How Ontario election 2018 makes most of us feel, as helpfully described in signs
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Political pro tip: avoid asking questions for which “no” is likely to be the answer
Ouch.
Deputy Minister Wynne, we presume
Spoke to CBC’s Mike Crawley yesterday about why Kathleen Wynne is doing so badly.
Told him Wynne made herself the only face of this government – that she didn’t ever use her capable ministers or caucus to spread the Ontario Liberal gospel. She insisted on being the only Ontario Liberal people ever heard from – to the extent, even, of actually going to grocery stores to repeatedly announce beer sales, and treating it like it was the moon landing.
Being the only recognizable face of your party is fine, I told him – if you are certain you are always going to be popular forever.
No one is popular forever.
Link here.
Snippets here:
“We teach our clients that simplicity, repetition and volume work. That’s what [PC leader Doug] Ford and [NDP leader Andrea] Horwath are doing. Sounding like a deputy minister at a policy convention doesn’t work. It’s how you lose.”
And:
“A daily frenzy of seemingly-unrelated announcements doesn’t equal having a narrative. When you don’t have a narrative, you don’t have much of a chance.”
“Wynne’s Liberals have fallen everywhere”
“The Liberals have fallen pretty precipitously everywhere. So this is becoming a race between these Conservatives and the NDP.”
Great work, Team Wizard.
Chart here:
Ouch
Got that Amber Alert just as I was about to go under the scalpel. One the one hand, glad the system worked. On the other hand, disappointed the surgeon was distracted and lopped off that body part.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 14, 2018
My Trump prediction in 2012
All the way back in 2012, @kinsellawarren had an inkling about Trump. Wrote a cool song about it too. #FightTheRight pic.twitter.com/WgL35cga5c
— Richard McAdam (@RealRGM81) May 13, 2018
In yesterday walks tomorrow, etc.
@fordnation isn’t @realDonaldTrump, but it simply amazes me that Ford’s critics are reprising in 2018 the tactics that didn’t work against Trump in 2016: mocking his supporters, calling them racists or morons or both, etc. It doesn’t hurt him: it *strengthens* his base. #Onpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 13, 2018
The Kinsellian Pine Box Theory™️
You get to leave power in one of two ways.
One, you get to leave on your own two feet, at a time and place of your choosing.
Or, two, you leave in a pine box.
The latter happens when politicians start to believe their own bullshit. The latter happens when politicians gorge themselves on the pap that is being served up to them by their servile stafflings, the ones who depend upon said politicians for a paycheque. The latter happens when a politician starts to lose touch with real people, and is only hanging out with Deputy Ministers and people who are on the payroll.
Kathleen Wynne, who I like as a person – even though she didn’t even deign to respond to my long-ago offer (and that of not a few others) to help – did not leave when she could have and should have. By default, she chose the pine box.
It isn’t going to be pretty.
You’d almost think it was a two-party race, in fact
Son 2 and me drove all over multiple Ontario ridings in past few days. If the sign war is any indication, a big blue wave is coming – with lots of orange showing up in some surprising places. Red almost non-existent. #ONpoli #ONDP #ONPC #OLP
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 12, 2018