The next conservative attack ad
Can't really speculate on the format or how the script will run but I'll speculate on the basic idea here.
First
this"Last week, Ottawa-area MP Pierre Poilievre referred to "extremist elements" in the Liberal party that want to ease anti-terror laws and shut down the Air India inquiry. Liberals Omar Alghabra and Navdeep Bains called on Poilievre to apologize for making unsubstantiated accusations"
Remember they say its unsubstantiated, according to the two MP's no one in the liberal party is or associated with extremist elements.
But lets recall
this event at the liberal leadership convention.
"A flyer was circulated electronically among convention delegates denouncing Rae for having once delivered a speech to the Jewish National Fund, a group the flyer said was complicit in "war crimes and ethnic cleansing." "Rae's wife is a vice-president of the CJC (Canadian Jewish Congress), a lobby group which supports Israeli apartheid," said the flyer in bold letters superimposed over a close-up of Rae's face. "
Finished it up with a clip of Dion and his "thats not fair".
Labels: Conservative ad
The GTA gets a taste of the real Kyoto
Seems there is a bit of discontent over gas shortages in Ontario.
link"Panic would be the worst possible thing here in terms of the public, and only because it would cause more shortages and more price increases."
If folks are
upset now, just
what or
who will they blame if the Kyoto Kult gets its way?
All we need now are those
little stickers on the windshield of your vehicle like they existed during WWII.
"The 'A' sticker was issued to owners whose use of their cars was nonessential. Hand the pump jockey your Mileage Ration Book coupons and cash, and she (yes, female service station attendants) could sell you three or four gallons a week, no more. For nearly a year, A-stickered cars were not to be driven for pleasure at all.
The green 'B' sticker was for driving deemed essential to the war effort; industrial war workers, for example, could purchase eight gallons a week. Red 'C' stickers indicated physicians, ministers, mail carriers and railroad workers, and incidentally were the most counterfeited type. 'T' was for truckers, and the rare 'X' sticker went to Members of Congress and other VIPs."
Like I've pointed out, imagine the next election going into the GTA and telling soccermoms the truth about Kyoto.
Vote liberal, green, or NDP and Little Johnny or Janey can take the TTC to hockey practice.
Labels: kyoto
My version of a conservative advertisement
My Canada is about
PEACE
ORDER
and
GOOD GOVERNMENT
Labels: Conservative ad
The next election timing
Hangs on two factors now.
The speed with which the Senate passes C-288 and the 60 days to table the report after it becomes law, more specifically that report.
The Senate is going to drag its heels to make sure it becomes law by the summer, their strategy is that once the temperature soars they can beat on Harper with the backdrop of a summer heat wave to highlight the imminent crisis of global warming* (note: when the temparture rises above 20C the talking point changes from climate change to global warming). The reality check comes of course in that Harper has 60 days to table a report. Read that 60 days after it becomes law. The other hit against the liberal senators is that senate reform bill the boys in the red chamber have been holding up for almost a year, the meme almost writes itself doesn't it?
Now about that report.
The liberals didn't think Harper was going to table a report that painted a rosy picture I hope.
No sir, you won't be getting a "all things to all people, sunshine-and-lollipops-if-we-just-hold-hands-and-sing-kumbiya-we-can-save-the-planet" report. What will be in it will be the unvarnished truth about why the liberals where so afraid to take action, or to be more matter of fact, why it was the antithesis to the liberal modus operandi for winning votes throught the use of parish pump policy by poll numbers.
To save a great deal of time explaining this I'll jump ahead to the next national campaign...you can figure out on your own how we'll get there.
NDP rolls into some borough of the GTA and explains that we need to take action now on global warming (details to follow on the plan of action but it centers on following Kyoto to the letter).
Liberals roll into same spot the next day saying how the conservatives are just recycling old liberal plans that they cut the year before, some mention that if the conservatives hadn't wasted a year we could achieve our targets. Their plan also short on details but it too involves following Kyoto to the letter.
Greens do the same the next day, emphasis is placed on the point that only they have consistently advanced the need for action since day one. Ditto on Kyoto to the "t" with the caveat that they where the first to say it needed to be done.
Then Harper comes to town. Tells the crowd bluntly that if they want to see gas rationing, if you want restrictions on personal vehicle use (read:if you have access to the TTC or GO Transit you can't use a personal vehicle), then you vote for the opposition parties. If you want to be able to still drive your kids to soccer practice vote conservative (think like a soccermom with the prospect of little Janey having to travel to practice via the TTC during twilight hours you'll get the idea it's about security). You'll know what I mean if you've ever had to use public transit. A normal trip that by car would take 15 minutes becomes one hour. Now imagine how that fits into the normal two income family in the GTA. If mom and dad both work inside the city, suddenly they are faced with the prospect of a liberal government forcing them to take the TTC to work. Harper makes it clear that Kyoto is not a religion and it is not the only way.... by the way here's our five point plan.
Place that scenario in any of the MTV cities and you just handed Harper his majority.
Saving the planet and wearing that green ribbon on your lapel looks good during the photo-op but when it comes time to follow through on the plan of action somebody has to take a hit. The hit is always comparable with the size of the plan and the target to achieve.
The liberals have tied their next campaign to convincing Canadians to swallow some bitter medicine...not exactly a positive message now is it.
However the real reason this is going to hit the liberals in a nightmarish way is that the conservatives have been able in the space of less than three months to define Dion and his party as rather than being the party of the center to be the one that is tied exclusively to the Kyoto Protocol (sort of how the old Reform party was forever etched in the minds of Canadians to be under the control of a dark vast rightwing conspiracy). That leaves them nowhere to grow unless they change strategy.
Sucks to be them.
Labels: Global tax regime
Liberal party trying to entice MP's to switch parties
But will Garth keep quiet about
this for long?
"A Liberal official confirmed Thursday that former B.C. NDP premier Ujjal Dosanjh was dispatched to find out if two high-profile West Coast female New Democrats, Dawn Black and Penny Priddy, would bolt to the official Opposition."
Layton has just been given a golden opportunity to pummel the liberals viscously. I hope he doesn't pass it up. Go for the jugular Jack.
Labels: Floor crossing
Conservative moment of the month
The newest addition to the ranks of the army of niavely useful individuals?
Like to offer a debt of Gratitude to the liberal MP that was responsible for the private members bill that forces the government to achieve the Kyoto targets by 2012.
Did he not realize that anytime within the 60 day time period that the government can table a plan so draconian, so unacceptable, that shows to Canadians what you need to do to achieve the targets (higher taxes, excessive regulation, lower standard of living) that no one in their right mind would be in favour of it.
Imagine what the liberals would do if Harper tables a report saying this is the reason his government won't do it and its the basis of a n/c motion.
Catch 22
The government says it won't impose these measures and Canadians should be given the opportunity to decide if thats what they want during an election. The opposition has to campaign on a platform of higher taxes, draconian regulations, and embarrassingly lower standard of living. That or avoid such an election by rescinding the law.
The liberal parties new "useful idiot".
I wonder if this
guy and this
gal are somehow related?
Compare how this statement
"In those choices, I would be extremely worried about Mr. Harper. I personally would prefer to go with the devil we know."
is eerily similar to this one.
“Stephane Dion represents a far more informed leader on the issue than [Prime Minister] Stephen Harper,”
Separated at birth?
You be the judge.
