Give the Liberals a Time-Out
A parent who loves a child has to step in when the child does something obviously wrong. If the parent doesn't let the child know that he or she did something wrong, they are essentially condoning the behaviour.
It is the same with politicians. There are voters out there who like the Liberals and who like McGuinty for some reason. They are certainly entitled to that opinion. However, in this election, if they choose to vote the Liberals and McGuinty in again, they are giving them a pat on the back for the countless broken promises and lies. This will signal to them that Ontarians condone the behaviour of lying and going back on promises and they will therefore feel free to do so again.
To send a message that we notice when politicians break promises and we are not okay with it, it is necessary to give the Liberals a time-out. They need to spend a term sitting in the corner and contemplating what they did wrong to the population of Ontario. Then next election, if they have truly repented, they can be lovingly welcomed back into power by the liberal voters.
But right now they need some discipline, and it is the job of Ontario voters to dispense it.
She makes some good points.
The Faith-Based funding issue has been brilliantly used by the Liberal war-room strategists to deflect attention from Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty's long list of broken promises.
So what if voters just decided to teach him a lesson? For his own good. Just this once.
It would be good for him; humbling even. It would make him a better man. More accountable.
So if you love Dalton, don't vote for him this election.
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Related - From a CFRB interview with John Tory:
Personal Note: I've just finished reading Warren Kinsella's "Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics". It's a real eye-opener. He claims that people don't have the time to really delve into issues during elections and are trying to gleam it from evening news clips, etc. as they rush off to the next soccer practice.
So those 'gotcha' moments and ten-second sound bites are crucial. All that matters is getting your guy elected.
More on that over the next few days. I believe the book should be required reading for anyone who wants to vote.
At least then they'd understand how they're being manipulated.
ASTTR - Looking inside Dalton McGuinty's Liberal Election Campaign.
"It's as if the people are saying it's Okay to have a low standard of behaviour for politicians," Tory said on CFRB this morning as he tried to explain how his campaign got derailed and how the Liberals "dishonesty' trumped his effort to change to tone of politics in Ontario.
Personal Note: I've just finished reading Warren Kinsella's "Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics". It's a real eye-opener. He claims that people don't have the time to really delve into issues during elections and are trying to gleam it from evening news clips, etc. as they rush off to the next soccer practice.
So those 'gotcha' moments and ten-second sound bites are crucial. All that matters is getting your guy elected.
More on that over the next few days. I believe the book should be required reading for anyone who wants to vote.
At least then they'd understand how they're being manipulated.
ASTTR - Looking inside Dalton McGuinty's Liberal Election Campaign.
12 comments:
Yes, your comments on the book are perfect. People who vote Liberal think they are smarter and more evolved than the rest of us.
The truth is, the Liberals know that their base are actually very ill-informed and they skew their campaigns as such. They know that they can win by - not - appealing to voters intellects and by playing to their more base instincts like fear, bigotry and prejudice.
I find even most NDP voters are better informed than Liberal voters. It is the McParty of Canadian politics. Junk food for the soul.
And their latest McItem on the McMenu is the McGuinty. Looks pleasant enough in the commercials but after it is ingested it causes the worst acid reflux.
Sadly, just like the burger, people keep eating them by the boat-load.
Looks pleasant enough in the commercials but after it is ingested it causes the worst acid reflux.
That's right. You always get a stomach-ache soon afterwards.
Beware Ontario. Better stock up on the Tums right now. You'll need them tomorrow night.
in other words, even the liberal war room grunts think that the general electorate are idiots.
tori
If Kinsella and co. get the desired results then, yes, they think the electorate are idiots.
A McGuinty majority will prove them right.
Give me a break. Conservatives, whether they are Ontario PC's or the federal Tories use the same cynical tactics to get themselves elected. They are NO better.
The one instance that really caught my eye in this campaign was the PC ad that had a young girl coughing and was critical of McGuinty not closing the coal fired power plant. The criticism of McGuinty breaking his promise was fair. But the girl coughing suggested that not-closing the plants was bad independant of the fact a promise had been broken, which again would be fair... if Tory was planning on closing the plants himself. The commercial was blatantly misleading.
... and there are countless other examples.
I know you are probably upset because Tory is going down in flames over his ill advised faith-based school thing and consequently you have McGuinty as premier for four more years--which clearly you feel is a bad thing.
But suggesting that Liberals are unique in using snappy misleading commercials and media-friendly one liners is ludicrous. Conservatives are just as bad.
KC,
No, not - just - as bad. Many tactics are used by all parties and always have been and always will. But The Liberal Party of Ontario and Canada counts on a special kind of ignorance and let's be frank, stupidity, that goes beyond the pale.
They know they can use a word like 'segregation' and their supporters will think it is 1807 Alabama.
They know they can say that test scores are up when in fact our public school system is in shambles.
They know they can tell the average urban voter that a 10 hour wait in a hospital is alright and not get questioned.
They know they can say the economy is great when we have one of the slowest growing economies in Canada.
They know they can break promises and say they didn't and their supporters will shrug their shoulders and say 'okay'.
As the book suggests, the Liberals know and count on a rare breed of voter ignorance to get elected.
Sorry if that burns your ego. But don't say you weren't told.
Joanne,
Thanks for a great post.
C.D. Howe Institute launches report supporting school choice entitled "Breaking Down Monopolies" that is a must read for those open-minded and intelligent enough to know that Ontario is once again falling behind other provinces where school choice is concerned.
kc - of course the Liberals are counting on voters being rather, ummm....uneducated. They're the folks who believed the lies once and will be sucked in again.
Can't wait for the first contract dispute in the education sector. I do believe that support staff contracts come up this fall.
C.D. Howe Institute launches report supporting school choice entitled "Breaking Down Monopolies" that is a must read for those open-minded and intelligent enough to know that Ontario is once again falling behind other provinces where school choice is concerned.
kc - of course the Liberals are counting on voters being rather, ummm....uneducated. They're the folks who believed the lies once and will be sucked in again.
Can't wait for the first contract dispute in the education sector. I do believe that support staff contracts come up this fall.
Nicol - BS. Conservatives have done every one of those and worse. You simply choose to ignore it because you are (presumably) a supporter.
Im sorry but I endured the last federal election campaign where hyperbolic rhetoric about "entitlements", "sleaze", and "filth" were used with great success to tarnish the name of the LPC. Stephen Harper talks about "bringing freedom to Afghanis" when apostasy is still a crime punishable by death. He talks about putting money in the pockets of middle class Canadians when his GST cut had only marginal benefit for middle income earners.
Conservatives are every bit as full of crap as anyone else.
And to think that those entitlements attributed to the federal Liberals seem to have found their way to their provincial counterparts. It's all part of their record don't'ya know.
Right out there for all to see and we Ontario knuckle-draggers will wait for their hands to find their way to our pockets...again.
"entitlements", "sleaze", and "filth" were used with great success to tarnish the name of the LPC.
They tarnished the party because they were true. No great secret there.
Is it true that FB-funding, no matter how politically stupid, is "segregationist"? That word was chosen by the Libs specifically for its connotation.
Is it true that FB-funding, no matter how politically stupid, is "segregationist"?
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