The Nuclear Option

[c9]

"The Nuclear Option" means to give up all pretense, subtlety, and possibility of "leaving it in the locker room," so to speak. Today, the Liberals released their ads that will either win them the House, or be discussed mockingly in political science classes for decades to come. As Paul Wells puts it*:

Now Stephen Harper is about to find out what it felt like to be a mid-level Liberal who volunteered for Allan Rock in 2002.

Ads in English, and en français. The one called "Military" left me speechless for at least three reasons, and not because of what Harper said.

* I swear this is funny, you'll just have to believe me.

Update: The Liberals have pulled the military ad (probably because the armed forces vote and it was a bit over the top), so thanks to a blogging Tory here's the script and a link to CTV's site where you can watch it anyway.

Here's the complete script for their new attack ad titled "Military," complete with rum-a-dum military drumming in the background, released today:

Stephen Harper actually announced he wants to increase military presence in our cities.

[long pause]

Canadian cities.

[long pause]

Soldiers with guns.

[long pause]

In our cities.

[long pause]

In Canada.

[long pause]

We did not make this up.

[long pause]

Choose your Canada.

CTV helpfully provides archives of the ads. Click Liberal attack ad about Harper and military presence 0:30 on the right hand side.

Comments

[bartok.livejournal.com]

Being outside of the country during this whole thing, and therefore not being exposed to political ads what-so-ever outside of ones on the Internet leaves the whole thing feeling rather dis-joined. That military ad was probably one of the worst cases of rabble-rousing I've ever seen.

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

Ditto on the dis-joined bit. My election info sources are the following, in order of the amount of information I've recieved from each:

-- Cam
-- Other people on LJ
-- The Globe
-- CBC News: Sunday Morning
-- elections.ca

[c9.livejournal.com]

I may end up regulated by Elections Canada at this rate.