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The ideal situation for the Conservatives is to have as their main opposition a weak ‘adaptable” Liberal Party. They don’t want the situation that has evolved in the UK where the Liberals have been relegated to a poor third. The NDP cooperate in achieving this objective by attacking the Conservatives when the Liberals are weak and only going after the Liberals when they are strong. The danger in this case is that the Liberals are so vulnerable that there is a possibility that the NDP could actually take second if they switched to attacking the Liberals in the last two or three weeks of the campaign. Since the Liberals appear to have no positive momentum, now is a good time to carry out a preemptive strike on Jack to prevent him from gaining enough momentum to serious;y challenge the Liberals with a switch in tactics. If Harper is playing chess and Dion checkers, Layton is playing tic-tac-toe.

Canadians deserve and democracy requires a competent loyal opposition, and the Liberals aren’t it.

I’m not sure the NDP are it either, but they probably won’t be worse.

The ideal situation for the Conservatives is to have as their main opposition a weak ‘adaptable” Liberal Party…

Swift, you are probably right that having a weak Liberal Party as the official opposition would be the best case scenario for the CPC, but would it be the best thing for Canada as a whole? I’m not so sure.

Sammy, I’m just watching that presser now.

This is very good news indeed.

“”’would it be best thing for Canada as a whole?”
A short answer is yes. Dion obviously will be gone, and the Liberals will have a new leader. Radical environmentalists will suffer a setback without going through the pain that is starting to be felt in Europe. Either Rea or Iggy will likely win the leadership. Quite different scenarios will likely play out depending on which one it is and I’m about to go out to do as little campaigning, so I am not oing to go into details about how each would benefit the CPC and Canada as a whole.

The official opening of our campaign office is this evening with Jim Flaherty and he is meeting with the local movers and shakers also. We are apparently going to be a target riding which is great news for us locally. But it is also good news nationally, as we would not likely be one if the national campaign was worried about many of the seats that were picked up in the last election.

This is giving libloggers fits if this is any indication.

http://jasoncherniak.blogspot.com/2008/09/jack-layton-prefers-conservatives.html

Expect a spike in tinfoil prices at the grocery store this week.

Jad:

That Winnipeg Sun article is a hoot, considering that the Liberals and Greens are in obvious collusion.

If Dion and May fail to criticize each other during the leadership debate then I cry “foul”.

Yep, Layton as opposition was raised on this blog months ago..if you remember?

If memory serves me correctly, we also advised the Dion camp to watch their backs because this could be a possibility. We even blogged back and forth about how Dion’s team’s strategy should be to go after Layton, not Harper.

See? The Liberals should have paid attention to us here.

Oh and by the way, I just had a phone call from the Ontario PC party looking for donations. Could someone get through to that braintrust and tell them there’s a federal campaign on!!! This is the second request in the last three weeks. One via emailed newsletter, one today by phone.

What gives?

First: I think JACK! as opposition leader would be fabulous for Harper. For once a properly defined opposition to (hopefully) nascent Conservatism could be juxtaposed to rampant socialism, represented by the NDP. I’m tired of socialism-quasi-conservative lite practiced by the Liberals and the confusion at the ballot box that results.

As to the joy of EI for business owners: we’ve had that option all along, it was just impossible to collect. So, now we can? Thanks but no thanks.

I operate my business to make a profit from business activity, not feeding off what others contribute to a collective fund. You are supposed to be “independant” at your business activity or it’s not a business.

You want paid time off for cancer or such, get disability insurance and don’t deduct the premiums from your corporate income - it’s tax free that way. You can also get corporate sponsored Blue Cross or an equivalent. You can also purchase critical illness insurance and keep me out of the loop of paying for your “independant business” operations, while you are sick or pregnant. Next we’ll have to be enforced to pay into this joke of a scheme.

Part of the blessings of being an independant business man/woman is the independance it is supposed to offer, from government interference into how we spend our profits, or conduct our business activities. These are Conservatives running for office? In name only!

Canadians need to see the ‘left’ in action. Canadians need to see that Dipper’s ideology will soften when they actually have to represent a broader base of Canadidans, if they want to retain the position for more then one election cycle.

Wilson, the other thing about it is that Jack would actually have to put his money where his mouth is.

If we ended up with another Conservative minority, and the NDP were the Official Opposition, they wouldn’t have the luxury of voting against the Government right after an election if it meant the government would immediately fall. So they might end up being the ones who would have to sit on their hands!

“Hey Swift - I have great respect for Jim Flaherty how are things looking for him there?”

My sister and her husband are working on Flaherty’s campaign, and things are going very well. Jim is highly respected in his riding. There was a rally/meeting Sturday and it was very well attended.

Internal polling mirrors what the national polls show, Conservative’s in the high 30’s, Lib’s dipping to the mid 20’s, and Dippers high teens. The strategy to pay little attention to Dion has paid off for the Dippers, and may also help Conservative’s split the left vote even further, as votes move away from Dion as he becomes more marginalized. The Dion/May pact is also making Dion look more inept as a leader, sending lefty votes to Layton.

It would help if the campaigning went right to the issue of the economics. How each party’s going to pay the programs? Otherwise, it’s all conjecture even with regard to left splitting. Jack’s said he’d recall the subsidies to industries to cover the $8 billion for the auto sector over so many years. We need to hear the rest of the zany/unaffordable plan.

Dion’s carbon tax shift has been debunked over and over.

Harper’s just making readjustments/fine-tuning the last budget and platform. Will anything new be up for consideration?

“Harper’s just making readjustments/fine-tuning the last budget and platform. Will anything new be up for consideration?”

Expect Harper to announce some new and impressive platform/policy planks in a few weeks that should cement the deal. One thing I forgot to menton in the polling is those are decided voters. The Conservative base of decided voters is very strong, and swaying over even a small percentage of undecided voters could put us over the top for a majority, barring any major gaffes of course.

The left-vote is softer between the Lib’s, Dippers, and Greens. This is the reason pollsters are giving for the fact Layton could end up as official opposition. Still a longshot, but if trends continue you never know.

It couldn’t be that the media was manufacturing the majority just so they could bring us a “softening” now could it?

Oh, check Kinsella’s site and the new ad the Liberals have put out. There’s something missing from the ad though….NO DION. Check it out

I am beginning to read articles in the MSM attacking Layton in the very same way they attack Stephen Harper. At first I was surprised, but then I re-considered. While the media hatred of Stephen Harper is well known; the venom we read in the paper is driven more by fear. Fear for the liberals and for Dion. Stephen Harper has been attacked and slandered from day one because he is a serious threat to liberal power (more than that now obviously, but you get the idea). Jack Layton is now a very serious threat as well. He too is feeling the attacks of journalists. How long until May starts getting some vicious press?

May, I think you have a point there.

Jo,if you get cpac,it will be replayed later tonite.I’m pretty sure you can access it on-line as well.I would bet dollars to doughnuts some brilliant Blue Blogger…like yourself,will have the clip up and running asap.
Best part of all tho,and wait for it…CBC NATIONAL NEWS highlites this story,as well an OUTRAGED Turner interviewed by phone…he’s blaming ‘biased,dirty bloggers’.They interview Steve Janke (AGWN) for his uncovering Garth hypocrisy.Watch near end of Nat.News for the Ormiston Online segment.It’s a beauty!