Start rant.
I am SO TOTALLY SICK of hearing from so-called experts that this guy is a genius.
He isn’t. His candidate won BECAUSE JOHN TORY DIDN’T RUN.
That’s it. THAT’S IT.
Rant completed.
I am SO TOTALLY SICK of hearing from so-called experts that this guy is a genius.
He isn’t. His candidate won BECAUSE JOHN TORY DIDN’T RUN.
That’s it. THAT’S IT.
Rant completed.
Susan D. on the Grits getting in on the pre-writ ad game, here.
My take? The problem isn’t the tactic. The problem is the strategy.
The Reformatory campaigns worked because they defined two unknowns – Dion and Ignatieff – before they could define themselves.
Harper is a known quantity. The Liberal leader-to-be isn’t.
Negative always works best when you are creating an impression. Not changing an impression.
Susan’s yarn, here, on the (smart) Rae decision to get tough. Overdue.
Nay-sayers will say it’s closing the barn door after the horse has fled, etc., but that’s not the problem. The problem is that the Reformatories’ anti-Dion and anti-Ignatieff ads served to define Dion and Ignatieff before they could define themselves.
That’ll be the problem, once again, in 2013 or so: the Grits will pick another shiny new leader, and the Cons will spend millions to smear him/her before the election.
The Reformatory leader is a known quantity; the Grit leader-to-be isn’t. Attack ads always work best with the latter, not the former.
So, now you need to send a message right back at Rob Ford. Start organizing against him; raise money; recruit others; do everything you can to ensure that there is a candidate who will beat this troglodyte at the ballot box.
Leaders are supposed to bring people together, not drive them apart. This man is a disgrace, and he needs to be taught a lesson.
Let’s do it.
…so says the Progressive Conservative whose party we reduced to two seats. Spare me, darling.
We ain’t dead yet.
It’s going to be a tough summer to be a Grit.”
Another royal tour, another bunch of opinion columns decrying the royals.
Look, I’m Irish and I’m a republican, and I have been since I read Yeats at the age of 13. But, honestly: why do some people get their kilts in such a knot about the Windsors coming to visit?
I mean, it’s not like they’re calling for the mass-murder of gays – like the “religious leaders” the Harper government permitted into Canada this very week. It’s not like they’re neo-Nazis – like haters the Harper government permitted into Canada a few weeks ago.
As guests go, and in comparative terms, they’re quite inoffensive. Sure, they cost taxpayers a lot, and they’re an anachronistic anti-democratic institution. But so’s the Senate – to which Harper appointed some of his defeated cronies just a few weeks ago.
See a trend, here? I say we should keep the Queen as our leader, and ship the Harper cabal over to Britain, to take up residence in the Tower of London.
Who’s with me?
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