~ CPC PING! ~
Posted on 05/27/2005 12:45:21 PM PDT by GMMAC
I agree. What can he lose? Despite Canada being a laughing stock for having the most corrupt government in its history, the Liberals have the same support they did last summer. The CPC is back down to 27%. To hell with it. Come out with a strong right wing agenda. The 27% is basically the core anyways that would be unlikely to change their vote.
Harper need to learn from Mike Harris's "Common Sense Revolution".
I've heard that before. To be honest, out west, I take little interest in what happens west of Alberta, so I never really paid attention to Harris. He only lasted one term, didn't he? What was his approach?
He said he's going to CUT welfare during a debate.
Still this day I can't believe he even got elected. Also, we have the largest teacher strike in history. What did he do? He stood firm and still got elected.
The poll also suggests that a more 'moderate' (read: liberal) leader would not really change the polling numbers at all. It wouldn't matter if it was Stephen Harper, Peter Mackay, Bernard Lord, Stockwell Day or George W. Bush leading the party, it would still be too "scary" for the MSM and their liberal supporters. We need to win from the right.
Hey! Thanks for posting the CSR! I lost my copy a few years ago, and it was The Reason I got involved in politics!
Bah! It's gone!!!! *crying*
2 terms. Then we got Ernie Eves, the Cino, and the rest is Lieberal history.
I think this is the problem of most conservatives (small 'c'). We use common sense, so we know we're right, so what's the use of trying to convince other people. Liberals, on the other hand, are completely clueless, and just want to convince you to join them on their cliff edge.
Mike Harris is a fraud????? No true conservatives would say such a thing.
Good for him. We need to be more like the Ayn Randers who never apologize for fiscal conservatism. Challenge the reality of the welfare state.
I think he got an absolute majority (over 50% of the popular vote) in 1995...dropped slightly in 1999 (something like 47%).
2007 will probably see Dalton McGuinty re-elected with about 35% of the popular vote (a lot of the right will support fringe parties).
We are not too bright here in BC either. We gave 34 seats to the NDP. In the midst of a bright economy.
Interestingly the Ontario Liberals received almost the same number of votes in 1999 and 2003 - the difference was that, in the latter year, over 20% of the conservative vote stayed home sick of being sold out.
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