**Jan 9 8:05 PM PST—UPDATE BELOW with early commentary**
Watch for our benevolent Liberal leader Paul (“In FACT, I dint know nuttin”) Martin whipping out pictures of Liberal Party candidates’ puppies and children, in order to secure votes for “his Canada”. Those of you interested in “Canada” should simply listen to Conservative leader Stephen Harper.
But of course this is also an excellent opportunity to play our Fact YOU game.
Watch our video from last week for a primer on how it’s played.
(Here’s the blog entry for that video)
**UPDATE—**Jan 9 8:05 PM PST**
Harper won. Nearly all the media and folks I’ve talked to more or less agree, as best I can tell. Most people also agree Martin seemed panicky, desperate, mad, absolutely angry, tired, confused, and one major network political analyst, Craig Oliver, said Martin’s sudden, back o’ the napkin emergency ploy to take away the Notwithstanding clause was “confusing and bizarre”.
That hilariously transparent ploy is shear panic and desperation, designed to obfuscate and divert attention away from their own record. The Liberals are literally running AGAINST their own record. Bizarre indeed.
As if on cue and to prove that the Liberals lost, the Liberals, through their Liberal-friendly media firms, are now re-running their “Conservatives are scary monsters who love George Bush” folly, which proves to us yet again as if we needed it, that the liberal-left think Canadians are utterly stupid.
Here’s part of one early news report:
When it’s raining abuse, maintain a sunny disposition.
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper stuck to his playbook in Monday night’s federal election debate, striking a world-weary, good-natured pose under a barrage of criticism from Liberal Leader Paul Martin. In a spirited debate marked by sharp exchanges among all four party leaders, Harper was notable for his stubborn grin and calm demeanour.
Martin attacked the Conservative leader from the outset of this crucial, nationally televised meeting two weeks from voting day, mentioning his Tory rival by name three times in his opening address.
In response, Harper did everything but pull out Ronald Reagan’s devastating riposte to attacks during an American presidential debate in another age: “There you go again,” Reagan gently chided his tormentor.
Harper attempted the same tack, and some analysts believe he pulled it off.
Whether it was inviting viewers to make sure they cast a ballot “regardless of who they’re going to vote for,” or acknowledging “there’s some truth” to suggestions that old-line Reformers changed their views on parliamentary pensions, Harper presented a sea of calm.
The Conservative maintained “a demeanour that is likely reassuring to voters who don’t know him well,” observed Bruce Anderson of Decima Research.
Under the circumstances, that was precisely what Harper needed.
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