The Road To 50: the fun begins
Bob Tarantino notes and details the rather abrupt departure from the relatively fair media coverage the CPC enjoyed before Christmas.
The CP and the Star have also taken to “reporting” Liberal attacks as news, sans context or rebuttal, in this case the matter of whether CPC fiscal policy will result in deficits.
let it bleed
This turn and what I suspect will be a savaging of Harper and the resurection of the Holy Dumpling after the debates, is all pretty predictable. People who live in the Annex run such institutions as the Toronto Star and the CBC precisely so people like Stephen Harper cannot ever hope to get a look in. They will be getting back to the office after the Christmas break and it will dawn on them that while none of their friends are voting for the CPC it the polls suggest people they do not know (and do not wish to know) are actually going to vote for this quasi American…
What would Trudeau do? Or, more to the point, what would Peter Gzowski? So the Canada Geese will be scrambled and the Maude Barlow/Judy Rebick brigade will create some news about abortion rights or free trade or American style X. This will be reported as if it actually is news and the Dumpling will be trotted out to condemn Harper’s lack of commitment to Canada.
And so on.
Now, the only question in this election is whether or not, having failed the IQ test last time round, the folks in 905 will have the wit to see through the Liberals scare tactics and pandering. Personally I rather doubt it. The brief blip in the polls was, I fear, no more than the alarm bell reminding the Liberals and the media that there was in fact a campaign on.
It is now going to get very nasty indeed. On past performance nasty wins and if the current CPC momentum reverses itself, as I am almost certain it will, a desperate Liberal Party, being creamed in Quebec, may very well eke out its majority by taking closely held CPC seats.
The “tough” new NDP with its commitment to “American style” minimum sentences will also be training its guns on the CPC. there are plenty of seats in BC the NDP can win.
At this instant the CPC has a lead in the polls. What it has to remember is that this is the beginning rather than the end of the campaign and slim lead is not good enough.