that any of them fitted me for a role as a leader of men. I can’t begin to imagine what Justin Trudeau can look on in his own life that would mark him as a leader.
I know that very few people in our political class have actually shared much of the experience of the working poor – for all they like to talk about it; but the disparity is especially stark in M. Trudeau’s case. Perhaps it’s because he tries so hard and so very consciously to reflect what he imagines are common qualities.
I think that he may actually be successful in connecting with young Millenials simply because so many of them have not yet had to come to grips with the everyday demands and pressures that the rest of us consider the realities of adult life.
Most of the people that will vote for JT do not follow politics and have the attention span of a gnat. He’s good looking and seems nice is the depth of his fawning admirers in the shallow end of the gene pool. It worked for Obama whom JT admires and wants to emulate. Most of SDA followers take politics seriously but it’s the kiddie set and gullible that could make the difference in the fate of the country. The CBC crowd, not the Sun news crowd. Logic and common sense will have little bearing on the outcome of the next election. Obama proved the sizzle is stronger that the steak when he was elected to a second term. Can easily happen here too.
Wow. I can totally tell that Justin Trudeau is a regular guy because he wears regular guy shorts. I’d be a fool not to vote for him now. Regular guy shorts versus sound domestic and international policy. What’s to consider?
His Capri pants must have been in the wash.
I can totally tell that Justin Trudeau is a regular guy because he wears regular guy shorts.
Those are regular guy shorts? Geeze, I grew out of short pants years ago. You must have meant an eastern regular guy.
Manginas, no shortage these days…
I grew out of short pants years ago.
short pants are very popular here in AZ; and, sandals with socks
The Liberals are at 35% and the CPC is at 30%.
A new leader brings a surge in the polls. We saw this with Dion and Ignatieff. Some problems?
#1. The money will not be sustained for the Liberals. The people who have given, have given. They are new to the game and jumped on the train. The idea of giving regularly in order to build the party won’t rest well with them. They are the Facebook “like” clickers. Slackivists.
#2. The “Per-vote-subsidy” is dying quickly now. By 2015 it will have been completely phased out. This will hugely hurt left-wing parties because the members of these parties believe that giving money is something “the government does”. The donations are going to plummet for the leftists, while the conservatives will keep chugging along with their $4 million quarterly reports.
#3. The attack ads will continue. The MSM thinks the attack ads have failed because people aren’t immediately turning on Trudeau.
They don’t get it.
The attack ads plant doubt and ideas that slowly fester over time. It took months for people to associate “He didn’t come back for you” with Michael Ignatieff’s cynical play for leadership. Even after millions spent and months of air time many voters didn’t even know who Michael Ignatieff was.
It takes time.
#4. Justin’s main job is to destroy Mulcair. Thomas Mulcair and his NDP shouldn’t even be given the platform of real government to air their mentally retarded views. The NDP is the enemy of Canada and must never be allowed to form government. Even if it means a Liberal win once and a while.
Justin Trudeau is just the ticket to take the NDP back down to Alexa numbers.
#5. 30% support in the polls is about the basement for the CPC. The Liberals are only currently up by 5%.
In 2015, Harper will pay off the debt and do a “aren’t we awesome” summer pre-campaign all the while spending millions smearing the Liberals as losers. Then in September the real campaign kicks off and another $20 million will be spent winning back soft-supporters.
Justin Trudeau will most likely be leader of the opposition in 2015 and Mulcair will be on the E.I. rolls where he belongs.
short pants are very popular here in AZ; and, sandals with socks
Heh, okay. The west isn’t what it used to be…of course, the real west is still here, and they don’t wear short pants.
They do get a good laugh out of those who do, though…Justine’s ladies in waiting.
Six months from now, when the shiny is off the pony, when the popularity seeking social media stunts have turned boring, when the fundraising goes soft, it will be a good thing to rub the braggart’s nose in his excessive narcissism.