[Senator Clay Davis]

And yet another reason the attacks weren't smart

Conservative attack ads against Justin Trudeau have turned into a financial boon for the Liberal party.

The party raised $336,000 in the 48 hours following Trudeau’s landslide victory in the Liberal leadership race Sunday.

Officials say that’s more than double the party’s previous top haul for an e-mail fundraising campaign.

“The Conservatives are already back in the gutter,” he said in the Monday evening e-mail blast.

“Now they’re using pictures from a charity fashion show to attack me and undermine what we’ve built ... They’ve seen what we can do and they’re desperately trying to drown us out with the childish, food-fight politics.”

The e-mail also urged people to donate to the Canadian Liver Foundation, the charity for which Trudeau stripped off his jacket, tie and shirt at a fundraising gala in 2011.

The foundation reports it has received almost $10,000 in donations over the past two days – more than twice what it normally receives in unsolicited donations in a month.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle11350277/