We pull back the curtain and what is in full view is by no means like the grand prize a lucky contestant can win on a game show. Read More
Carney Liberals once again want to link Pierre Poilievre to Donald Trump, this time with dirty tricks of their own
Carney Liberals once again want to link Pierre Poilievre to Donald Trump, this time with dirty tricks of their own
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We pull back the curtain and what is in full view is by no means like the grand prize a lucky contestant can win on a game show.
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It is a game. It is a show. But there is no prize.
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It is just outright ugly.
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First, let’s look at the buttons.
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In Ottawa, conservative-minded activists attend a gathering.
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At this gathering, buttons surface, planted at the event.
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They look like Trump-style buttons and they are meant to be seen as buttons cooked up by and distributed by conservatives.
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But they weren’t conservative buttons. They were Liberal buttons.
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They were intended to get Canadians to see how conservative types are on board with U.S. President Donald Trump, as their dear Liberal Leader Mark Carney has told all of us again and again and again and …
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Over drinks in a pub, Liberal staffers brag about the dirty tricks operation and confirm the Liberal party is behind it. This is the Liberal party who would never stoop to such tactics. Just ask them.
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Of course, as reported, the nastiness was orchestrated by the Carney Liberal war room.
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No shocker for anyone paying attention.
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Carney and his crew have run an election campaign elevating cynicism to an art form. Bad art.
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His campaign is all about Trump and how only he, Mark Carney, can save us.
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Trump is going to break Canada so he can own Canada.
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Trump wants to annex Canada and make it part of the United States.
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All the 51st state jazz that is not happening.
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In Carney’s script, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre worships at the altar of Trump and will kneel before him.
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Carney is most comfortable and does less stumbling when he is talking about Trump and casting himself as the one to fight Trump and talking not so much on what he would do to clean up the mess left by the Liberals.
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To go that route, Carney would first have to admit there is a Liberal mess.
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A few times Carney says what he thinks you want to hear until you ask for details and get a word salad you wouldn’t feed to a pet hamster.
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No commitments. Ready to green-light a pipeline?
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I asked Carney that question in Calgary and got all talk and no walk.
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In case some readers are just dialing in to this theatre of the absurd, the Liberal campaign is about getting you to forget the last 10 years under … say his name … Justin Trudeau.
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The Liberal Road Show is also about getting you to know as little as possible about the unknown Carney, the international man of mystery.
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Most of all, the Carney Liberal campaign is about painting Poilievre as a Trump buddy, a sellout.