…and I may be overstepping my bounds because I don’t work for the Conservative Party, but my gut instinct is to say: it’s about time.
Mr. Harper has apparently fired five or six staff, but they are now downplaying the significance—I guess because they’re afraid the media will spin this into a…
“Conservative Party Clearly Falling Apart!”
…story—with a subheading of
“Spectacularly!”
…and with a first paragraph of
“Following the bizarre cowboy yahoo barbeque circuit sad attempt at a makeover to fix what many believe is his extremely poor image and to get his extreme right-wing hidden agenda and religious-right anti-choice homophobe Charter-wrecking message off the radar of Canadians voters who apparently, according to untold numbers of polls which we’ve reported daily, are plainly liberal voters who aren’t “homophobes”…”
…which they probably will regardless.
I say they play it up—yell it out to Canada—to encourage a rebirth of confidence in that party. I say hire some of George Bush’s people or at least ask them for names.
Despite the vastly better fund-raising that the Conservatives have enjoyed over the Liberals and of course the extreme left-wing NDP (doubling the dollar amount raised by those two parties combined since the last election), the Conservatives have yet to make real headway in terms of apparent popularity. Of course the liberal media cannot be relied upon to engender the real picture here, but I think their communications and other basic functions that serve to grow the appeal of the party has ranged from poor to horrible since the new Conservative Party was formed, and I’ve said so a number of times. I cheered when they removed their chief communications man Geoff Norquay earlier this summer, along with other communications people.
So this is good news. Despite how the media will play it up (you’ll see!).
Oh by the way, more than 30 of Prime Minister Paul Martin’s people have left since the June 2004 election. (I bet you didn’t know that!) So clearly, obviously, without any question, the Liberal Party is FINISHED! Over, I tell you! Kaput! Spectacularly!
UPDATE 5:50 PM PDT:
Whadoyaknow! Here’s some of that fair and balanced media reporting coming along now!
Dan Dugas, Canadian Press: (most papers will run with this story)
Harper’s challenge capped a summer of touring the barbecue circuit trying to brighten his image as his party remains mired in the polling basement.
He has barnstormed the country talking tough about the coming election, expected early in the new year.
[…] His own problems – including a failure to unseat a tottering Liberal minority government in May, his loss of a star MP to the Liberal cabinet and grumblings in his ranks over his leadership – seemed not to worry the Tory leader, who meets with his caucus Wednesday in Halifax. […]
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