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Originally Posted by Daradon
I think I'm more of a Layton supporter after this one.
Lets leave the stupid smears to the American politics shall we? I know our campaigns have been getting dirtier lately, and I'm not proud of it, but up until now, though dirty and attack based, they have still pretty much focused around issues and election stuff. IE, smears about records, misquotes, etc. We haven't been 'Swift Boated', thus far.
This takes it to another level.
I don't care if he did or he didn't. This is as stupid as the Monica Lewinsky deal. I don't care about sex our leaders are having or not having. The fact that its 16 years ago makes it even dumber. And the fact people are talking about it makes me even sadder.
I swear, I'll vote (hell join, petition, campaign and through my hat in) NDP just for this if all you don't wise up and see this for what it is.
EDIT: And I really don't wanna do that. I was going to vote CPC. But politics is more about the people than the candidates. And if this is the way our elections are headed, I will vote against those campaigning dirty to try and dissuade it.
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Again if this was a smear campaign it was ill conceived because it comes too late for full effect. Most Canadians wont have heard about it before election day and for the ones that do it will be pretty easy to ignore it because the details won't be clear. Also, there is no evidence that any party was behind this story.
Also even if you support a woman's right to sell their body and a husband's right to get some on the side what Layton was doing was over the line. How could he be sure that this women had any choice in having sex with him? He couldn't have.