Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Why Harper's law and order platform closes the deal

More specifically it has to do with the promise to start naming young thugs that have by the grace of past liberal adminstrations, been able to maintain their anominity in the neighbourhoods they reside in.

It plays to the soccermoms that go to the ramparts whenever the authorities notify them a sexual offender has just moved into the neighbourhood. Presently the police are obligated to notify communities if a sex offender has moved in. I always knew when I was in my formative years that if I did something that my parents disagreed with that repercussions would be forthcoming if they found out, this also applies on the community scale.

What this does, is it allows parents the ability to protect their children from those that would do them harm, by having the ability to identify a credible threat. The opposition by denouncing this is merely reinforcing the "beer and popcorn" concept that they believe parents cannot raise their own children.

Like I've pointed out before, if the opposition ever got its way, in two election cycles liberal, NDP, and Green candidates will be attacking conservatives for trying to privatize childcare or creating a "two tier" system that allows parents to determine how their children are raised.

Speaking of which.

The conservative candidate in Paladeau might want to press the prince on how he and Sophie would react if they discovered a 14 year old serial sex pedophile was living nex door.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Dion's deficit

I'll hand it to Dion. If I was going to announce deficit inducing policies there is no better person to put front and center than the man who wrecked Ontario's economy.

BTW
That promise of a catastrophic national drug plan? Shades of the gun registry.
Not only did they promise this the last election, but the one before that, and the one before that, all the way back to 1993. The other argument is that estimates bespoke of a price tag of 7 to 12 billion the last time this was floated out, not 900 million.

Either Dion is purposely lowballing the figure or the two guys that came up with this policy are out to sabotage Dion's campaign.

Oh and to be fair. Ritz's off hand comments are fair game. However, why did it take this long for the comments to become public? The fact that it coincides with poor liberal poll numbers seems less than a coincidence.

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