Really? What Fun!
Not content with upsetting the opposition through recently released campaign advertisements unkindly setting Stephane Dion's hair on end in English Canada, those dastardly Conservatives have unleashed another set for the delectation of French Canada. Oh dear, how very inconvenient for the newly-engaged leader of the Liberals. Reminders of past misdeeds and even un-deeds are always such a bloody nuisance.
Especially when you're running yourself ragged claiming to have triumphed in those very areas where you've failed. And even when these little truths are less than helpfully pointed out, you cling to the self-induced myth that you tried but the opposition ham-strung all your good intentions while you held the balance of power. Such trifling bits and pieces of nuisance data, after all.
So here is the Conservative plan, to engage Canadians in a frank-but-funny look at the successes of the enterprising Liberals, past and promised. Kind of reminds one of the Conservative record when they've been sitting on their haunches too long in power, which does occur occasionally, more by accident than design. Politicians are, after all, politicians.
That lovably sly old French adage of being hoisted on one's own petard has the potential like little else does to have us rolling in the aisles with laughter. And if you're laughing at someone, or something, or say a political party then how on earth can you possibly take it seriously? You cannot, that's why this ploy is so preciously engaging for the Conservatives, so irksomely inconvenient for the Liberals.
"The damage to the Liberal brand is still there, and that's what the Conservative ads are focusing on" commented Antonia Maioni, political science professor at McGill, sagely. "What these ads are trying to do is portray the [Liberal] party as a joke." Well, joke's on them, Canadians never quite were able to chuckle over the endless scandals, governing inadequacies, never-fulfilled promises, scraping away of social policies and hauteur of the Liberal party.
"We're in Canada, I remind you. this kind of stuff is not good for the political system. We'll be positive. There are no plans to my knowledge for us to reply to this kind of garbage," Michael Ignatieff sniffed sanctimoniously. As though. We won't have to wait very long, in fact we've already been exposed to more than enough tarnished-without-humour allegations from that side targeting the other.
"We're focusing on things that Stephane Dion focused [on] in Quebec. He focused on the environment and he told Quebecers that he had a good record on that. And we're telling the truth, that the record is not there" claims industry minister Maxime Bernier. Almost right, Mr. Bernier, the record is there, that when the Liberals had the opportunity they hadn't the inclination to follow through and that's what people will remember.
They'll remember the arrogant complacence of the 'little man' from Shawinigan; they'll remember the fiscal mean-spiritedness of Paul Martin and his subsequent incapacity to make decisions, his fall-back position of blaming the U.S. whenever convenient. They'll continue to see Stephane Dion as a hypocritical intellectual elitist incapable of performing. They'll increasingly view Stephen Harper as a firmly principled leader.
Until, that is, he proves otherwise. Then the Liberals will be laughing all the way to the polls.
Especially when you're running yourself ragged claiming to have triumphed in those very areas where you've failed. And even when these little truths are less than helpfully pointed out, you cling to the self-induced myth that you tried but the opposition ham-strung all your good intentions while you held the balance of power. Such trifling bits and pieces of nuisance data, after all.
So here is the Conservative plan, to engage Canadians in a frank-but-funny look at the successes of the enterprising Liberals, past and promised. Kind of reminds one of the Conservative record when they've been sitting on their haunches too long in power, which does occur occasionally, more by accident than design. Politicians are, after all, politicians.
That lovably sly old French adage of being hoisted on one's own petard has the potential like little else does to have us rolling in the aisles with laughter. And if you're laughing at someone, or something, or say a political party then how on earth can you possibly take it seriously? You cannot, that's why this ploy is so preciously engaging for the Conservatives, so irksomely inconvenient for the Liberals.
"The damage to the Liberal brand is still there, and that's what the Conservative ads are focusing on" commented Antonia Maioni, political science professor at McGill, sagely. "What these ads are trying to do is portray the [Liberal] party as a joke." Well, joke's on them, Canadians never quite were able to chuckle over the endless scandals, governing inadequacies, never-fulfilled promises, scraping away of social policies and hauteur of the Liberal party.
"We're in Canada, I remind you. this kind of stuff is not good for the political system. We'll be positive. There are no plans to my knowledge for us to reply to this kind of garbage," Michael Ignatieff sniffed sanctimoniously. As though. We won't have to wait very long, in fact we've already been exposed to more than enough tarnished-without-humour allegations from that side targeting the other.
"We're focusing on things that Stephane Dion focused [on] in Quebec. He focused on the environment and he told Quebecers that he had a good record on that. And we're telling the truth, that the record is not there" claims industry minister Maxime Bernier. Almost right, Mr. Bernier, the record is there, that when the Liberals had the opportunity they hadn't the inclination to follow through and that's what people will remember.
They'll remember the arrogant complacence of the 'little man' from Shawinigan; they'll remember the fiscal mean-spiritedness of Paul Martin and his subsequent incapacity to make decisions, his fall-back position of blaming the U.S. whenever convenient. They'll continue to see Stephane Dion as a hypocritical intellectual elitist incapable of performing. They'll increasingly view Stephen Harper as a firmly principled leader.
Until, that is, he proves otherwise. Then the Liberals will be laughing all the way to the polls.
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