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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Can I assume that in actuality you find this sort of nativist nonsense despicable and you just forgot the green text?
You'd better hope Harper has got better weapons than that in his arsenal. That pretty much defines "weak."
I'll add this: Harper's panicked ad campaign accused Ignatieff of being "American." But it's Harper who is injecting the American rhetorical style into our politics--attack ads that are devoid of content, making nakedly jingoistic emotional appeals in an attempt to grab the moral low ground before anyone else can get there. That defines everything that is wrong with American political culture.
Let's remember that we're better than that.
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Remember that the Liberal's were highly effective with their attack ads and attack retoric from long before the conservatives really stole their playbook.
Lets not paint the Conservatives as the creator of the attack ads or the out of control rhetorical style politics.
Remember the scary west, if you elect a reform party member your giving the west a seat at the table.
Remember the cross burnings in Kelowna
Remember the Troops on the street
Or Harper marching into a room to very nazi style music
The only reason why the liberals lost their edge in attack ads is because they had no money, not because they didn't want to.