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Thomas Mulcair wins NDP Leadership race
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:53 pm    Post subject: Thomas Mulcair wins NDP Leadership race Reply with quote

Thomas Mulcair has won the NDP Leadership on the fourth ballot.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/25/pol-thomas-mulcair-ndp-leader.html

Will this tough fighter be enough to counter the Conservative Reform Alliance Party's (CRAP's) vicious attacks and go on the offensive?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Isn't he quite centrist for an NDP? That might be good for the party's electoral prospects, but rather sad if the NDP gives into that bloody Third Way.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AstroGeek wrote:
Isn't he quite centrist for an NDP?

He is. He is a former Liberal minister in Quebec. Of course, he was too far left for them, and Quebec politics are not really left/right, but anyway.

... and he is my MP!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AstroGeek wrote:
Isn't he quite centrist for an NDP? That might be good for the party's electoral prospects, but rather sad if the NDP gives into that bloody Third Way.


I hope not.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hopefully he can give Harper a good thrashing.

Hopefully he takes Raes advice and asks spontaneous questions instead of being a party line fiend.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote





The NDP is planning to get jump on defining Thomas Mulcair before CRAP paints a sticking image in voters' minds.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/26/pol-ndp-ads.html
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Master_Pedant wrote:




The NDP is planning to get jump on defining Thomas Mulcair before CRAP paints a sticking image in voters' minds.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/26/pol-ndp-ads.html

Tighten up the animation and the voice, and this could be a real Conservative attack ad.

I strongly suspect that the reason the Liberals are waiting so long to elect a new leader is so that the Conservatives don't have too long before an election to poison his (or her) image like they did for Dion and Ignattief. Poor Dion never had a chance to explain his policies before we were all convinced that he was "not a leader.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think Mulcair has some serious potential against Harper. It really depends on how well he can navigate the shitstorm the CCRAP is going to try to lay on his reputation. This is their m.o.
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