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Originally Posted by Wookie
I was chatting to a senior policy advisor in Ottawa yesterday.
Basically the strategy the liberals are pulling is as such:
Ignatieff gets a freebie loss. He can have an election and lose once and the party nor public give him a hard time about it. So they do this, he loses or just wins.
If he loses Harper gets a minority AGAIN!
This causes infighting in the conservative ranks. Harper having had 4 tries now and 4 minorities is done or should be.
Problems arise in conservative party. Leadership stuff begins with Prentice and Some other guy I can't remember name. Both are polar opposites and have roots dating back to the two different parties. Mess ensues and the conservatives are a wreck.
If Ignatieff wins. Then who cares (other than conservatives obviously).
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Jim Prentice employs some fulltime staff already. He's already got his eye on the prize. This is maddening because I think this whole, "you've only won minorities, get the F out" attitude by the Conservative party can only really be sucessfully employed by the natural governing party. If you're the Tories simply being in government in a country as far left as Canada should be considered a sucess. The Conservatives are only in power now because Stephen Harper is viewed by the public as a stronger leader than a bumbling former academic, a dithering ambitious shmuck and a grandstanding idiot. I don't see how trading in someone who has a public perception as being a strong leader for an arrogrant ambitious type keeps the Conservative party above the competition leaderwise, especially when the Liberals traded in a Bumbling academic for a much more well-spoken one.