Posted on 01/10/2006 8:45:21 PM PST by UpHereEh
Here's what we have to put up with in Canada during an election campaign from the anti-American Liberals.
I expect that's true. I guess it's just part of living in democracies.
I hope your elections go well.
What did you say to that broad?
Thanks for the well wishes, it's looking like a Conservative minority will be the outcome but there's a looming income trust scandal that the American SEC is investigating as well as numerous other RCMP investigations that are dogging the liberals. A minority is just not good enough because against the 3 other far-left parties it will be next to impossible to pass any legislation in the HOC. The polls are starting to show a double-digit lead for us across the country but the French BQ party continues to rob us of the majority that the rest of the country wants us to have.
The reason the ads were produced and run anyway is they are desperately trying to hang onto their uber-leftwing strongholds in the urban areas, especially Vancouver and Toronto. In other words, they think that at this point their best-case scenario is a 1984-style meltdown when Brian Mulroney reduced them to 40 seats.
What they're afraid of is the Tories break through in Atlantic Canada and swallow up most of the federalist vote in Quebec, win practically everything everywhere else save a few seats for the NDP, and leave the Liberals in the same shape the Conservatives were in after 1993 when they went from 169 seats - to 2! The Liberals will probably not go that low but these ads aren't so much a hail-mary pass as a last-ditch defense.
Nothing personal taken at all, actually the Conservatives have run a fantastic campaign this time. Quebec and Ontario continue to dominate the elections similar to New York and California in the US. These liberals lie, cheat and steal taxpayer monies in the millions (possibly billions) but they still manage to convince voters that our Conservative leader has a hidden agenda and will ruin the country.
The polls aren't moving much in Atlantic Canada but the good news is that they've taken a drastic lead in BC, and Quebec and Ontario are showing signs of Conservative support out of the blue. I think these new investigations have convinced people that it's time to end the corruption.
That's good to hear, and thanks for the well-done post. Still, as a marketer myself, it's distressingly amazing the conservatives apparently aren't able to frame the debate in the media. I know it's easier to complain than to explain, but conservatives need to PUNCH their message, instead of simply react to Liberal potshots.
That goes for us down here, too. In spades.
We try to get our message out but the liberal Canadian media ignores it as usual. Here are some quotes from the leader of the Canadian Conservative Leader Stephen Harper on the war in Iraq:
"We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.'' (Canadian Press Newswire, April 11, 2003)
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental. It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.
I think, frankly, that everybody knew the post-war situation was probably going to be more difficult than the war itself. Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took. (Macleans, August, 25, 2003)
The world is now unipolar and contains only one superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives. (Canadian Alliance Defence Policy Paper: The New North Strong and Free, May 5, 2003)
This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion
In my judgment Canada will eventually join with the allied coalition if war on Iraq comes to pass. The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with its allies, or its inability to contribute. In the end it will join out of the necessity created by a pattern of uncertainty and indecision. It will not join as a leader but unnoticed at the back of the parade. (Hansard, January 29, 2003)
While there are Canadians who oppose the invasion, Harper said, they are a minority, as are those who are anti-American. It certainly exists. But in fairness, there's an anti-American sentiment among the American left in the United States itself. We have some of that here. But that's a minority sentiment.' only in Quebec, with its pacifist tradition, are most people opposed to the war, Harper said. Outside of Quebec, I believe very strongly the silent majority of Canadians is strongly supportive. (Halifax Daily News, April 4, 2003)
"we support the war effort and believe we should be supporting our troops and our allies and be there with them doing everything necessary to win" (Montreal Gazette, April 2, 2003)
Every failing government in the world up for reelection will blame America. Anti-American sentiment begins and ends with simple envy and so every foreign politician will score points with his constituency if he bashes America. Particularly when America is in an aggressive posture.
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But it is. Kerry himself got 48% of the vote here. It's easier in Canada and Europe where the perception is that if they just keep feeding the Islamofacist crocodile, it will eat Americans first.
I'm glad the Conservatives have promoted their message, but still stupified it must be promoted so strenuously. I mean, Canada basically exists as a nation because the U.S. ensures its security.
Me, I love Canada and have journeyed there often. So have lots of Americans. If attack ads like the ones you reference continue, I see no reason why anyone who has an ounce of pride in the U.S. would want to set foot in what could easily be "reverse-marketed" as a cloudy, dingy, drunken, ill-educated, God-forsaken spot on the map.
There are, after all, limits to patience.
I fear you are correct. Unfortunately.
Every national news network, radio station, and newspaper in Canada are leading with the liberal attack ads and how over-the-top and offensive they are. One had to be pulled before it even aired and I'm sure there are more to follow. We aren't all a bunch of idiots up here you know, we can sort through liberal spin and propaganda and call it for what it is.
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The Canadian blogs are leading the way exposing the endless scandals and keeping attention on them. Be sure to check them out.
Read the "comments" sections- the replies are often witty & illuminating, and some have links or URL's to more information.
Not to mention the Yeoman's work done by our Canadian sister site, Free Dominion:
A big chunk of the anti-Americanism comes from the fear that Canadians have of a private health-care system. Like I said before, the liberals prey on the nanny-staters who do nothing but collect EI and welfare checks.
Like the northeast liberals, many Canadians are "cosmopolitans" who identify more closely with the Europeans and the British socialists than with most Americans. Then of course there is the fact that "Canadian Patriotism" is in short supply in that country.
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