Duct Tape Key to Conservates Campaign

“Duct tape works.”
– Ralph Klein, when asked about high poll numbers for Conservatives.

The Conservatives are enjoying high numbers in recent polls, but as this CBC article points out, it’s more for what they’re not saying this time around.

Remember all those scary, right-wing, homophobic Conservative candidates from 2004? They’re still around, they’re just not talking to the media.

From the CBC:

Rob Anders, the MP for Calgary West who once called Nelson Mandela a terrorist, has not been attending all-candidates forums in the riding and does not talk to the media. [Cheryl] Gallant is being similarly careful, communicating largely through press release and door-to-door campaigning. And Paula Henderson, a volunteer for Nova Scotia candidate Rakesh Khosla, told a Halifax newspaper that nobody would be commenting on Khosla’s participation in a meeting involving clergy members who are against same-sex marriage. “We’ve been told by Ottawa that we don’t talk about that,” Henderson said. “That’s a dropped subject.”

You’ll remember Cheryl Gallant as the one who compared abortion to al-Qaeda’s recent televised beheading of American Nicholas Berg.

Rob Anders calling Nelson Mandela a terrorist is only one of the terrifying things to come from his mouth.

It should be no surprise to that progressive Canadians have rallied together urging voters to Think Twice on Jan 23rd.

We all know that strategic voting sucks, but Jack has a strategy for all those fed up with the Liberals and terrified by the Conservatives:

“Lend us your vote while the party you have supported in the past cleans itself up.”
– Jack Layton

Sounds like a plan to me.

Update: Check out the NDP’s new TV ad to see former Liberals voting for Jack.

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