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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Your memory is selective. Around half-way through the campaign, neither party had run any attack ads. On December 30, 2005, the Conservatives fired a pre-emptive salvo with an ad ("They'll go neg") accusing the Liberals of having to resort to negative attack ads before the Liberals had, in fact, done so.
It's ridiculous that some of you are holding up the CPC to be paragons of positive campaigning using only their own platform and vision for the country when the very basis of their electioneering in 2004 and 2006 was to attack the Liberals on accountability and scandals. I'm not saying it wasn't without some merit, but it was a far cry from sunshine and flowers coming from the CPC camp in the last few elections. I understand that people support their party, but let's try to keep some perspective.
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I also remember as the Liberal's got more desparate they came up with the positive ads about the Conservatives putting troops on the street in Canadian cities, ads comparing Harper to Mike Harris, An ad accusing Harper of working with the seperatists to not only bring the government down but destroy Canada, discussions about Harper's secret agenda, Ads stating that Harper would run a deficit if elected or he'd increase taxation. The Liberal campaign was nothing but negative attack plans because the Liberal's failed to create any kind of platform in the last election.
The Conservatives did go after the Liberal's on the results and thier corruption scandals but at least the Conservative ads were based in reality, whereas the Liberal ads were straight fear mongering with nothing to back them up.