quote:With Paul Martin announcing his resignation as Liberal leader, and party recriminations well underway, his closest advisers were indignant at suggestions they might be responsible for a campaign gone wrong.
They've long blamed the Jean Chretien administration for the sponsorship scandal that dragged them down throughout their 25 months in office. Now, the news media and the RCMP are the latest additions to their black list.
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But many within Liberal ranks feel no sympathy for those complaints, saying Martin's campaign was dysfunctional from the start.
He hammered away on the Kyoto accord without putting forward a plan to meet its clean-air targets. He talked about national unity but offered no new ideas for bringing the country together.
He used same-sex marriage and abortion to paint the Tories as rabid right-wingers - while conveniently ignoring the dozens of his own MPs who sided against his policy.
{I'm amazed they're not blaming the NDP, like so many around here are...)
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From: goodbye... :-( | Registered: Dec 2003
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Hephaestion
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posted 24 January 2006 09:23 AM
LOL... Cindy Silver, former caldron-stirrer for the Fixated on the Faggits coven, is blaming "the media" for "misrepresenting" her views, and "changing the focus of the campaign" and thus causing her massive face-plant.
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posted 24 January 2006 09:30 AM
I blame the pathological Liberal voters. They add about two or three mysterious percentage points to the Liberal vote. Only SES saw them, though I think that was just luck. They will never admit to voting Liberal, really don't want to vote Liberal, but they lose their minds in the polling station. They can't help themselves, poor devils.
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posted 24 January 2006 10:04 AM
You cn also blame Basil. He had NDp voting lib, Lib voting NDp and in doing so he let the cons slip up the middle. This happened back in 1999 in Ontario. Buzz said to vote blah blah blah. I knew NDpers that voted lib and lib voting NDp in the same ridings...That does no goood for anyone.
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quote:The Liberals are searching for scapegoats for their historic defeat in our recent federal election (historic in that it represented their second lowest share of the popular vote since 1867), but they seem to be looking everywhere but where they should be looking — at each other or, better yet, in a mirror.
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ceti
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posted 03 February 2006 09:24 PM
Nice to see how much disregard and contempt people here feel for the average Liberal voter who approximate a third of the country at the very worst of times.
Also that a lot of these voters are from the city and a members of ethnic groups also leads me to believe that the average NDP booster here is colour blind, and has little understanding of how deep the multicultural image of Canada is associated with the Liberals for better or worse. So long as the NDP doesn't understand this, they will never get even token of support from minorities in this country.
From: various musings before the revolution | Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 24 January 2006 08:07 AM
HA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Fuck off, hoseclamp! 
