Tory Astroturfing?
I dunno. Some are asking whether this is Astroturfing from the Tory side.
Could be. If so, it is pretty lame and frankly it could drive up Ignatieff's bona fides among conservatives who are lukewarm about Harper or angry at him for drifting into deficit-spending.
Ignatieff's definitely on the blue side of the Liberal spectrum. That's why I don't find him as scary as Dion, who would have probably united the left with his crazy coalition idea and we'd have the Green Shaft by now and our economy would be worse than Obama's tanking U.S. economy, trillions in debt, preparing for his crazy cap and trade plan and a huge new health care entitlement when America can't even afford its present Medicare and Social Security obligations.
Maybe its not Tory at all, but further to the left, to detach the redder Liberals from the party to vote for the NDP. Or it could be Liberal to look like Tory Astroturfing to play up how nefarious those right-wingers are with their dirty tricks. This stuff gets complex.
Will there be as much attention paid to whether there is Astroturfing on the progressive or liberal side of the spectrum, Kady? How about checking out the Communion controversy?
In the Astroturfing contest, I gotta give higher marks to the left side of the spectrum because it's still under the MSM radar (or they don't give a hoot) and it's my suspicion the Tories were blindsided.
All the Communion stuff came out while the PM and his staff were incommunicado over the Atlantic Ocean, leaving a whole news cycle where there was doubt about what the PM had done with the Blessed Sacrament.
Signs of the times? We're gearing up for an election in the fall. The guerilla war has begun in earnest.
Could be. If so, it is pretty lame and frankly it could drive up Ignatieff's bona fides among conservatives who are lukewarm about Harper or angry at him for drifting into deficit-spending.
Ignatieff's definitely on the blue side of the Liberal spectrum. That's why I don't find him as scary as Dion, who would have probably united the left with his crazy coalition idea and we'd have the Green Shaft by now and our economy would be worse than Obama's tanking U.S. economy, trillions in debt, preparing for his crazy cap and trade plan and a huge new health care entitlement when America can't even afford its present Medicare and Social Security obligations.
Maybe its not Tory at all, but further to the left, to detach the redder Liberals from the party to vote for the NDP. Or it could be Liberal to look like Tory Astroturfing to play up how nefarious those right-wingers are with their dirty tricks. This stuff gets complex.
Will there be as much attention paid to whether there is Astroturfing on the progressive or liberal side of the spectrum, Kady? How about checking out the Communion controversy?
In the Astroturfing contest, I gotta give higher marks to the left side of the spectrum because it's still under the MSM radar (or they don't give a hoot) and it's my suspicion the Tories were blindsided.
All the Communion stuff came out while the PM and his staff were incommunicado over the Atlantic Ocean, leaving a whole news cycle where there was doubt about what the PM had done with the Blessed Sacrament.
Signs of the times? We're gearing up for an election in the fall. The guerilla war has begun in earnest.
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