Get ready for Justin-mania!

You know, the key to dealng with Trudeau if he is leader is to ask him about all the things the LPC have gone back on, and ask him what he thought about them, and what is going to be different this time. We need to hammer at this over and over. His dad said he wouldn't implement Wage and Price controls, and then did. His dad wouldn't implement the Carter Commision's implementation of fair taxation of Capital Gains. The promised National Day Care in 1993 and then didn't. In 2003 they were determined to have stolen from workers from the Unemployment Insurannce fund and never paid it back, etc., etc., etc. The NDP has shied away from really going after these guys. We need to if we are going to make the case why you CAN'T trust the Libs and need to vote NDP. Even this garbage about the Kelowna Accord, we need to call them out and ask them for really meaningful committments this time. If we don't do this, the MSM will puff Trudeau up, and King Justin will follow his rightful succession to the throne. Rightful? Sure! Just ask a Lib.

Maysie to the rescue - Justin time!

 

I don't see why I would lock a thread that is heralding Canada's next golden age. I'm sure some shortsighted individuals see this issue as frivilous; I see it as the most important happening of our time.

I wouldn't underestimate this guy.

Gordon Pinsent reads Justin Beiber.

No matter how many times I watch this, I still laugh my damn head off.

Oh bagkitty, I didn't realize it was picture album time!

 

 

 

Hee hee.

P.S. Did you hear that Justin Beiber was named after Justin Trudeau? Pass it on. Ba ha ha!!

"Grilled cheese...girls...I wish I was him." Hahahahaha. Thanks, Maysie.

@quizzical, yes I really wonder which voters Justin Trudeau is meant to charm. I mean he did swear that one time, but most young people I know don't consider him any kind of deep thinker. And if Liberal baby boomers really want to relive their youth so bad that they invite this goof back, well I think we should all just away for awhile and spare their dignity.

We might as well have the Biebs.

CF most "young" peeps i know don't consider him ever......

boom Sirius

I'm too young to have experienced Trudeaumania, but it seems to me that it would have started in the general public AFTER he became PM, not before, right?  Probably none of the younger generation really knew much about Pierre Trudeau before he became PM either - it seems to me that it would be only AFTER you elect the guy and then you have a young, charismatic and handsome man in the top seat that the "mania" starts.

(And yes, I used "man" deliberately, because I don't think the dynamic would be the same with a young, pretty, charismatic woman.)

And it was not unlike Obama-mania 40 years later, arresting poster imagery and all.

Trudeau-"mania" was a very shot-lived phenomenon. Trudeau jumped into the federal Liberal leadership contest just 6 weeks before the April 1968 convention, so it kind of started during that whirlwind leadership campaign - then it accelareted when Trudeauy called a snap election the day after winning the leadership and it carried him through to electyion day in June 1968 - not long after that Trudeau became quite unpopular and he never regained that initial "mania". I'm not sure that any "mania" for Justin could keep going through a seven month leadership campaign AND a subsequent three years as a leader of the third party in parliamewnt. Time is not on Justin's side in this case. I think Justin would be like Christy Clark in BC - a brief "mania" followed by total self-destruction.

Do you actually know where he stands on any issues to have figured out where to put him on a political spectrum.  I tend to have always seen him as a party hack. 

As well unlike other parties a Liberal party members are not the only people who can vote for their leader.

Its the same phenomena that occurred, the Liberals focus on the idealized fantasy of the guy and even seriously look under the hood. Dion was displayed as an eviromental giant, a vision of a green future and Steven Harper was totally outclassed by him, and he was the posterboy for federalism, Mr. Clarity Act, but the reality is he was a terrible and weak enviromental minister, the Clarity Act is both poorly written and unrealistic, and he failed as communicator. Micheal was touted as an intellectual titan, a,forgiegn policy expert, an inspiring speaker, and a man who outclassed Harper. The reality is he advacated forgiegn policy ideas such as Iraq that Canadians opposed and then changed his position in a way that was blantantly opportunistic, forgiegn policy does not determine Canadian elections anyways, and he allowed Harper to smear him, and while he may have given some barn burners as speeches, he got destroyed in the airwaves war and over all image. Paul Martin was touted as a great finance minster, perhaps the biggest joke of all. He balanced federal budgets by tossing responsablity on those suffering and cutting health and education transferes. Then he acted as if he would protect these things from Harper and based his campaigns on it. Its like he ignored his own record. Its the same thing with Trudeau. They talk about his charm, his bloodline (as if this is the middle ages where only the noblity and royalty were seen as fit to govern), his youth and visions of Camelot. No one who toutes Trudeau as the savior of the Liberal Party mentions policies, concrete achievements, over all vision (an example of over all vision would be Mulcair and sustainablity and not just enviromental sustainablity), or anything of substance. Its the same Liberal patterns.

I'm OK with Justin Bieber. I'd take him over Justin Trudeau anytime. When in political doubt, look to see which has more support from the lesbian community...