Sounds to me, like someone who ask you to go take a shower and then, turn on the steam pipes and chokes you to death.

Don’t trust this dude at all !

When you look at the candidates, Harper stands out as the best to represent Canada worlwide. But is he really honest?

See ya Dude.

And can someone give me the phone number of Julie Couillard, i’m single and i need a story of myself in the next Mclean magazine.

thanks dudes and dudettes !

The Shaker

In case you don’t get it often enough, you’re fantastic.

When Harper releases his leadership supporters’ list, then maybe Canadians will care who donated $200 to Dion’s campaign.

How the hell am I supposed to watch two debates AND read macleans.ca at the same time? I need a bigger budget. Prime Minister!

You should just go with the UnstableScribble, or WhateverTF it’s called.

If it isn’t right, then complain, but the point is, just go with it.

- JV

LOL. What spin? I cited a sampling from TVA, you know the voters. They said Dion won, not me. Just the facts.

You’re a joke.

Dude..Dot’s calling you out!

Hate to break it to you Toronto-area bloggers but the Liberals have been dead in the water in Quebec since day 1 so even if Dion was brilliant in this debate, and he wasn’t, it wouldn’t matter a whit. Nobody listens to him in Quebec, he’s been a dead man walking there for some time.

Some of the media in his scrum were telling him he didn’t interact in the debate that much but most listeners have a low tolerance for too much Dion, so him keeping his mouth shut for most of the debate was actually a good tactic. I mean that sincerely.

Don’t start with me, Ranter.

I was being a Lib-bot.

I don’t know why I would expect Dion to collapse, but then, I’ve been paying attention.

Hope this holds up until the 14th, don’t you?

- JV

Ah, what do the VOTERS know :)

Show me and others that you have some “clothes” and that you’re a person who stands behind what you constantly repeat ad nauseum.

Don’t do the cowardly lion thing.

Yes. Please do.

“I backed up and watched the whole segment twice. Stephen Harper seemed to be the only person who didn’t use the say-nice game to say something nasty. And everyone says the blue sweater thing was a cynical ploy.”

All Harper did was list his own legislative accomplishments. To paraphrase, “Remember, we brought in this fantastic piece of legislation, and you supported it? That was great, Jack.”

You watched how many times and still missed that?

At least May looked like she was sincerely *trying* to say something nice. It wasn’t an easy task.

If I had been in her seat, I would have said something like, “Mr. Harper is the most skillful media manipulator this country has ever seen. He has done everything in his power to bar the press from covering his government for almost three years, and yet somehow he can still get cameras to show up and photograph him shoulder-patting his daughter.”

Dot?

Tell you what. If CPC’s numbers go up tomorrow (Nanos three day poll), I will stop posting on the Maclean’s site – if you will stop posting if the numbers go down.

Deal?

It makes no difference. An anglo is an anglo whether they speak fluently or not. Quebecers can tell.

Duceppe wins.

Actually no.

It all depends on how poorly the CPC polled on Sunday.

That’s my whole point.

If Sunday was particularly bad (as I contend is the case due to undersampling) then they may need no increase today at all.

Sunday’s low numbers are dropped off, and

voila.

Maybe you should put a few more “plugs” into that excel spreadsheet,

play around with it for awhile,

you’ll figure it out.

No chance.

they’re almost always wrong.

Cons up by three from today (maybe two, but no less).

Cheers.

“Foolishly, May called Harper a “liar,” a “joke,” and a fraud artist over Kyoto; whether you think those epithets are accurate or not, May looked less like a leader, Harper more – because he didn’t erupt.”

One odd thing about the debate is that we found out next to nothing about the parties’ platforms which I think is unfortunate. The exception was the Conservative platform which Harper seemed to have more time to outline in response to the numrerous questions he got.

May came across, to the extent that she came across at all, as a bit of a fanatic. She doesn’t come across as the leader of a party. She still comports herself like the head of an NGO. Too bad for the Greens. She also showed her fanaticism and/or lack of class in her response to the question of saying something nice about the leader next to her, which was Harper. Her answer came across as mean-spirited and petty. She was worse in the press conference after the debate. It just makes her look like a fanatic and not a party leader.