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My eerily prescient call

by Andrew Coyne on Monday, October 13, 2008 1:01pm - 0 Comments

Fascists 133

Crooks Notaleaders 88

Commies 34

Traitors 51

Tree-huggers 0

Loners 2

Tags: Election Watch

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Ti-Guy

Al W:

At least I don’t defend liars, lie for them and make up excuses for their lies, like Conservative rank-and-file supporters do all the time, day in and day out.

The big reason I can’t vote Conservative is because of Conservative supporters themselves.
Andrew

Al, just as it amazes people that others vote Conservative despite the shenanigans they have and will continue to get up to.

Give Harper another mandate, I’m sure we’ll have plenty more scandal in the next 18-30 months.
Ti-Guy

A big, under-reported Conservative scandal involves the one billion Harper let the Americans keep as a result of the softwood sell-out. Now that’s a slush fund…who knows what that’s been able to finance.
Al W

Ti-Guy…Andrew

The Liberals have been throwing mud for years trying to make something stick and create a scandal to no avail.

The only real scandals are by the Liberals…ADSCAM,HRDC,Shawinigate,BDC,Gun Registry,etc etc.! Combined these have cost the taxpayers billions of dollars!

As for the softwood deal all the lumber companys in Canada praised the deal…but the lawyers hated it! (Liberal Lawyers)
kanly

CTV airs lies 6:00 news ottawa time on the Cadman affair!! we all know the specialist indicated the tape was taped over in some parts but not the part the Prime minister Stephen Harper was in conversation with Mr. Cadman(diseased) and to hear one of the CTV reporters by phone reporting a seconds report by Liberals?? saying exactly the same thing that the facts are ” part of the rape was taped over but the section where there was a conversation between Stephen Harper and Cadman very clear and it was not tampered with!! that was very clear from both the Liberal and the conservative experts!!

MY QUESTION IS WHY IS THE CTV NEWS MEDIA TRYING TO CONFUSION THE CADMAN AFFAIR BY REPORTING LIES TODAY?? SURPRISE!! DOES IT MEAN THEY ARE PRO CONSERVATIVES INSTEAD OF REPORTING THE TRUTH TO THE CANADIANS???

this is very confusing when a media station takes a stand to report falsehood….
Al W

kanly:

What CTV is reporting is that the tape WAS tampered with…surprise surprise…the Liberals would not have anything to do with that would they? I am waiting for Dion to take back all his childish yelling and screaming about this. Looks like they will end up owing Harper $3.5 Mil for having their mouths work faster than their brains.

For your viewing pleasure the new Nanos Poll just came out and the Conservatives are in majority territory:

Conserv 37%

Libs 26%

NDP 20%

Bloq 8%

Green 7%
Jim

Al: I think you’ll find that you are looking at only one day of a 3 day tracking poll that is not supposed to be looked at that way.

Especially when the other two days are 32.7%.
quebecois separatiste

Had the Liberals elected Ignatieff 2 years ago… they would be winning now.

but:

Bush-lite: 131

Vendus: 80

Good Anglos: 40

Liberator: 55

May: 1 (I wish)

Arthur: 1 (I regret)
http://cork2toronto.blogspot.com Mark Dowling

“The only unambiguous winners are the Greens, having doubled their vote — who will get no seats.”

Bringing Blair Wilson on board means they will actually lose 100% of their seats and open themselves to “Greens Wiped Out” headlines…
Doug Smith

Too bad the real losers are all Canadians and the environment. In some ways Dion has shown himself to be the strongest leader – he put forward a plan that knowingly would have dubious political support, but he did so because he knew it was the right thing to do. And don’t kid yourselves, all these guys know the same thing. They all hear the same reports from the same scientific community and advisers. All the parties realize that they need to tax emissions and that these costs will ultimately be born by the general population. Some of the parties decided that now was the time that Canada had to act. Some (one?) of the parties decided to slough it off for a few years with soft targets. I can’t believe how this issue was pushed to the sidelines and marginalized by propaganda. In 4 years it will be THE issue, in Canada and elsewhere, and we’ll realize how dumb we were to do (almost) nothing about it now.
Expat Living Abroad

To Doug:
“I can’t believe how this issue was pushed to the sidelines and marginalized by propaganda.”

…And I can’t believe how much Canada has changed since I left 2 years ago!

How is it that people who I originally thought fairly bright (i.e., Canadian public) can actually buy into this environmentalist alarmism propaganda and lies.
Expat Living Abroad

As the Greens are really the new Communist Party, shouldn’t “tree hugger” really be “watermelon”?

Green on the outside but RED to the core.
http://ADMS.ca cms

Al W:

The poll you quoted is the decided voters.

There’s still 16% undecided, according to the same CPAC-Nanos release. Please don’t confuse us.
Robin Muir

I’m still looking for the blog.
Matthew Fletcher

Ti-Guy:
“The big reason I can’t vote Conservative is because of Conservative supporters themselves.”

That’s great. You don’t hate the party, or the policies, or the ideology, you hate… the actual people.

You have now surpassed ‘Wayne’, ‘jwl’, and ‘boudica.’ It is between you and ‘kody’ for the “most-insulting-and-least-intersting-partisan commenter-award” here at Macleans.ca. Congratulations on reaching the finals.
oompus boompus

Dear Canadians,

Best of luck at the polls today. Unfortunately we have not been invited to participate and therefore we will be unable to join you. We hope you will be satisfied with the substitutes you have chosen: Central Planning, Coercion, Rent Seeking, Moral Hazard, Omnipotent Bureaucracy, Perverse Incentives and Economic Sophistry.

Signed,

Common Sense
Self Sufficiency
Private Property
Entrepreneurialism
Thriftiness
Sound Currency
Responsibility
Freedom
Dave

Doug
“Too bad the real losers are all Canadians and the environment…In 4 years it will be THE issue, in Canada and elsewhere, and we’ll realize how dumb we were to do (almost) nothing about it now.”

Or, in 4 years it will be shown to be one of the silliest fads ever to become a major “issue”. My money’s on fad.
Mike T.

Of harper had handled the in and out scandal like Martin handled the sponsorship scandal, he’d be praiseworthy indeed.

Obviously Martin had self-serving reasons for the Gomery inquiry – he knew he hadn’t personally done anything, and that he might be able to make the “old liberals” look bad. but at least he did the right thing. And Harper’s unwillingness to acknowledge that pretty much ended the hope that we’d see a better class of politics where parties could take responsibility for their actions. Now it’s harper’s turn, and he knows that investigations and coming clean aren’t the way to go – what you do is make ridiculous accusations about elections Canada.
Gustav

EPIC FAIL.

What a loser. Now we are stuck with this creep well beyond his best before date. Meanwhile the next majority Prime Minister Rae / Ignatieff (take your pick) folds his arms and smiles.

What a dork.
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Peter

From yesterday:

“1. Less votes = less money. The govenment is not changing this election, so turnout will probably be 60%, for a 7% revenue drop. They will likely receive around 25% of the popular vote, a further 17% drop in vote count, the combined result being a roughly a 25% reduction in pulic subsidy.”

AC, I don’t know if your prognostication qualifies as eery, but my numbers do.

If my step 2 happens, we are in interesting times. Of course, that could only happen if we have a PM who plays the long game, and thinks getting rid of the LPC is a good thing…………………
hosertohoosier

“Now it’s harper’s turn, and he knows that investigations and coming clean aren’t the way to go – what you do is make ridiculous accusations about elections Canada.”

The Chretien approach to scandals works. It gave us three straight majority governments that got things done. If I were Harper I would take some golf balls my inquiry.