Losers: Current politicos that used to blog. Most of them aren't all that old and the technology they use hasn't been in the political arena all that long. So in their defense, I guess you could say, they don't quite understand, yet, how damaging some of this blogging stuff can be to their future careers as politicians. It's funny, b/c a lot of bloggers (when they get involved heavily in a campaign or even run) think that by shutting down their blog, or setting it to "invited readers only mode”, they can erase anything they ever said - good or bad. Not the case, younger staffers at media and political organizations are blog friendly too, and they can dig up this stuff, via google cache, and pass it along to their superiors in minutes. I think it's safe to say that TJ "THE BLOGGER GENERAL" Burke is proof of that.
Policy Loser: The conservative party's decision to cut funding to the arts. I'll have more on this later, but for now, all I can say is if Gordon Pinset drags himself out of bed to comment on this, you'd better start getting worried.
Winner: Tory credibility when it comes to keeping campaign commitments. A Nanos Research-Sun Media poll released earlier this morning showed that 30.4 per cent of Canadians surveyed think the conservatives will keep their promises - more than double the 14.5 per cent who believe the Libs will deliver and 14.1 per cent who put their trust in the New Democrats. With just twenty days left in this campaign for the opposition, all I can say to them is "Houston, we definitely have a problem!"
Loser: I'm a little late on this, but Jack Layton for his bonehead musings about being open to a post-election political coalition with the Liberals. I'm sure he thought it would nullify the argument that a vote for the NDP is a vote for the conservatives, but in reality, all it truly accomplished was to motivate the Tory base to get out and vote in droves on the 14th of October. Nice work Layte!
Local losers: Nova Scotia Tories for the alleged accounting irregularities by former Halifax Conservative candidate Rosamond Luke, which resulted in her losing her job and the organization where she was executive director shutting down. Even if the irregularities are proven not to be linked to her, the specter of all this smack dab in the middle of a general election is not good. I even see Peter Mackay was being dragged into this. Not good.
Video ad loser: I don't find myself too often being in sync with Norman Spector and his opinions, but in the case of the anonymous producers of the YouTube video below (who make fun of conservatives for their cuts to culture) , I have to agree, it borders on bigotry. Anyway, here's the video, you be the judge (are they deserved of loser status?):
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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48 per cent of Canadians donate money to religious organiztions, 2 per cent donate to the arts. Arts funding is a downtwon Toronto/Montreal issue that isn't going to have a big effect on voting.
I think after the debates you're going to see a lot of voters running in a different direction from the Liberals, maybe even in safe ridings in Nova Scotia.
Like in '93, it didn't matter how good (or likable) you were as a Tory, you were most likely going down.
Which is why Casey has an advantage running under no party banner. No link to Dion.
As someone who grew up in a small town and has lived in Toronto and Ottawa, I can't say I disagree nuna d. above, especially when I see my small town in NB benefiting for the first time, culturally, under Harper.
Here's my comment about it over here. I guess you could say I'm a bit torn as to how this will affect arts and culture in the long run. That is all!
bill: 1993? It sounds like you're talking about a near death experience for the Libs. I see you're not the only one.
The 'artists' are getting bent out of shape over a paltry 1.5% cut to their budget. $45 million. Including a $5 million free vacation fund that was cut. Boohoo.
$45 million represents about a buck fifty per Canadian. Let's assume Harper is correct, and that 90% of Canadians don't care about cutting free vacations from the budget.
That still leaves 3 million Canadians who are (presumably) outrages about Harper's neanderthal cuts. $15 dollars per person who cares.
If the 'artists' want to be 'landlords', then all they have to do is get the 10% of Canadians who are outraged to send them 20 bucks each. No receipt, no nothing...just a gift. This would give the landlords $60 million to spend as they like.
Why don't they just do this?? Everybody would be happy.
It won't happen, and we've seen the reason already---the same reason nobody is helping Dion pay off his 600,000 debt.
Lefties and 'artists' want other people to pick up the tab. Paying for their own hobbies is just so....so....'gauche'....
Does this mean they will FINALLY take "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" off the air. Thank God!!!!
Dipper/Grit coalition??? The thought of "Prime Minister" Jack Layton and "Deputy Prime Minister" Stephane Dion gives me nightmares. Let's hope Stephen Harper gets his majority and Canadians can focus on something other than an election over the next four years.
Jack Layton PM!! Yikes!!
Prime Minister Stephen Harper with a majority gives me recurring night terrors!
So the media would make you think. Fortunately, I don't need them to make up my mind.
With guys like Lee Richardson saying things like "immigrants are prone to commit crimes", a Harper majority is looking scarier by the minute.
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