— Musings —04.05.2011 06:00 AM
KCCCC Day 11: Anatomy of a sloppy campaign
- How are the Conservatives doing in this campaign? Not well, as I’ve written for the past week. Every day, it seems, events conspire – through bad luck, through Liberal/NDP/Bloc war room hijinks, through sheer Conservative war room/campaign incompetence – to derail the Reformatory message of the day. When you consider how disciplined and focused the Cons were in 2004, 2006 and 2008, it’s pretty surprising. Here’s the anatomy of one day, yesterday, that again went awry.
- Ethics: In the wake of the sponsorship affair, the Conservatives solemnly promised to hold themselves a higher ethical standard. In fairness, they haven’t had an sponsorship-sized scandals yet (although In and Out mess, I suspect, will come very close). In recent months, however, we’ve seen one demi-scandal after another. The latest, of course, involves senior PMO advisor Bruce Carson and his associate, a former call girl. Carson had a lengthy criminal record and had been disbarred; apparently, this didn’t impair his ability to work for Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney or Stephen Harper. In the latter case, we were told yesterday, Carson disclosed his criminal record to Harper’s Chief of Staff. Harper, for his part, asked us to believe that no one told him. He concluded the day, plaintively, with this wonderfully circular claim: “I don’t know why I did not know.” Net result: Harper’s message of the day was, yet again, hijacked by members of his own team.
- Messaging/Visuals: Speaking of messaging, anyone know what Harper’s message of the day was, Monday? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? I can tell you what Harper wanted it to be, but what you actually remember is his absurdly comic spin on an ATV, wearing a helmet that made him resemble that irritating, macrocephalic alien on The Flintstones. His message, meanwhile, was about scrapping the long gun registry, yet again – but what we got was the Great Gazoo on an ATV, plus some old guy who had a record, and an escort who knew more members of cabinet than Hill and Knowlton. For a guy hunting, as it were, for a majority – and thereby in desperate need of female votes – why the Hell start fulminating, angrily, against gun control? When gun control is, you know, very popular with women both urban and rural? Net result: a mangled message, at best. Lost votes, at worst.
- Opposition: The damned Liberals, meanwhile, had another good day. They handed out 600,000 abbreviated copies of their platform to morning commuters from coast to coast, Ignatieff himself getting in on the fun with paper-deliveries to startled ferry-riders in Dartmouth. Later, they had a pithy line – “vets, not jets” – and managed to look patriotic and parsimonious at the same time. Net result: they kicked Harper’s keester.
- The backrooms: Coincidentally, here’s what I had to say on that very subject in this moning’s Sun: “Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and his caucus, of course, have been doing very well on the campaign trail. But among unelected Grits, it is Richardson and Ashworth who have made the most difference. From the time of their arrival in Ottawa, Richardson and Ashworth have firmly taken control, and gently moved aside many of the ineffectual, self-absorbed senior staffers Ignatieff had around him (that is, the ones who took the party even lower than Stephane Dion did). The pair have given the Liberal Party’s efforts a maturity and strategic sense that, until just a few weeks ago, it simply didn’t have.”
- The people: Think I’m wrong? I often am, but check out the latest Nanos. The Conservative campaign is losing ground outside the West, big time.
- Pic of the day: I’m sorry, this one of the Great Gazoo is a classic. Caption contest!
Logan Day, come home. All is forgiven.
Harpo’s earliest TV appearance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoSiKpqvD9Q
Thanks! I needed that!!
Decima had the gap trimmed to 7 yesterday. Nanos down to 9 today, and the Grits over 40% in Ontario for the first time in a long time that I can remember. Empirical evidence that the Liberals good campaign and the Cons sloppy one may be starting to turn a bit (subject of course until the next poll)
According to Nanos the Liberals have taken the lead in Ontario. A statistically insignificant lead, true, but what is more important is the trendline. The Liberals are winning back soft Conservative voters.
The Iggy Hat likely hurt more than helped in 905.
Y’day I was wondering if the polls would pull back after Harpo started in on the LGR again. It’s popular in Qc. so not surprised to see that result.
Harpo, please keep talking coalition, LGR and can someone get him to mention cutting funding to arts again…that was a 2008 beauty!
C’mon LPC…CHANGE the polls!
Oh, and let Harper’s goons continue kicking out potential voters, too! Like youth and veterans…
Caption
“No plan, just spinning my wheels”
Good one.
“And they said I was too unbalanced to ride a bike. Look, Ma, only two hands!”
I liked the seventies. I had the Pistols and the Ramones. Also, hair.
Gord, I’m used to not liking you. Don’t tell me you’re a Costello fan.
Either way, XTC rules!
Gord, I see musically we can agree.
Complaining that Iggy is taking us back to the hay day of the 70’s though, that’s only going to play to the core. And besides, it isn’t true. One thing Ignatieff will do though is put us back on course to a Just Society. Harper has had humane liberal notions in his gun sights for some time now. Also, if as you say Iggy wants to return to the 70’s, then Harper would like us to return to the old testament when punishment reigned supreme.
When are the Conservatives?
So Obama has done a good job then?
As for the LPC platform being panned, does that include the Harper endorsing G&M which liked it?
Yeah socialist obstacle who gave trillions to Wall Street.
It’s only 10:30 am here Gord but by all means, have another drink.
I guess Harper is a communist for buying GM, which is still below its IPO price.
Well done Comrade.
Ryan is the king of magical thinking, Tinkerbell. Bold yes, but realistic — no. Cheering for a fairy tale might make you feel better, but it’s still just a fairy tale.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/02/rep_paul_ryans_daring_budget_p.html
and this
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/contraction-is-contractionary/
Citing David Brooks about a Republican proposal is like citing a madam about the morality of a brothel.
Caption: Harper and friends on new campaign bus.
Don’t forget this one Warren – a student who has never voted before and had a picture of herself with Iggy was booted from a Conservative rally:
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/decision2011/2011/04/04/17873761.html
I caught both her story and the veterans’ story on the Chronicle-Herald’s website very early this morning Pacific Time (5AM and shortly after respectively). It’s 8:24 PM PT now and her story, especially, is all over the place.
Actually that’s a pretty pasted on crocodile smile, he actually looked terrified I thought.
“Universally” panned, like the Globe calling it “prudent and pragmatic or the Star likes it and even the Post had mixed views saying, for example, “As the National Post has advocated on more than one occasion, the party favours establishment of a civilian oversight board for the RCMP, along the lines of the one already in place for the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service. The inability to reform the RCMP has been one of the biggest failures of the Tories’ five years in office. Indeed, under the Harper government, the rot within our once-proud national police force has gone from bad to worse.”
None of those papers have been particularly friendly to Michael Ignatieff. Columnists who have been regular Ignatieff detractors like Chantal Hebert are praising it.
If this is “universally” panned, then give me more of it!
But I suspect by saying “universally” you are using that old unreliable Conservative math again.
“Those are corporate read: political editorials that you cite not opinion pieces where the author?s name is listed.”
Pettifogging. You don’t really want to contribute anything of substance?
Caption…”I am only five minutes from the Mexican border, they will never find me. Does my head look big in this helmet? I’ll have to stop for a minute to clean the flies out of my teeth.”
I think you may have missed the dark horse/emerging story from yesterday.
Three first time voters, all students, registered to attend a Harper rally (and WTF is that anyway? having ordinary Canadians register to hear their own PM???) and they were summarily and rudely kicked out. One and her friend because of a Facebook picture of her. Another because of a bumper sticker on his car. This is just downright frightening kind of stuff a creepy Big Brother “our eyes on you” kind of way, when ordinary Canadians must register to hear their PM and banned from participating in democracy if they don’t fit the right mold.
But that was not all.
Another student was kicked out of a Harper event in Guelf yesterday. She properly registered to attend the Harper event (again, WTF?) and attended the non-protest, pro-vote non-partisan pro-student rally and then was booted out by the Conservatives for having attended the rally.
Kids excercising their right of freedom of association, eagerly and keenly participating in the democratic process by encouraging others to vote and seeking to hear the PM, banned, kicked out, humiliated by the RCMP, offended by the Conservatives.
And that is still not all.
Yesterday, the Harperites also banned a veteran from attending one of Harper’s precious sermons because he had exercise his right to free expression on the treatment of veterans.
What the hell is going on here?
It’s one thing for Harper to refuse to answer questions from the media. It’s dumb and even the Sun calls it anti-democratic, but I get that for him the risks associated with being accountable are greater than the media getting upset at not being able to do their job. So he’s afraid of the media, so what, right?
It’s one thing for Harper to refuse a one-on-one debate with Ignatieff. It’s dumb and everyone can see that he’s chickened out. But I get that for him the risks associated with going toe-to-toe with someone on the issues are too great. So he’s chicken sh*t to answer questions, so what, right?
But this is wholly different. Not just because he refuses even to meet with ordinary Canadians or to even let us hear him speak. But here we have ordinary Canadians, not only trying to participate in the democratic process and educate themselves, being shut out because they are not the “right kind” of Canadians. Ordinary Canadians being banned by the Conservatives for exercising their most basic and fundamental rights. And being spied upon!
This is the most creepy and eerie thing to come out of the Conservative Party so far.
The story here is not that the Harper campaign is operating in a bubble as is common practice with front-runner campaigns. The story, it seems to me, is how bad they are at executing that strategy.
The incidents that Ted references above; along with the Carson affair; are going to be the story lines of todays Harper campaign and not the Tory volunteer firefighter tax credit.
Yet another days message not delivered.
Ah yes, the banality of evil.
In fairness to the RCMP, it’s not clear it was them who was doing the shooing:
more likely, it’s the self-styled Secret Service PMO staffers, like the ones who chased away this advocate for homeless veterans at a Halifax non-event last week:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1236896.html
They would have only done the shooing on the direction of the party organizers. They wouldn’t know who was invited and who not, who was the “right kind of person” and who not, who was important enough to hear – not ask questions of course just hear – Harper speak and who not.
Read elsewhere:
Canadian democracy – by invitation only.
Geez… if this is the current MO for the PMO, well, looks like people like you and me Ted (given WK.com & FB profiles/postings) will be on the outside looking in at any CPC event.
Harper engineered the unravelling of Stockwells leadership and by all appearences it looks like stockboy released Steve’s majic helmet carpet ride. Revenge is sweet !! I can see Stock on the phone, Ride an ATV Steve, it looks Manly. Put a really big helmet on though……Really big big helmet…………….
Caption- I’m not only undependable, but I’m a bit of a kook
As in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoSiKpqvD9Q
Fred: But you said you were supposed to serve us, to give us what we want
Gazoo: My dear fellow, I’m not only undependable, but I’m a bit of a kook
. . . .
And since I am supposed to serve you, I will try. But take heed, don’t ask for more than you can handle, you may get it!
This is good for Harper.
Cue Bev Oda………..NOT!
Ottawa?s fighter-jet estimate ?all hogwash,? U.S. watchdog warns
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/ottawas-fighter-jet-estimate-all-hogwash-us-watchdog-warns/article1971274/
Gord, you do that sort of thing ALL the time.
Says the guy who went to the wall defending Rush Limbaugh. You wouldn’t know impartial if Jesus Himself returned, to ask you to love ALL your neighbours.
Wheeler’s an expert on military COSTS — on how they invariably escalate far, far beyond their manufacturers’ rosy predictions. And he’d worked for the non-partisan GAO, and for both Republican and Democratic administrations, to tell one and all when they’re being spun… or just plane lied to.
Here’s another article summarizing his latest counsel, which includes the radical suggestion:
Fly before you buy. (i.e., make sure the damn things work and know what they’ll actually cost, first, before signing the dotted line).
Damn Communist!
http://www.embassymag.ca/dailyupdate/view/48
Attack messenger when you’ve lost.
Do a chicken dance like your boss
Gord, Gord, Gord. You really ought to lay off the acid.
The best source is the Vice Admiral in charge of the program.
See link for details. You can’t buy them for less, not from Crazy Jim Flaherty’s discount shop, not from Army Surplus in Bozeman Montana, not anywhere. Well… you could but you’d have to buy them without an engine!
Do you believe Venlet or choose to believe grumpy Laurie Hawn and his masters instead? Maybe you believe Vice Admiral Venlet is part of the VLC (Vast Liberal Conspiracy) you believe in?
Or how about that left-wing news outfit Reuters which reports a cost of > 150 million? What about that Israel which purchased theirs for $148 million?
What, a Conservative taking the Lord’s name in vain?
“Yabba-Dabba-Doo – Don’t toy with me, Barn”
Yippee!! I sure love me some mud!
where’s “the other jim”
Bumpy Trail! http://i.imgur.com/a4mn6.gif
But they are NOT saying they will NOT buy jets. They’re just saying not these jets. Or not now. Actually, they don’t quite seem to know.
They’re not sure because they’re not pre-empting or pre-ordaining the proper process: they want to actually follow it — namely, do a new needs assessment, and formulate a proper Statement of Requirements (not a retroactive, reverse engineered one that gerrymanders it so that only the model that’s already been selected fits the bill), which’ll determine how many units of what type are needed (incl. what features are absolutely req’d & which ones also wanted), within the max. allotted budget, then put it out to tender to see who’ll guarantee the best time-frames, regional industrial benefits, and prices.
Fine, but that doesn’t mean they will save a truckload of money that will be available to spend by not buying jets as the poster I was responding to claims, now does it?
They could buy some off the shelf jets tomorrow from Britain. The F35 is the military equivalent of vapourware.
I’m west of Tulk & I have positive memories of Trudeau. Then again tinfoil isn’t part of my wardrobe
One way or the other, Trudeau at least established the principle that living atop ancient dead plankton doesn’t actually make you a special, um, snowflake.
Caption: “How do I put this thing in reverse? I think my old accountibility platform is still alive…”
Gord for a tenth the cost of the F35’s you could buy three times the the number of predator drones that we could get off the shelf today.
We could use them to monitor the thousands of miles of coastline; including in the new arctic ocean looking for illegal foreign fishing fleets, ocean bulk carriers & tankers dumping bilge oil and ships trying to test our sovereignty in the arctic.
When, if ever, the F35’s are ever delivered they will cost, at least, triple the price the Tories are saying and have little use to our military.
Gord, I’m talking about the drones with camera and/or missiles; but just the cameras are important from my POV. We have a real need for surveillance over our oceans. The F18’s will holdup for another fifteen twenty years if we actually needed them in a case like Libya. Hell the Seakings are 40 years+ past their retirement date and they’re still flying.
Caption
In the words of the Great Gazoo himself
“I’m not only undependable, I’m a bit of a kook.”
just so we’re all on the same page:
“There was an alien introduced to the series in October of 1965: “The Great Gazoo” was a little green man from outer space who crash landed on earth in his flying saucer.
pix here: http://orangeorb.blogspot.com/2007/10/noory-meet-flintstones.html
Liberal partisans here keep on talking about all the money that will be saved by cancelling the jets, but the Liberal platform is completely vague on this issue. How much will actually be saved if anything? You don’t know, unless the plan is not to buy any planes at all — which is visibly not the case. You don’t know what planes a Liberal government will buy or at what cost. So, how do you know you will save a truckload of money that will be used to spend. Maybe nothing at all will be saved. Maybe it will end up costing more. For all the talk about Conservative hidden agendas, the Liberal agenda here is certainly not very clear…
see above
http://warrenkinsella.com/2011/04/kcccc-day-11-anatomy-of-a-sloppy-campaign/#comment-32968
Thank you, that makes my point perfectly.
Um, no, it doesn’t.
For one thing, the research the PBO did determined that even if we end up buying the SAME items in a competition, we’d probably save 20% in the procurment costs. Probably more, since there might be a delay, and as the GAO pointed out last week, the costs will actually get cheaper the further along those F35s are into their production, as they become more efficient.
For another, the new Statement of Requirement that’s need- rather than wish-list- driven may find that we won’t really need ANY multi-role fighters, as opposed to a variety of more specialized things (incl. drones), so we may save the whole $30-B on the wrong sorts of things, but spend $20-B on the right sorts of things.
Again, it’s too hard to say when the CPC won’t even release the suspect, after-the-fact SoR that they didn’t even admit existed until recently, and are now still treating as classified.
You just made my point for me again….
The fact is you don’t know. You don’t know what you would save. You could “probably” save on the procurement costs if the PBO is right, which is far from certain. Judging by his budget estimates, he is certainly not God — he may not even be competent. You may or may not need the planes. You may indeed save $30bn on the wrong things and spend $20 on the right things. Or maybe not. But that`s exactly my point — you can`t argue that cancelling the planes will save $30bn that you can use for nice new shiny spending initiatives (or whatever other amount you wish to claim)as some posters here are saying. You just don’t know that.
On another note…Frankly I don`t want to get into a debate as to whether the planes are neeeded or not. I don`t know. I’m not the military. The problem is, I suspect Ignatieff doesn’t know either. To me, this smells of the EH-101 fiasco, and if there is one thing I hate, it’s politicians of all stripes (yes, all stripes…they are all guilty of it) playing with serious issues to attempt to cash in politically. It`s easy to trash the military (and corporations, and evil rich people) in order to pander to the lowest common denominator out there. But ultimately, it’s wrong if you care about more than just power.
and which numbers has the PBO been off on, then, Marc, even with the CPC cutting his budget in half and systematically withholding information from him?
Because it’s the TD Bank economists that were wildly off for the last few years about the deficits and have revised THEIR numbers to match HIS for the latest fiscal year, to end at $40-B in the whole. And it’s the TD who have wildly optimistic forecasts about the future years: on the assumption that — hah! — the CPC would start cutting; even tho’ the first thing they did when they saw a little wiggle room was to EXPAND program spending by $2 more Billion in the new budget.
This is nicer look:
http://www.fiberglassbodies.org/fiberglass_truck_bodies.html
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But
By consider Canada weather too much rain or snow and muddy road in farm and rural
and use less gass by 4 cylinders car and able to attached all snow removal tractor and cut grass and clean garabage
and etc
small truck needs with cover hood
http://craziestgadgets.com/2008/05/28/smart-car-monster-truck/
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&biw=1259&bih=483&site=search&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=small+truck+photo&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
http://www.google.ca/search?q=truck+photo&hl=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=SkGbTaqHE4G4sQPA662DBA&ved=0CDIQsAQ&biw=1259&bih=483
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WK – plz delete the above post: it’s messed up the formatting for the whole thread, and is just pics of toy trucks etc.
to well & others:
please use a link shortener like http://shrinkthislink.com/ when cutting & pasting links if they have more than 30 characters or so between slashes
Could this be part of the Conservatives next campaign ad?
http://cpcmedia.parl.gc.ca/Video/Ingaiteff-Junk%20and%20lingerie-2.wmv
They’ve joined a video clip with Michael Ignatieff saying “There is no greater fan of lingerie than me” with another clip of him saying “and so I have people touching my private parts all day long”.
Glad to see the Conservatives frat boys are hard at work, and saving the party money by using a government server.
A true conservative is one who can’t see any difference between a balconette and a demi cup 🙂
http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&biw=1259&bih=483&q=anti+intellectual+and+bullying+who+hate+smart+people&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&fp=91dacb48255a0c56
We know the best ways in any details — ads
Badly needed? No.
Replacements needed eventually? Yes.
Is Harper government telling truth about costs of F-35A fighter aircraft? No.
New tag line for Harper’s party: Truth is so Inconvenient ™
Although I’m going to stalked by Namesake again, a just released Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll has revealed that 45% of Canadians would like a majority govenment; just 20% would be happy with another minority government. Harper is on a winning strategy in talking up a majority this time around.
Huh? Where’d you get that? Now it’s you who seems deluded. The just-released H-D — which found just a 7 pt split in the latest week, BTW — doesn’t even ask that.
http://www.harrisdecima.ca/news/releases/201104/1097-conservatives-lead-seven
http://www.harrisdecima.ca/sites/default/files/releases/2011/04/04/hd-2011-04-04-en1097.pdf
You appear to be confusing it with the LEGER poll which found that 44% of all the respondents are SCARED by the possibility of a Harper majority
including 5% of CPC voters, (not-so) oddly enough.
Only 29% would like to see it. (78% of CPC supporters, & only b/w 4 & 9% of the other parties).
http://www.legermarketing.com/documents/POL/11441ENG.pdf
BTW, H-D also looked at leadership:
“Mr. Harper is viewed favourably by 45%, and unfavourably by 52%. Those viewing him unfavourably have jumped from the 43% recorded in February. Additionally, 52% represents the highest ‘unfavourable’ rating the Prime Minister has received in this tracking, dating back to the beginning of the 2008 election.
It’s on ctv.ca under storyline “Fact Check: Minority Governments the ‘new normal’?”. I can read English, Namesake.
Scot, judging by the strong lead of the Conservatives in the polls, it would seem logical that they want it to be a Harper majority. The 45% pretty much coincides with the 39-42% base support right now of the Conservatives.
Oh, I see: so when you say “a just released Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll” without a link or reference,
I shouldn’t try to fact-check by looking at their latest release — or indeed, any of the company’s own actual releases, which has nothing answering to that http://www.harrisdecima.ca/
I should try to guess where you might have been reading or hearing that from….
Where it turns out that the equally sloppy CTV source’s reference to a “recent” poll refers to this one,
from, um, LAST week, which is…
…anything but a ringing endorsement of your guy, or your take on this, and in fact is consistent with what I reported from the Leger poll above:
“Canadians would prefer a majority government be elected on May 2; they’re just not ready to hand one to either Stephen Harper or Michael Ignatieff, a new poll suggests.
The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey found 29 per cent of respondents would prefer a Conservative majority under Prime Minister Harper; another eight per cent would prefer a Tory minority.
Sixteen per cent would prefer a majority led by Liberal Leader Ignatieff, 12 per cent a Grit minority.
Combining the findings for the two leaders, the poll suggests 45 per cent would like to see a majority government of some stripe versus 20 per cent who’d be content with another minority. Another 24 per cent said they’d prefer some other result.
…At the moment, at least, the poll suggests few believe any party will capture a majority. Only 18 per cent predicted a Tory majority, just six per cent a Liberal majority.
http://ipolitics.ca/2011/03/31/majority-wanted-cp-harris-decima-poll/
Hey, where did everyone go?…..Laureena and Dimitri were just behind me a second ago…..Guys?……
Caption: “Look mom, I didn’t fall off this one!”
The main problems of conservative are:
First, they can not accept “No” seriously
secondly their massive amount of energy they put when they are “angry” to hit other party who told them NO to force them to YES
Third if you do some job to ‘Stop’ them for doing wrong or illegal and they like to do what ever they like to do
Fourth they lying too much or cover truth and not shy to do that
when you say to any conservative in political party or in any business NO
make sure you have big lawyer and big security to prevent them for any unexpecting job they may do because of anger problems they all similary have
that anger lead them to bulliness and change all toward and not act reasonably or even bring us to unwanted boxing box to hit you
If you say to them You do not like to fight again they punch you another one and keep hiting to finally must put too much energy to stop them
when review what caused all conspiracy and answer was in certain year you said No to them
Harper government was more hit to go to new election for majority
when they told Harper NO to gun registry as an example and he got angry to put all agressive to get majority to do whatever he wants
And now the Cons have plagiarized a teaparty election ad. This lot haven’t had an original thought ever. Best quote on the G&M web site: Note to Harper, if you’re going to plagiarize a campaign ad, a general rule of thumb is to pick a candidate who has more charisma than a barn.
Caption: “OK, I’m smiling, dammit!! Now where the f@$% is the BRAKE????”
I’m from west of Bloor Street (a farm in the middle of Alberta actually) and I liked Trudeau and the NEP. Still do because I put Canada first.
And how about The Man arriving in a fire truck? What next, a choo choo train? Get shot into rallies from a cannon? Guess we can guess the age of his little planners, can’t we?