At a recent meeting of the Broadbent Institute supposed communication experts were telling the New Democrats that they should not keep up the incessant attacks on the Conservative government. It is not that they are feeling sorry for the bastards. They just feel that those who oppose the Conservatives need to be more positive about their competitive programs. And we Liberals will when we can when we get some.
We are not forgetting New Democratic Leader Thomas Mulcair’s national day care plan. This plan sounds good. It sounded even better over the years when it was promoted by Canada’s Liberals. In fact, back when the plan was devised, Thomas Mulcair was a provincial Liberal. He should be fairly well briefed on the plan.
But the good news this month is that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will be kicking off some policy in radio commercials. Nothing overly exciting but it is a long way to the election. And in the meantime, the palace guard has been doing an excellent job of keeping good ideas from reaching Justin. It only looks as though Justin was having something of a dry spell. Since he kicked a couple Liberals out of the caucus for getting horny for New Democrats and told right-to-lifers not to apply as Liberals, what more could he say?
The good news is that Justin is starting to throw some red meat to his candidates. It really would be stupid to have nothing positive to say about where your party wants to lead this country. Generalities are just not good enough.
But it would also be a good idea to try this idea of being nice to Mr. Harper. We are always willing to try a new approach in politics. (God knows how badly our old methods have screwed up things in the past.) So we will only mention positive things during the ‘Be Kind to Stephen Harper Month.’
We can also congratulate the Prime Minister on the excellence of his coiffure these days. As he has to stick around Ottawa because of the upcoming election, his hairdresser has more time to work with his hair.
And we could all congratulate him on his stance for war. We might even promote the idea of his being the person on the ground to show our pilots where to drop their bombs
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