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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (3732)	3/21/2004 12:51:44 PM
From: Lino...	Respond to of 37993

foolhardy and myopic ....or perhaps liberal wishful thinking.....after all, aside from corrupt scheming, they seem incapable of any other thinking

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (3732)	3/22/2004 1:10:05 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 37993

Perhaps, but that alone will not keep Harper out of office. To think that Canadians are focused purely on the military decision in Iraq is foolhardy and myopic. The Liberals will attack the Conservatives like at no other time in history. What Canadians are focussed on will depend entirely on how successful the spin meisters are on both sides. An anti-war stance reasonates strongly with many Canadians, including a significant (although perhaps minority) number of Conservative Party members I would be willing to bet. Depending on timing of the election and other revelations from the middle east, this issue area may well be one of the key election time battlegrounds. I'm quite certain this will be pushed in front of Canadians over and over again; its one policy point of Harpers that he will have huge trouble defending. Others - like Same Sex Marriage, for example - are easily defensible since the country is polarized on issues like that. Like the Clement "third rail of Canadian politics" comment on health care, our place in the world/security/US influence and our participation in wars and US foreign adventures is highly likely to become the fourth rail in the upcoming campaign. One only needs to look at the polarizing affect of War on Canadian political history. Imagine the Quebec specific advertising that will come out. Ontario Soccer Moms are no more enamoured by the Iraq war than the average Quebecer too.