tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8543717098552457095.post5486424499735617367..comments2023-05-10T00:29:43.419-07:00Comments on The Clown At Midnight: Occupy Your Local EDA?Mr. Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06319748084679909911noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8543717098552457095.post-30759042253999532712011-11-17T15:20:25.411-08:002011-11-17T15:20:25.411-08:00Good thoughts. A few points in response.
-Adscam...Good thoughts. A few points in response. <br /><br />-Adscam played a major role, it is true. But we don't have one of those right now. Waiting for the Liberals to mess up is not something I'm content to do. <br /><br />-The idea of smaller government can and should be an area of focus. The problem is that our focus is easily broken by Liberal attack ads, false outrage, and the like. We are so worried about what the Liberals will do and think if we do something conservative that we forget why we're running in the first place. It's not just the Ontario PC's that have done this. We can come up with the most conservative platform ever but if we scatter in the face of attack ads it'll be for nothing. <br /><br />-We are individuals, which is why things shouldn't live or die with the leader's office and what the leader says. When Ford's run in with the law was exposed, the strength of his supporters carried him through. That didn't happen for Hudak. <br /><br />-Sun News is all well and good, but I see far too many people watching Sun News for a little while and calling it a day as far as being conservative goes. I love their willingness to stand up to the CBC, but the CBC is only part of the problem. <br /><br />Mr. JAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8543717098552457095.post-7290149500191643132011-11-17T03:33:25.767-08:002011-11-17T03:33:25.767-08:00“Did we boot the Liberals out of Ottawa by screami...“Did we boot the Liberals out of Ottawa by screaming about this or that outrage?”<br /><br />As a matter of fact we did just that …Adscam is what booted the Liberals out. Then once in the seat of power PMSH used his incremental tactics of slowly being able to sway a majority in the ROC into believing that he didn’t have a hidden agenda, despite what most of the MSM preaches.<br /><br />“We aren’t consistent” because we don’t have a central plan, we don’t believe in that. What we do believe is that “it's too expensive to take care of people from birth to death.” Therefore we need to campaign on less is more. That’s why catch phrases like 9-9-9 work …for awhile; then they need to be explained and when they are explained they become as unpopular as HST because that’s what 9-9-9 involves…a value added tax, which is an efficient tax. Because HST is efficient that’s why Hudak only railed against it but would not eliminate it... one of the many the inconsistencies of his campaign.<br /><br />What to do? Sure, getting involved with the EDA is a necessity. Writing emails to candidates, MPs and MPPs is important. As is connecting with pundits who share our conservative views. These ideas do need focus and that foucs has to start with: we want smaller less intrusive government. But that idea is a hard sell and we need help from the MSM (actually I believe Sun News is a large step in the right direction when it comes to selling conservative values of individual responsibility).<br /><br />But mostly we need a leader who believes in smaller government and it’s hard to believe Hudak does when he says he’ll take as long McGuinty to balance the budget, that he won’t touch Health and Education which is 70% of the budget…on and on. In essence Hudak wanted us to simply vote PC because his bureaucracy would be better than McGuinty’s ….and it probably would have been. But unless you are a life long card carrying PCer, that’s not enough.<br /><br />The PCs have 4 years to get consistent about how they plan to remove the fiscally progressive ideas from the PCs.<br /><br />Conservatives are by definition inconsistent, they are individuals, not a collective; just listen to the line up of GOP leadership candidates. But they all believe in smaller government. When the PC leadership figures out how to articulate that, then we’ll energize the Party and win.<br /><br /><br />nomdeblogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com