Best part about that is that if you ignore the obviously slanted, standard-fare summaries of opponent's positions on the placard, the message is obviously correct: the leader isn't what's important; it's the platform.
Obviously, though, that cuts both ways, and the NDP and Liberals are relying just as heavily on "F Harper" as the CPC are on "Just Not Ready", if not more so.
The one with Harper constantly standing up and buttoning his jacket in question period over and over again in multiple frames is also a really solid political ad, even though it really has no content.
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I think that is really meant to steal away from the NDP, despite any hair jabs back at Harper.
No one is afraid that Harper might be too much like Muclair, but lean on the NDP base by showing them their leader is showing characteristics of Harper......
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It's fascinating to watch the Cons empty their coffers on largely cynical advertising, with the NDP on full attack too, while the Liberals have generally finished their campaign with positive advertisements. I think it's the right play, and exactly what the electorate wants to see just before the election on Monday: someone they actually might like, rather than people telling them who to hate.
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As a Canadian, I feel so much shame looking at that photo.
Right? Harper -- at least according to Conservative Party talking points -- is supposed to be the experienced leader with good judgement. What the hell was he thinking appearing with Rob Ford? Is that good judgement?
It's fascinating to watch the Cons empty their coffers on largely cynical advertising, with the NDP on full attack too, while the Liberals have generally finished their campaign with positive advertisements. I think it's the right play, and exactly what the electorate wants to see just before the election on Monday: someone they actually might like, rather than people telling them who to hate.
The NDP have stuck to their mission of getting rid of Harper, but they've essentially been campaigning for the Liberals for a few weeks now. They're doing the dirty work of putting Canadians off Harper with non-stop attacks, but with only the Liberals having a positive message the NDP are not the ones picking up the votes of Canadians put off by Harper. It's a perfect situation for the Liberals.
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To me Trudeau is campaigning and acting like a man that knows he's going to be Prime Minister in a few days, Harper is campaigning and acting like a man who knows he's not going to be Prime Minister anymore.
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The funny thing to me about Harper trying to pull the Rob Ford GTA vote is that I imagine many of those voters are exactly the type of voters who would rather spend election day watching the Jays. Those who have been really motivated for change are more likely to have voted early, and have voted liberal in key ridings, while those who are part of the Rob Ford everyman demographic seem just that much more likely to spend these next days reading the sports pages and getting hyped for the game rather than casting a ballot.
I laugh at the notion that Harper has further embarrassed the party by connection to the Fords in a last ditch effort to win some key ridings where he's focused on getting votes from the less politically engaged only to potentially be defeated by a baseball team whose playoff games are more compelling to that group of voters than the conservative message. A stumbling, bumbling hail mary play equivalent to Ford himself trying to throw a real football.
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Any Conservative supporters on CP want to defend Harper for doing this? Or is it, as I suspect, absolutely indefensible?
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If this is how a desperate Stephen Harper goes out, it will be an exit for the ages. It will never be said he didn’t pull out all the stops. It will be acknowledged he mashed the keyboard just as hard as he could, and never minded the bollocks.
He borrowed the niqab as a wedge issue from Quebec; he issued dire warnings of brothels competing with pot-dispensing convenience stores on every street corner; and then on Saturday night in west-end Toronto, he flashed a final emphatic middle finger to his critics and to principled conservatives everywhere, in the form of a rally — well and enthusiastically attended — hosted by catastrophe mayor Rob Ford and his somewhat more respectable brother Doug.
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And then, there was Saturday night — a brand new low for a conservative party that has abandoned so very many of its conservative principles. Drugs or no drugs, the Fords’ politics is a flailing, nihilist mashup of spite, fantasy and delusion masquerading as “Respect for Taxpayers.” The Tories wear that now. If they lose on Monday, they will have utterly debased themselves doing so. And if they don’t lose — if embracing the Fords motivates the GTA voters they so desperately need, or if they conclude that it did — then one can only wonder what further debasements might await them, and us, down the line. They’ve come a long way, baby.
"Respect for Taxpayers" is an insulting notion when it is the catch phrase for a rally being hosted by a criminal that used his public office and control over police budget to act with impunity.
How can any decent conservative reconcile Harper aligning himself with the Fords?
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It seems pertinent at this point to rehash Rob Ford’s behaviour in office, as variously described in sworn affidavits and accounts from those who knew and encountered and worked with him, and in some cases freely admitted by the man himself: smoking crack with gangsters, who videotaped it, then offering $5,000 and a car to get it back; having his drug-dealer pal Sandro Lisi exchange 1.5 kilograms of marijuana for his cell phone, which had been stolen by gangsters; careering around City Hall drunk in the dead of night; driving drunk, including after having downed a mickey of vodka in two minutes, whereupon a staffer in the vehicle begged to be let out; being tailed around town by a police airplane; offering staff positions to his drug buddies; assaulting staff members; calling Justin Trudeau a “fag”; racially abusing a taxi driver; prostitutes, maybe; and just generally lying about absolutely everything, absolutely all the time.
We knew all that before excerpts from Ford’s former chief of staff Mark Towhey’s new book hit the news, conveniently enough this week, in Maclean’s and Politico. We can now add a terrifying alleged domestic disturbance, including a death threat from Ford to his wife, which Towhey tried with some apparent success to defuse over the phone.
The man was a menace to society, a total degenerate. Jason Kenney called on him to resign. “We are never going to be fans of anyone who sets a poor example by their personal behaviour in any elected position. We’ve made that clear with regard to Justin Trudeau’s comments over the summer (about smoking pot),” Immigration Minister Chris Alexander told CBC News back in 2013.
I guess Rob Ford's behaviour is now forgivable, but Justin Trudeau admitting to having smoked pot is completely unforgivable.
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