how close my posts are to columns that Andrew Coyne writes a few days later. Here was my post from a couple of days ago saying that the current parliament was as good as a majority (or at least as good as things are going to get for Stephen Harper and the Conservatives) and here is Coyne's latest entitled The PM doesn't need an election
...Meantime, he can use his opponents' weakness to gain yards: to take the centre ground for Conservatives, not by moving to the middle, but by moving the middle to him. "Reasonable... realistic... responsible" --count the number of times he used those words on Wednesday, even as he was taking a noticeably harder line on questions of policy. On Afghanistan, on taxes, on the "hollowing out" nonsense, the Prime Minister sounded, for the first time in a long while, like a conservative-- yet insulated from charges of provocation by the opposition's own provocative rhetoric.
Non-negotiable? Shucks, no. Every-thing's negotiable, when you know the other side has no leverage.
Comments (3)
There’s only one man alive who can actually make me fond of Harper and its the preening, pants-peeing, self righteous Coyne. Blah blah blah. Whatever, Andy.
Posted by alan | October 6, 2007 10:26 AM
Posted on October 6, 2007 10:26
In my book, there are far worse people to think like!
Posted by Idealistic Pragmatist | October 6, 2007 10:32 AM
Posted on October 6, 2007 10:32
Talk and act like a conservative and be open to the press when your opponents are all but done and Liberal and closed down when things aren’t going so well. Yeah, great strategy that.
Posted by nbt | October 7, 2007 4:34 PM
Posted on October 7, 2007 16:34