More Conservative dirty tricks?

Thats a laugh...anyone on the left knows that the msm wouldn't publish anything against Ignatief, except perhaps the National Post, so why would they waste all that postage, paper, ink and and time on sending it to everyone?!

But great attempted smear of the NDP west coast greeny!!!

Does anyone, but Macleans, seriously believe that R4I, was made by anyone on the left?

NorthReport wrote:

If this keeps up Ignatieff will at least win the sympathy vote.

Someone with deep pockets, now which party could that be. Hummm, that's a tough one.....

Political prankster harasses Ignatieff

 

Looks like Harper has "Tricky Dick" Richard Nixon written all over him. The more time passes, the stronger the comparisons become.

Why the subterfuge? Why done in the form of blackmail? Why anonymously?

Who stands to benefit? Who stands to be hurt by this?

The Conservative Party clowns who thought this up aren't as clever as they think they are. They did partially succeed. Notice the posters who assumed the letters came from the left?

Is Harpo and the Conservatives' track record on the environment better than Iggy's and the Liberals? If not, then why wasn't Harpo also targeted?

If this came from the left, why didn't the person and/or political party/group go public and go to the media, where they would have had the most effectiveness.

No, the underhanded paranoid anonymous "let's screw Iggy in such a way he won't be able to screw us back, because if we didn't do it to him first he would have done it to us," mentality has the hallmark of Richard Nixon and Stephen Harper written all over it.

To reveal the truth in such a way, regardless of who it is directed toward, is to make "truth" a dirty word and reflects more on the instigator than on the person who is the subject/target/victim.

You should do research on why Nixon was called "Tricky Dick". He would have people on his staff payroll known only to him (and who would report only to him) and have them do things like spread rumors that free pizza would be offered at Democratic conventions during an election, so you would have people show up who would disrupt the convention raising questions about free pizza and being disgruntled when they found out there wasn't any. This is only one of a number of dirty tricks Nixon would play during his political career.

People like Bush, Rove and Harpo are merely imitators of the maestro.

Michael Ignatieff would have sent Canadian soldiers to Iraq, approved some of the tor-- (oh, excuse me, I mean [i]coercive interrrogation[/i]) techniques) used at Abu Ghraib, and has not recounted those views. Yet he is able to pose, in the face of a fawning media, as a champion of human rights and "Canadian values." And many Canadians who despise his views are able to convince themselves that Ignatieff does not in fact have those views, and justify voting for him as the "lesser evil."

Brown envelopes are sneaky and clumsy, but it's appalling to see that there is actually more outrage over the use of a brown envelope, than there is over Ignatieff's enabling of Bush's war and Bush's torture-lite. 

The fact that Harper is also appalling, is irrelevant to that point. When confronted with a reminder that Ignatieff is a warmonger and a booster of some forms of torture, the media response is mainly to lament and laugh at "dirty tricks." It all adds up to giving Ignatieff yet another free pass. If I had a suspicious mind, I'd say the Liberals staged the whole thing themselves to add to the "rally round Saint Michael" sentiment.

Ze wrote:

 

The fact that Harper is also appalling, is irrelevant to that point. When confronted with a reminder that Ignatieff is a warmonger and a booster of some forms of torture, the media response is mainly to lament and laugh at "dirty tricks." It all adds up to giving Ignatieff yet another free pass. If I had a suspicious mind, I'd say the Liberals staged the whole thing themselves to add to the "rally round Saint Michael" sentiment.

"The fact that Harper is also appalling, is irrelevant to that point." No it's not. It shows how all Canadians are going to suffer in the next election. Come next election, the majority of Canadians (of the small number who do vote) will vote for either of the two traditional parties. That leaves the Conservatives with Harpo as PM or the Liberals with Iggy as PM. The fact is, there isn't any (significant) difference between the two, with the result that Canadians will suffer when the next Prime Minister assumes office - whomever of the two it is.

"... the media response is mainly to lament and laugh at 'dirty tricks'." That's a natural reation from both the Canadian media and Canadian public and underscores the fact that such devious/dirty tactics backfire on those who employ them.

Harper did it. He's (as much as) publicly admitted it: "I cannot fire the leader of the opposition and with all the tapes I have on him, I do not want to." - Stephen Harper in the House of Commons, May 27, 2009.

The latter part of that statement reveals his Nixonian character. The first part reveals the, at times, not so secret anti-democratic wet dreams he harbors.