maplesyrup Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 It seems strange that one week before the election Harper takes a day off. What has happened to the Conservative campaign? Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playfullfellow Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Maybe he got tired of hearing all the rhetoric coming from the other leaders and just needed a day off. We all need a day off every now and then, even politcians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maplesyrup Posted June 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 I doubt that. One week to go in an extremely close election race, and Harper takes a crucial day off. Conservatives had a rough week last week and something is definitely wrong. Was it the Air Canada turbulence? Was it being McGuintied by Ralph Klein on Health Care? Perhaps it was Harper's position on Iraq. Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelandmero Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 The bullshit from the other two parties got so deep he needed to take a dayoff to clean his hip waders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remus Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Most likely it is the last chance for a day off heading in to this last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardner Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 It is a strange thing... Maybe he's just tired, or maybe they need to re-think their strategy for the last 7 days. As far as BS goes, Harper chooses his words more carefully than any leader I've ever heard. That means you need to read between the lines, folks. I'm reluctantly voting for the status quo this time around. I'm think Martin probaby knew about the funny business going on in Quebec, but he had to look the other way. What else was there to do ? Martin's a manager and only a so-so politican, whereas Harper and Layton are excellent politicians and unproven managers. Quote  Click to learn why Climate Change is caused by HUMANS Michael Hardner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playfullfellow Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 I doubt it MS, I just wish the other guys would take a day off too so we could all have a day of rest from all the spittle flying through the air. You know, maybe he had a personal affair that he felt was no one elses business to look after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoker Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 IMHO, Harper knows that starting on the 29th, he is going to be quite busy and probably won't be getting much time off for the near future...... And/or he needs a little time to start figuring out his cabinet (if he hasn't done that already). Quote The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. -June Callwood- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maplesyrup Posted June 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Harper puts campaign on pause for a day Stephen Harper put his campaign on pause Monday as the Conservatives worked to refocus their election message after five days of internal pandemonium. As I suspected, the wheels have fallen off the Harper Conservatives' bus. Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiraly Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 "As I suspected, the wheels have fallen off the Harper Conservatives' bus." Looks like it is all over folks. Hopefully, the Conservatives can at least retain official party status. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maplesyrup Posted June 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Don't take my word about the wheels coming off the Conservative bus. -from Jeffery Simpson's column in the Globe tomorrow: Preliminary evidence indicates that this obvious strategy is working. An Ipsos-Reid poll for The Globe and Mail, taken over the weekend, shows the Liberals now leading the Conservatives by 34 per cent to 28 per cent nationally, a gain of five points for the Liberals and a loss of four for the Conservatives.It Ontario, the Ipsos-Reid poll has the Liberals pulling ahead 42 to 30 points, a sharp swing. (The Liberals' internal polling shows the party leading 41 to 31 in Ontario.) Liberal candidates and organizers had been scratching their heads about why the national campaign refused until recently to hammer home Canada's stellar economic record in recent years. No wonder Harper has taken the day off. Perhaps he should take the rest of the week off. Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playfullfellow Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 No wonder Harper has taken the day off. Perhaps he should take the rest of the week off. There is still a week to go and a lot can happen in a week, this whole election has shown that. No matter what MS, I think we can both agree this has been an interesting one no matter what our view points? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardner Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 I don't think we should put too much stock in one poll. You need a few polls to be sure, then the big poll on the 28th. Quote  Click to learn why Climate Change is caused by HUMANS Michael Hardner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maplesyrup Posted June 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 The first few weeks of the campaign was all about the Liberal scandals. But the last week the focus has shifted to dissecting what the Harper Conservatives are all about. Canadians are having second thoughts. Harper is no longer the teflon man. Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Blair Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Harper's in trouble. He never ran anything but a negative campaign and peaked too soon. People are asking a lot of questions and Harper has been unable to answer them. His whole campaign was based on the sponsorship scandal, and that's gotten old and tired over the last few weeks. At the same time his radical policies were being dragged out into the light. Homophobia, hatred of bilingualism, xenophobia, and privatisation might play well in rural Alberta and Saskatchewan, but they don't in the rest of the country. Harper has also done some things to damage his credibility with his core supporters. Before the election started it was his party that stood on the side of US meat packing corporations over Canadian ranchers and farmers. In Saskatoon he refused to talk about agricultural issues. He is extrememly reluctant to criticise the US for its policies on Canadian hogs and the Wheatboard. The NDP and Liberals need to pound him on those things in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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