{"id":1094,"date":"2006-09-28T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T16:25:00","slug":"leaked-memo-shows-liberals-fear-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Memo Shows Liberals Fear Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Document rates Tory hopefuls<\/strong><br \/>Sep. 28, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>British Columbia MP Stockwell Day is the Conservative MP Liberals would least like to face in a general election.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Conservatives are not currently in a leadership race, Liberal strategists are fearful that a quick switch of leadership could lead to a CPC majority government. The conclusions are contained in a super top secret exclusive confidential memo obtained by Calgary Grit, and written by prominent Liberal strategist David Herle.<\/p>\n<p>Herle, a key Liberal war-room strategist in the last federal election, says Day &#8220;worries me most.&#8221; &#8220;People look at Stockwell Day and they see a young, vibrant leader who looks great in a wetsuit.&#8221; the report continues. &#8220;Stopping the Day momentum in a campaign would be akin to reversing the flow of Niagara Falls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Harper is seen as a &#8220;Liberal wet dream&#8221; due to his cold personality and considerable baggage. The report concludes that his record as Prime Minister would become an issue in an election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>While some have questioned the timing and conclusions of this leaked top secret report, most agree this is the work of the infamous &#8220;Liberal mole&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Document rates Tory hopefulsSep. 28, 2006. British Columbia MP Stockwell Day is the Conservative MP Liberals would least like to face in a general election. Although the Conservatives are not currently in a leadership race, Liberal strategists are fearful that a quick switch of leadership could lead to a CPC majority government. The conclusions are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}