If Nothing Else the Count is a Realist
Ignatieff told the meeting, organized by the B.C. Young Liberals, that former Liberal leader Stéphane Dion’s Green Shift platform “killed” the party in last October’s federal election.“Let’s be honest,” he said. “We got killed at the doorstep with the Green Shift.” the tyee
A non-solution to a non-problem….Canadians may be cheap but they are not easy.
January 27th, 2009 at 8:23 am
I doubt he was indicating that the problem is not real or that the solution was a bad one but rather that it was a stupid idea to base an election platform on a program that was difficult to communicate and easy to misrepresent.
January 27th, 2009 at 10:31 am
“The dumbest thing you can do – and no Liberal must ever do it – is run against Alberta, make Alberta the enemy, isolate Alberta.”
Wow. The Count is saying things I’d love to hear coming out of Harper’s mouth.
Hm.
I was planning on sitting out the next election because of utter disgust with all of the parties involved. Now I’m suddenly interested in possibly casting a vote again. And I’m an Albertan.
January 27th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I share KevinG’s concern that the Count is not renouncing the policy (he needs it – or thinks he needs it – to keep the leftist side of the Party happy), but rather hoping that by ignoring it he can avoid frightening away voters.