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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
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 100% correct but IMO this went too far. That whole San Franciso documentary thing the NDP just did is one of the most manipulative and despicable things I have ever seen.
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I think the NDP tactics are a bit jarring as they come across as something they'd normally do as opposition to try and get some traction and steal votes.
not something you'd expect from the governing party. but as others have said, maybe they feel that's all they can do because they can't run on what they've accomplished.
If I were Kenney, I'd keep hammering them on how much debt they've added and push them on when they're expecting to start paying it down.
also push on health care. remind the public that the status quo isn't working and all the NDP have done is add to the wait times. that just throwing money at the healthcare problem doesn't fix it.