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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The reality is that they wouldn't govern with that kind of appeal anyway because the socially regressive contingent would abandon the party and you'd be back to the 90s with 2 separate, viable 'conservative' parties.
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The social regressives fleeing isn't a problem from a vote perspective, but I suspect it is a big problem from a money perspective. I think this fact gets missed a lot - it's a nasty negative feedback loop of needing money to run ads to appeal to your base so they keep giving you money to run more ads...in this case it is totally counter-productive because most of the ads they run do themselves more harm than good.
I think the better calculus would have been to run super lean campaign without any pandering to the regressive base from Scheer. Let local candidate say what they will, and let Scheer try to walk the tightrope (I know this wouldn't work well) by focusing on the Liberal tribalism and over-centralized control of the Trudeau government. Hammer time and again about reforming investigation transparency, and a return to 'free' votes in the house, etc.
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Originally Posted by peter12
You know what? I will be the first to say it. Everyone needs to drop the SNC Lavalin thing now. The damage has been done. Trudeau's effectively lost his celebrity status over it - and the many other terrible things this year. Let parliamentary committees sort it out, if they wish.
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Disagree, except for the part about parliamentary committees - but they won't bother unless they think the electorate cares. Now is the time to amp up the discussion on this.