Ho-hum, we have a campaign here folks! A GST cut, SSM, and Healthcare talk? That sounds to me like a good policy debate...
Harper's first and foremost out of the gates, getting the positive press coverage and stealing the agenda by making a pledge to: a) cut the GST, b) hold a free vote on SSM, c) Makee the nowee privatee healthcaree thingee. And the Supreme Leader Paul Martin seems like a drunken monkey running the streets in panick at the whole affair.
Though this could have easily been the apegoat 2004 campaign. What we now know however, is that the Liberals were merely playing dead at the beginning of the last campaign only to unleash a hailstorm of ads in the final weeks. Also the media turned against Harper. After being so gushingly light on the Tories to make Joe Blow and Suzy Lue Canuck think that the election was a horse race so that they would actually watch the thing, the Media turned when they saw the prospect of something they fear the most: a Conservative government...
This should be a warning to all those heavy dancers out there, already celebrating a Tory victory: it aint over yet. Wait 'till Jan two. I'm expecting the barrage to start then.
The Liberal dog is no where near dead yet.
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