CPC Campaign Strategy: Fear, Fear and More Fear

[jdobbin]

Me too.

Those photos of a grinning Idiot, Socialist and Separatist shaking hands are pure gold.

Tonight, they had the video of Harper, Duceppe and Layton from their own coalition. Pure gold.

[jdobbin]

Something said to rally supporters at an event closed to the media, doesn't exactly mean it will be the main theme of the campaign.

Here is the ad they are putting out now.

The Liberals have lashed out at a Tory ad that seeks to raise fears about a possible coalition government, in a glimpse of the no-holds-barred campaigns both parties would unleash in a fall election.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff "will do whatever it takes to get power, even signing the coalition pact with the Bloc Quebecois and NDP," a narrator says in the ad, which began airing this week. "Can we risk our economic recovery on someone who's just in it for himself?"

The Liberals responded:

The press release also includes a quote from former Harper adviser and political scientist Tom Flanagan, saying of the coalition threat: "It doesn't have to be true, it just has to be plausible."

Edited September 13, 2009 by jdobbin

[M.Dancer]

"Can we risk our economic recovery on someone who's just in it for himself?"

We can't. We shouldn't and we won't.

[Who's Doing What?]

So, now the Cons are the ones running around yelling "scary, scary, scary."

What say you now CPC supporters?

You who have ridiculed the LPC for the same damn thing.

Oh right. Silly me I forgot the #2 rule in the CPC hand book. "B-b-b-but the Liberals..." If the Liberals did something then it is perfectly ok for the CPC to do the same regardless of how much they screamed and frothed at the mouth about it when the Libs were doing it. Heck it started with Emerson and hasn't stopped since. Where is the integrity we were promised?

Edited September 14, 2009 by Who's Doing What?

[Jerry J. Fortin]

Partisan politics is like that folks. It is one of the reasons why I favour independent candidates.