Loser: The Liberal campaign plane, or as it's known around Bourque circles, "Air Dud." Let's just say that enough has already been made about the so-called grumblings amongst Liberal party insiders regarding the poor strategy of the Dion campaign that they didn't need last nights malfunction [generator gaffe] to add fuel to the fire. The Boeing 737 Air Inuit has now become the symbol of the Liberal campaign as they've both become the butt-of-jokes.
Winners: NDP strategists for running a disciplined campaign thus far and not getting knocked off message. Since the Ryan Sparrow gaffe last week, Mr. Layton has been offering Canadians a steady, incremental dose of left-wing policies. Policies that seem to be playing well in parts of Ontario where the manufacturing sector has been hit hard recently. Not to mention, policies that are propelling them in the polls as they're now only trailing the grits by 4 percentage points nationally according to a recent Ekos Research poll.
Local Loser: Nova Scotia Liberal Scott Brison for appearing aloof and uninterested in his leaders speech on catastrophic drug coverage in Halifax yesterday. And to add insult to injury, Brison's body language seemed to perk up (and become more positive) when fellow Liberal Bob Rae took over the podium. Not a good way to show confidence in your leader.
Loser: Halton Liberal MP Garth Turner, or as Conservative blogger Stephen Taylor calls him, "Progressive-Conservative-turned-broadcaster-turned-Conservative-turned-Independent-
turned-Green tease-turned-Liberal MP", for not being upfront with CPAC broadcasters. With what appeared to most as a random door knocking stop for Turner, turned out to be anything but. Apparently CPAC were under the impression that they had just filmed footage of an independent minded Halton constituent who was happy with Dion's Green Shift plan. Unfortunately, for Turner, he left out a couple of key variables: 1) the gentlemen being filmed at the door was not some random individual, he was a card carrying Liberal and 2) to add insult to injury, he was the son of longtime Turner assistant, Esther Shaye. So much for CPAC measuring the independent pulse of Canadians at the door. Furthermore, when pressed on the issue by the CBC and CPAC, Turner became very combative (unwilling to give them full disclosure) and pleaded the fifth until it was too uncomfortable to do so anymore. Let's just say that b/c of this, you have probably heard the last of Garth in Halton as an MP.
I have reincarnated this old blog and will be following both the national as well as the local developments in the New Brunswick region leading up to the 2011 federal election.
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Dion ,Layton and May will promise the earth..because they know they will never be elected...Harper will have 3-4 years to make them work..Elections have always had high price tags .. The Liberals were the worse. The knives are out for DION; they have already started planning for their leadership conference...make all the promises you want..
I was in Halifax yesterday and dropped by to see "Bankrupt Bobbie" bail poor old Steph out. Here's a thought, Bob as Steph's finance minister. Can you picture your increased tax bill with Bob controlling the purse strings and Dion's carbon tax on everything going into law. If you have a job, get ready to kiss $1000 each, good-bye.
Ontarians already have under Bobbie boy.
I think there's a good chance the Tories could replace Scott Brison in King-Hants.
I see after Nanos released his daily account of the "leadership index" numbers measuring trustworthiness, competence and vision, many were making the claim that a Bob Rae appearance on Monday didn't help Dion's leadership numbers at all (from the National Post):
"Mr. Dion already trailed Stephen Harper by about 2:1 before Mr. Rae's well-publicized appearance with the Liberal leader in Halifax on Tuesday. Today, following the appearance, Mr. Dion's index score tumbled 16 points to 32, compared to 51 for Jack Layton and 108 for Mr. Harper.
Maybe it's just a coincidence. Maybe voters had other reasons for deciding they liked Mr. Dion significantly less on Tuesday than they did on Monday. Can't be a good sign, though."
"Since the Ryan Sparrow gaffe last week, Mr. Layton has been offering Canadians a steady, incremental dose of left-wing policies. Policies that seem to be playing well in parts of Ontario where the manufacturing sector has been hit hard recently."
Left-wing policies playing well? I'm an Ontarioan and I can tell you, I don't like the idea of my tax dollars being spent on day care for a child that I did not bring into the world. If you bring a child into the world, then you pay for it! Period.
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