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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I’m all for raising the level of political discourse, but I’m sorry in advance, I have to call you out Dion. This is partisan complaining.
As iggy pointed out, you’ve been trotting out the “fear and smear” stuff with delight against the NDP for years (literally!). Anti-Notley fear mongering, bringing up the past, it’s literally been your bread and butter as a poster regarding Alberta politics.
The UCP has used “fear and smear” already, the PC party had a clinic with it in the last Federal election. No mention from you, which is fine, but poses the question as to why you would stay silent unless it’s the NDP. Not only that, but accusing the NDP of resorting to US style politics doesn’t make a lot of sense either. It’s politics. It’s been around in Canada for as long as I can remember. Let’s not pretend it’s out of the norm or something a party “resorts” to. It’s happens in every election.
I get it, Kenney is your guy and you’re UCP/FP or bust. But pretending you care about fear and smear in general or trying to paint the NDP as some unique offender just doesn’t seem that believable when you’re been a big fan of it for so long before the NDP stepped up.
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Curious what's been the fear and smear used against the NDP? It's not like there aren't numerous videos and pictures of Notley protesting pipelines out there and they aren't that old. We all know the deep down makeup of her and many in her party is anti-O&G. It's simply stating the obvious when bringing that forth and certainly no smear or even fear. I don't recall any smear campaigns regarding her character and how she kills babies and is evil like the NDP are currently resorting to. I kind of have to agree with Dion in that resorting to this kind of stuff generally shows a lack of confidence in your platform and current resume. "Vote for us because they are evil" is about as lame as it gets IMO.
When on a job interview they ask you the typical question on why you are the best person for the job do you say; "
I'm the best person because the other candidates are scary and evil?" You aren't going to get employment anywhere with that as your selling point so I don't understand how people find this an acceptable reason to vote for a party if this is all they got.
Sure you can say every party resorts to ads placing the opposition in a non-flattering light but there's a difference between saying "he's not ready" which just happened to be correct in the case of Justin but IMO this went too far. That whole San Franciso documentary thing using people that have lived though AIDS for their political gain is one of the most manipulative and despicable things I have ever seen.