The writ has FINALLY been dropped after many many months of speculation. For almost two years, Stephane Dion has taken a pounding from Conservatives without fighting back. There is no way we grits can out-advertize the financially endowed Conservative war room, especially after 2 years of being clobbered. The only way to fight back is with effective, smart, and aggressive negative advertising. It's time to fight fire with fire.
Let's stop kidding ourselves, if our fearless leader continues to play the nice guy, we'll end up with something similar to 1984/1988. Dion, essentially, will be John Turner-ed if he doesn't make a dramatic shift in his campaign style.
I dare not even imagine what damage a Harper-led Conservative majority government would do to Canada.
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The problem, it seems to me, is that the Liberals don't seem to have much confidence in Dion and the Green Shift plan, which is a shame because it sounds promising. But if the party was truly behind it, I do not think that the liberals would just take the conservative thrashing on the chin the way they've been doing.
Does Stephane Dion have enough experience to be P.M?
Obama doesn't so I can't see how Dion does.
Dion has more experience to be PM than when Harper first became PM 2 years ago. He has almost a decade of experience as a result-generating cabinet minister. My argument is that he needs to be more aggressive in order to go heat-to-head against a pitbull like Harper.
Eh? What does Obama have to do with anything? Dion has more government experience then Harper does including executive experience as a member of the cabinet which is the crux of McCains argument against Obama.
Essentially the Globe and Mail got the headline right IMO... this election is The Man vs The Brand. Dion should avoid falling into the trap of making this an election about party leaders and immediately go on the attack against the Conservatives brand itself.
I think they're on the right track in regards to attack ads in Quebec with the spot I saw on the news yesterday. But they need to push hard in Ontario.
I'd go with an Attack/Policy Announcement/Attack/Policy Announcement daily rotation. Spend one day talking about In-and-out/Cadman Affair/Impending Deficit/Tainted Meat/Seat redistribution (In Ontario)/program cuts and then spend the next day rolling out a new/focusing on a policy plank before going back on the attack and so forth.
Force the conservatives on the defensive (where they have considerably less skill then when they're on the attack). And for god sakes get some better talking points and more pitbullish people to deliver them. It's not that hard... just sum things up in a 15 second statement and instruct people to repeat those statements everywhere they go. You can do that with anything (And yes, that includes the Green Shift. Which isn't hard to put into a soundbyte dispite what the Conservatives try to say).
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