{"id":1843,"date":"2008-07-24T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2008-07-24T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T22:46:00","slug":"from-the-home-office-in-toronto-danforth-the-top-10-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1843","title":{"rendered":"From the home office in Toronto-Danforth, the top 10 reasons…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I trekked out to Jack\u2019s neck of the woods last night for the \"\"<\/a>Kinsella Young Liberal event<\/a>. First off, full marks to the Lang Gang<\/a> for another fun event, to follow up their wildly successful time raiser earlier this month. I always like underdog campaigns because you can have some fun with them and it certainly seems like that\u2019s their strategy.<\/p>\n

Jeff gives a great recap<\/a> of the event and Warren\u2019s zingers here, while Aaron takes issue<\/a> with Warren\u2019s \u201crah-rah go Liberals\u201d attitude. Since, you know, if there\u2019s one think Kinsella is known for, it\u2019s his rose-coloured-Dion-is-great-and-can-do-no-wrong attitude. If only he could look at Dion more objectively, like other bloggers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For those curious what the hubbub was all about, the presentation was a more in depth look at this top 10 list of reasons people shouldn\u2019t count Dion out<\/a>. I\u2019d say I agree with all of the points on that list to a certain extent<\/em>, although a lot of them work more to the \u201cstop a Harper majority\u201d than the \u201celect Dion\u201d end game.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the quick 10 points without explanation (to do that, go here<\/a>) \u2013 I\u2019m curious to see what people think.<\/p>\n

1. Dion is underestimated and female voters don\u2019t trust Harper.<\/p>\n

2. The LPC has great brand and organization strength. [ed note: brand, yes. Organizational? I think the Tories have us beat there<\/em>]<\/p>\n

3. Dion will turn the focus away from \u201cleadership\u201d by emphasizing the Liberal team.<\/p>\n

4. The Tories can\u2019t run an outsider or scandal-backlash campaign anymore.<\/p>\n

5. Campaigns matter and the Liberals have a good campaign pitch.<\/p>\n

6. \u201cMark my words: Jim Flaherty\u2019s anti-Dalton McGuinty campaign will go down in the political history books as one of the dumbest, most self-destructive campaigns ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

7. Team McGuinty will get involved <\/a>due to point 6.<\/p>\n

8. Picking Dumont over Charest will hurt Harper in Quebec.<\/p>\n

9. The media are out to get Harper.<\/p>\n

10. \u201cSt\u00e9phane Dion is a decent, hard-working guy. Canada is full of decent, hard-working guys and gals. The more they get to know him, the more they will like him. Just watch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I trekked out to Jack\u2019s neck of the woods last night for the Kinsella Young Liberal event. First off, full marks to the Lang Gang for another fun event, to follow up their wildly successful time raiser earlier this month. I always like underdog campaigns because you can have some fun with them and […]<\/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-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","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=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}