If the Conservative War Room is to be believed it seems the Liberals tried to paint the Conservatives as soft on crime today. First off this is incredibly bad strategy. Crime & Punishment is a Conservative issue. No amount of Liberal spinning will change that. If you are casting your ballot based on C&P then your are most likely voting Conservative. The longer the Liberals talk about this issue the worse it is for them. Too bad the gangs in T.O. won't co-operate.
Here is another reason why it is a bad idea.
...Shoemaker, who is into the eighth year of his sentence, says most inmates plan to vote for any party other than the Conservatives.
Prisoners fear the Tories want to make life in prison harsher by taking away comforts such as televisions and stereos, he says. They also believe the Conservatives want to strip them of their right to vote.
"We live in a volatile environment and if they start taking these things away from us, it will just create more problems and tensions."
Inmates will vote anybody but the Conservatives. Can there be a better endorsement for the Conservative Party? (h/t NealeNews)
Update: This is what I was talking about. Check out the video in the link. In the 905 region 37% of people support the Conservative position on C&P to the Liberals at 23% and NDP at 19%.
Thinking back to the first Bloggers Hotstove (link on top right of page), none of us saw gun crime as a, of not the, sleeper issue of the election.
