What a week to celebrate the one year anniversary of the release of Mike Ignatieff's last book True Patriot Love; that we should find out a bitter partisan tax dollar receiving pollster has encouraged the Liberal Party to engage in a culture war and pit Canadians against Canadians in divisive debates. A strategy that has clearly been followed by Team Ignatieff who have deliberately chosen polarizing issues to drive a wedge between families. Is that what you mean by true patriot love Mike?
If dividing the country is your idea of patriot love, I would like to hasten your return to Boston.
If you have yet to cast a vote in my poll to guess the title of Ignatieff's next book, you have a few days to make up your mind. Thus far the leaderboard reads:
The Backfire of My Vanity (28%)
Bob is that a knife in my back, or are you just happy to see me? (23%)
True Patriot Culture War (15%)
Dances With Dippers (13%)
Ian Davey: The Dead Horse I Rode In On (7%)
What About Bob? (5%)
Crying With Wolves (5%)
Conservatives are not xenophobic but Liberals are apparently isolationists and oooohh soooo 1990's!
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We are allegedly the party of racists, but we have more minorities in caucus than any other party.
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Shortly after Donolo took over, one of Iggy's lines was something like: "we've got to get back the 800,000 voters who voted Liberal in 2000, but not 2008". These ex-Lib voters need to be stirred into action, motivated to get off their duffs, and to the polling booth.
ReplyDeleteHow to do that ? Generate a strong emotional response. Pick one or more from anger, fear, hatred, hope, whatever. In the early days, Iggy was going to be the hopey-changey guy of the North. But that obviously failed. So now Donolo falls back on generating the kind of anger and hatred that Trudeau brought out in almost all of the West.
But like any political strategy, if it's badly played, it will backfire. And with this kerfuffle over Graves' crudely worded advice, I'll bet many progressive voters will recoil at the idea that Liberal backroomers are toying with their emotions.
The Liberals would be stupid to follow this strategy. Federal-Provincial relations have never been more harmonious and I highly doubt Canadians want to turn back the clock. Canada has changed much since the 90's.
ReplyDeleteI think Graves has it backwards, it is the Toronto liberals who fear the strangers, aka Western Canadians. Sorry, but we are not going away, to know us is to love us, or at least our money.
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