Martin eats Humble Pie

[August1991]

"As the leader of the party and as the Prime Minister of Canada, I take responsibility," Mr. Martin said. "I take responsibility for that which went well. I take responsibility for that which went less well. The buck stops here."

Let me tell you that I understand clearly that Canadians don't just give you their vote... You must earn their approval and I intend to spend every waking hour in the next four weeks between now and the election doing just that.

G&M Martin Wants Votes

While driving to day, I heard this on the news. I couldn't believe it. The Liberals wil use absolutely any strategem to get a vote.

These are the same crew that would do in any opponent who shows the slightest error.

This would be pathetic except it's so duplicitous.

[Dennis]

Let's not forget, this is the guy who said he was going to get to the bottom of Adscam "Come Hell or High Water." Yet, here we are in the middle of an election campaign and we still don't know what the heck went on in that scandal, nor do we have any sense that we will get any answers from the politicians responsible.

I have really been surprised at how willing Paul Martin is to say anything on any given day to try to score short term politcal points. He sais one thing one day then he completely contradicts himself a few days later.

And I think people see this.

Martin's numbers were going down well before the Ontario McGuinty budget. And even on that topic Martin has tried several different strategies - never sticking to one sincere view on the matter.

It has been this way for Martin since he became Prime Minister.

Even Paul Wells has entered the fray, ridiculing the Martin team for having cabinet ministers stalk Stephen Harper on the campaign trail today.

Team Martin has been spinning its wheels for months now. And the latest polls show this trend hasn't stopped during this election campaign.