Courtesy of Paul Wells

[c9]

... But here's an ad I'd run this weekend, if I was a Grit and seriously worried I was about to lose big:

BLANK BLACK SCREEN

TYPE APPEARS ACROSS SCREEN AS DEEP, URGENT VOICE READS TEXT:

"Foreign Minister Stockwell Day"

SCREEN DARKENS; RELIGHTS ON LIBERAL LOGO; BRIGHT WOMAN'S VOICE READS:

"On January 23, Vote Liberal."

Comments

[c9.livejournal.com]

Almost certainly not. My political views lie somewhere between Liberal and NDP, and part of me really wants Paul Martin and his cronies out. I don't like the idea of a Tory government, but I know it has to happen either this time or next, and at least this time it's a minority. But anyway, I'm almost sure I'll be voting on principle for the party I prefer to hold some sway, the NDP.

[ratonil.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Here I do vote for the ruling coaltion (center-left), even though I think we need a change. They have been in La Moneda for 16 years... but in the other hand, the Conservative alliance is not what I want... specially a billionaire as a president.

[ratonil.livejournal.com]

Yeap, so passé. That's why I'm voting for an agnostic, socialist and single mother.

If people think we'll be richer just because a successful businessman is president... they're so fucking wrong.

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

I really hope people don't think that way... I mean, George Bush ran every company he ever headed straight into the ground...

OTOH, Paul Martin ran a very successful shipping company, and managed to do good things as Finance Minister (only G8 country running a surplus, that's gotta count for something!)

[c9.livejournal.com]

True -- PM made a really good Finance Minister. Too bad he wanted a different job.

[skeezix1000.livejournal.com]

I always wondered what Paul Martin's tenure as PM would have been like had Chretien not left him with the pile of dog sh*t that is the sponsorship scandal.

[c9.livejournal.com]

I think if Martin had been willing to just sit down, shut up, and wait for the never-defeated Chrétien to retire on his own terms, sponsorship would have pushed him out instead of tarring Martin. A great "what if" for history.

[jamincan.livejournal.com]

Also, I think Martin completely lacks the leadership ability of Jean Chretien. Despite all his flaws, I'm almost entirely convinced that he would have managed the scandal far better than Martin has.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Oh totally. His appearance at the Gomery commission alone proved that to me.

[ratonil.livejournal.com]

Here Mr Piñera (pr: pignera) owns a TV Station, Chile's main airlines, has stocks in some pension and insurance companies... and owns a lot of land in the south of the country.

Scary.