God, Pondering. Watching you clinging to such paltry scraps of nonsense to justify your ridiculous support for the Liberal party is cringe-inducing. Your Justin-worship was never defensible, and it just keeps getting more and more indefensible all the time. If you don't stop bending over backwards to excuse everything they do, I'm afraid your spine is gonna snap.
If anyone is ahead it is the NDP but having watched the leaders for so long, despite Trudeau's stance on C 51 and a few other missteps I think he is going to connect very well with Canadians.
It is so very Liberal of you to characterise voting in favour of turning the country into a police state as a "misstep". Sure, he stripped away your rights and freedoms. That might have been a "gaffe". A "stumble". But no worries! He's still gonna "connect"! It's all about personality. Nobody cares about their privacy and due process. You are a sad spectacle.
All they will need is the platform to come flocking back. In my opinion people want to support Trudeau but they couldn't say why due to the lack of policy. That started turning people to the NDP. All Trudeau has to do is prove that he is ready and present a strong platform.
Yeah, two problems with that. First, he's not ready and never will be. So he won't be able to prove that he is.
And second, people already supported him. Yes you're right they wanted to be on team Justin, and they were for a long time, but they gradually found him wanting and drifted away. It was inevitable, since he actually isn't qualified to do this. He's already lost them once. It will take something much bigger than a platform to reverse that decision. Turning around to go back takes a lot more motivation than picking a direction in the first place. that's basic psychology. So we know that the decision to leave the Liberals and go to the NDP wasn't made quickly or easily, and won't likely be reversed easily either.
This is the kind of thing the NDP does, and it is nasty. I don't think underhanded attacks like this will sway voters who are deciding between the Liberals and the NDP.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/09/01/ndp-liberals-violence-against-wo...
On Tuesday, the NDP released a statement titled “Liberals oppose plan to combat violence against women.” In turn, star Liberal candidate Michèle Audette accused the NDP of making political hay with the sensitive issue.
Incumbent NDP candidate Nicki Ashton called Trudeau’s remarks “disturbing” and an “attack on the NDP’s commitment to end violence against women.”
“The Liberals are opposing the NDP’s concrete plan to help the most vulnerable women in our country, so they don’t have to ask the largest corporation to pay their fair share,” she said.
“That’s wrong.”
Where do you think the NDP's accusation will fall on the baloney meter?
Well, it's 0% for me. There's nothing underhanded about this. It's barely even an attack. All they're doing is highlighting the difference between them and the Liberals. Y'know, exactly what a campaign is supposed to do.
The Liberals were saying the NDP didn't care about women's issues because they turned down the debate. The NDP said, "Here's the real concrete thing we're going to do for women, will the Liberals make the same commitment?", the Liberals talked around it but wouldn't commit, referring to the debate again, and the NDP essentially said "See! All talk no action". There's nothing underhanded about that at all. They are absolutley right to point out that the Liberals always congratulate themselves for talking about problems, but never come through with solutions. I also think the NDP should have done the women's debate, but a debate is still just a debate. It does not compare to dollars on the ground where they are needed. All you get with the Liberals is the talking.
When Canadians get to know Mulcair and Trudeau better, I think they will choose Trudeau.
Except Canadians already know Justin. They knew him before he became leader. He is very well-known. What you are going out of your way to avoid admitting is that they've liked him less as they've gotten to know him more. He voted to take away their rights, and you can't accept that this is a big problem for people and that it reflects poorly on his character, even though Justin's popularity plummetted right after that happened. It's patently obvious, yet all you do is deny, deny, deny. Sorry, Pondering. They chose Justin once already, and he let them down big time. There's no going back.