Saturday 12 March 2022

How To Kill Your Own Campaign.

As that wise political strategist Warren Kinsella would say, when you're on defence, you're losing. You know, Charest on the colour of his political cloth, the carbon tax, Quebec's sales tax, etc.

But the other leg of the two-legged stool is equally important: when you've got practically no credible policy of your very own and have already become totally obsessed with sinking Charest, well, that just won't cut the mustard, even if you happen to already be "TRUE Blue." That's Poilièvre, Byrne and company in a nutshell. The candidate ain't exactly an easy sell, nor is Charest for that matter and original policy is microscopically thin, so it's all out on offense and only that against the Charest bogeyman. Not too impressive. In short, you can't win on just I'm not Jean Charest.

Meanwhile, Chong is out, which is a strategic mistake given his political bent and MacKay isn't in. If Peter wants to play, he can't prolong this too much longer otherwise he'll lose credibility as time passes him by.

I won't in any way pretend to be neutral and unbiased. That would be farcical. A lot of Conservatives know exactly where I stand. The question is, where am I going politically in this leadership race?

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