More or less as I had anticipated, after failing entirely to characterize Justin Trudeau as "in over his head", the Harper Conservatives are turning to their next line of attack.
This time, the angle is to go after Justin's father and his legacy, thereby "blackening" the Trudeau name. The writer of the column on the National Post website is positively drooling over the content of the coming "blackened biography" - claiming that the biographies that have come before are all pandering to the "legend" of Pierre Trudeau.
Of course, that doesn't surprise me. The "Law-and-Order-Except-For-Conservatives" Con$ have always despised things that Pierre Trudeau did - especially the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which severely limits the government's ability to attack its own citizens.
It will be a classic "guilt-by-association" attack. I am sure that the Conservative attack ads for the next few months will contain little bits about various things that Pierre Trudeau did, and will try to imply that Justin will do the same things. Whatever is in those ads will be spun and distorted beyond any recognizable version of reality.
Or they may just attack the elder (and deceased) Trudeau viciously and hope that it is enough to damage the Liberals both as a party and Justin Trudeau as a leader.
It is as predictable as it is childish, as mean-spirited as it is ludicrous. Canadians are tired of the constant political character assassination of the Conservatives. At long last they are finally awakening to the reality that Harper is nothing more than a schoolyard bully who will do anything he can dream up to maintain his grip on power.
This time, the angle is to go after Justin's father and his legacy, thereby "blackening" the Trudeau name. The writer of the column on the National Post website is positively drooling over the content of the coming "blackened biography" - claiming that the biographies that have come before are all pandering to the "legend" of Pierre Trudeau.
Of course, that doesn't surprise me. The "Law-and-Order-Except-For-Conservatives" Con$ have always despised things that Pierre Trudeau did - especially the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which severely limits the government's ability to attack its own citizens.
It will be a classic "guilt-by-association" attack. I am sure that the Conservative attack ads for the next few months will contain little bits about various things that Pierre Trudeau did, and will try to imply that Justin will do the same things. Whatever is in those ads will be spun and distorted beyond any recognizable version of reality.
Or they may just attack the elder (and deceased) Trudeau viciously and hope that it is enough to damage the Liberals both as a party and Justin Trudeau as a leader.
It is as predictable as it is childish, as mean-spirited as it is ludicrous. Canadians are tired of the constant political character assassination of the Conservatives. At long last they are finally awakening to the reality that Harper is nothing more than a schoolyard bully who will do anything he can dream up to maintain his grip on power.
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