Does the media paint Ford as antivaxxer because he is against vaccine passports?
They will if an election campaign starts while that issue is still relevant.
More importantly though, most Canadians support that insanity., so it's a losing strategy to publicly oppose it. Candidates need to STFU about issues that the party is vulnerable on. Win the election first, and then you can do whatever you want.
O'Toole threw this Yukon MP out of the party because he would do the same as Trudeau.
Wait, has the party even said why they threw him out? Or are we just taking the candidate's (and Rebel News') word for everything?
They will if an election campaign starts while that issue is still relevant.
If it's such an election issue Ford and Kenney alone will be enough to paint the whole Conservative party as antivaxx then.
Wait, has the party even said why they threw him out?
Dude, it's been 24 hours since this news broke. Do you see any denial from O'Toole or the CPC? Are they so incompetent to even release a statement if that wasn't the truth?
And now ask yourself, did this move by O'Toole help win votes or did it hurt by eroding his voter base even more? This electoral district would have been one of the easiest pickups. Jonas Smith lost by 150 votes last time and the Liberal candidate isn't running for the next election. He would have the name recognition on his side. Now the CPC will have to find a new candidate for this district a month away from the election. Are the chances that the CPC will flip this district now higher or lower Ham?
If it's such an election issue Ford and Kenney alone will be enough to paint the whole Conservative party as antivaxx then.
They're different parties.
And now ask yourself, did this move by O'Toole help win votes or did it hurt by eroding his voter base even more?
You have to measure this against the cost of the media turning around and calling the CPC an anti-vax party. The only people the CPC are alienating here are people who are already voting PPC.
Doesn't matter. They are Conservatives. Conservatives that are on stage with O'Toole campaigning with him, shoulder to shoulder.
The only people the CPC are alienating here are people who are already voting PPC.
And they aren't winning any voters from the Liberals with this move either. Not a single time O'Toole went against his base to court voters on the left had worked so far. When he argued in favour of climate change while the party voted against it, the media made fun of him and shred him a new asshole. When he did a 180 on the carbon tax, loud Conservative voices (and not only those PPC voters) saw it as betrayal.
If O'Toole loses the next election (and I even admit that there is a chance, well small chance, that he could win it), it won't be because of the PPC and their voters. It will be because of O'Toole and all these spineless fucks around him who can't get him to stick to Conservative principles.Not the PPC is eroding his voter base. He is.
So how come Scheer and the federal Conservatives didn't get painted with the #metoo brush they concocted for Patrick Brown?
If O'Toole loses the next election (and I even admit that there is a chance, well small chance, that he could win it), it won't be because of the PPC and their voters.
It's not just the count of actual votes moved from the blue column moved to the purple that's important. That cost probably pales in comparison to the support eroded by demoralization.
Remember before this stupid PPC nonsense started and there was just one unified right devoting all their efforts to taking down Trudeau? The PPC fucking obliterated that. Just look at metacanada. It went from high-energy anti-Trudeau meme-factory to cesspit of infighting overnight when Benrier launched that stupid party. Forget the number of actual votes siphoned off of the CPC by the PPC. What is the cost of the right being demoralized for four years by constant infighting? I would submit that you're seeing that cost in the polls right now.
And for what? To support some sham party that will never even win a seat.
The PPC is the best thing that's ever happened to the Liberals.
They will if an election campaign starts while that issue is still relevant. More importantly though, most Canadians support that insanity., so it's a losing strategy to publicly oppose it. Candidates need to STFU about issues that the party is vulnerable on. Win the election first, and then you can do whatever you want.
Wait, has the party even said why they threw him out? Or are we just taking the candidate's (and Rebel News') word for everything?
If it's such an election issue Ford and Kenney alone will be enough to paint the whole Conservative party as antivaxx then.
Dude, it's been 24 hours since this news broke. Do you see any denial from O'Toole or the CPC? Are they so incompetent to even release a statement if that wasn't the truth?
And now ask yourself, did this move by O'Toole help win votes or did it hurt by eroding his voter base even more? This electoral district would have been one of the easiest pickups. Jonas Smith lost by 150 votes last time and the Liberal candidate isn't running for the next election. He would have the name recognition on his side. Now the CPC will have to find a new candidate for this district a month away from the election. Are the chances that the CPC will flip this district now higher or lower Ham?
They're different parties.
You have to measure this against the cost of the media turning around and calling the CPC an anti-vax party. The only people the CPC are alienating here are people who are already voting PPC.
Doesn't matter. They are Conservatives. Conservatives that are on stage with O'Toole campaigning with him, shoulder to shoulder.
And they aren't winning any voters from the Liberals with this move either. Not a single time O'Toole went against his base to court voters on the left had worked so far. When he argued in favour of climate change while the party voted against it, the media made fun of him and shred him a new asshole. When he did a 180 on the carbon tax, loud Conservative voices (and not only those PPC voters) saw it as betrayal.
If O'Toole loses the next election (and I even admit that there is a chance, well small chance, that he could win it), it won't be because of the PPC and their voters. It will be because of O'Toole and all these spineless fucks around him who can't get him to stick to Conservative principles.Not the PPC is eroding his voter base. He is.
So how come Scheer and the federal Conservatives didn't get painted with the #metoo brush they concocted for Patrick Brown?
It's not just the count of actual votes moved from the blue column moved to the purple that's important. That cost probably pales in comparison to the support eroded by demoralization.
Remember before this stupid PPC nonsense started and there was just one unified right devoting all their efforts to taking down Trudeau? The PPC fucking obliterated that. Just look at metacanada. It went from high-energy anti-Trudeau meme-factory to cesspit of infighting overnight when Benrier launched that stupid party. Forget the number of actual votes siphoned off of the CPC by the PPC. What is the cost of the right being demoralized for four years by constant infighting? I would submit that you're seeing that cost in the polls right now.
And for what? To support some sham party that will never even win a seat.
The PPC is the best thing that's ever happened to the Liberals.