Oh good grief. Wrong.
Canada is a different culture and people. VERY different. The Conservatives weren’t beaten, they were wiped and it wasn’t because they weren’t “more Conservative”. You don’t vote full on Liberal because your side isn’t “conservative enough”.
This is what Canadians wanted (to their ultimate detriment). But trying to glean lessons from something that is apples and oranges is a recipe for disaster.
One must never, ever, ever, ever even think of compromising with the Left. To them a compromise is THEY WIN. The Left never compromises, therefore the Right must never compromise.
The Left’s creed IS “OUR WAY, OR THE HIGHWAY”.
Never EVEN think “reaching across the aisle” will gain anything. To do so will only gain more grief.
Sometimes I think ONLY parents of grown children, the people that have been through it all should be able to vote, as they know how to deal with Democrats.
The GOP pledged they were going to enact voter ID laws, electoral votes awarded by congressional district (same as Maine and Nebraska) and no more funding of Democrat campaigns by forced union dues from teachers.
Fast forward and the GOP tried the same play nice strategy. The voter ID law was passed but negated by a single judge. The electoral vote law was introduced but never got out of committee because the state GOP chair thought it would diminish his national influence. And the forced union dues, after seeing the hissy fit which unfolded in Wisconsin, was quietly put on the shelf.
During the very day of the 2014 primary, a judge decided Pennsylvania had to recognize gay marriage and Corbett meekly announced he would comply. Toomey finally say the light and withdrew his co-sponsorship of a "moderate" gun control bill with Joe Manchin of West Virginia and the furthest left candidate won the Democrat Primary.
Corbett went on to defeat in November by almost exactly the same margin by which he won in 2010, the only Republican governorship to change party control in the exact same year when far more liberal Maryland elected a Republican governor, the GOP took control of the U.S. Senate and increased their majority in the house.
There ought to be a lesson here as well for the GOPe.
There was more to it. The Conservatives spent a year or more demonizing Justin Trudeau as a lightweight, then said at the end of their commercials that it might only be temporary and he might be experienced enough some day. Never once that I can remember did they say he was WRONG, and never until a very lame ad near campaign’s end did they actually give a reason to vote FOR them.
An embarrassingly stupid campaign in which they undoubtedly made some very stupid consultants wealthy.
Morons.
cheers from Calgary,
Jim
The Ryan/obummer budget strikes again:-)