First Stephen Harper is too angry. Ooooh, scary stuff. Now he is without passion.
Irrespective of can't win for losing here are my thoughts.
Paul Martin: He looked like Darcy Tucker hopped up on 15 cups of coffee and sudafeds. He actually made me tense when he was speaking. He spoke way too fast. He stamerred. His hands were waving all over the place. And he didn't have a handle on what he wanted to say, i.e. he had to look at his notes constantly while talking.
Stephen Harper: He was speaking over the heads of the commentariat directly to Canadians. He was calm and articulate. He took some hits over the SSM issue but other than that the questions worked very well with his policies. In fact he had policies to directly answer the questions where the other leaders had to evade them. Paul Martin looked nervous for most of the debate. Stephen Harper looked Prime Ministerial.
Jack Layton: Did very well. Had his message and he stuck to it. Voting NDP gets results. No corporate tax cuts. It did become tedious but he was there, on message and was heard.
Gilles Duceppe: Does it really matter what he says in the English debates? Damian Brooks noticed something I missed.
Did anyone else just hear what Gilles Duceppe said?
"We shouldn't have a free vote every six months on a question that's already been decided."
Here's what he forgot to add:
"Oh, I'm talking about same-sex marriage. If it's about Quebec sovereignty, we'll hold a vote every twelve seconds if we have to until we get the result we want."
Nice.
