{"id":1918,"date":"2008-09-16T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2008-09-16T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T12:46:00","slug":"theyll-go-neg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1918","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;ll go Neg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I signed up for the Conservative Party&#8217;s e-mail list before the campaign started and got this today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canadavotes\/story\/2008\/09\/11\/leaders-breakfast.html\">There will be fiery speeches<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lJIfmop98BQ\">There will be ads<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notaleader.ca\/\">There will be custom web sites<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/article\/497413\">And the Liberal War Room will be issuing a flurry of messages to reporters <\/a>covering the Conservative campaign.  The tone will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/new-brunswick\/story\/2008\/09\/15\/nb-harper.html?ref=rss\">dark<\/a>.  The predictions will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservative.ca\/EN\/1091\/104978\">dire<\/a>.  And Liberals will be crossing their fingers that the narrative will work \u2013 just as it has in previous campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>They need to run such a campaign because they have <a href=\"http:\/\/worthwhile.typepad.com\/worthwhile_canadian_initi\/2008\/09\/just-when-you-think-that-conservative-tax-cuts-cant-get-any-dumber.html\">nothing substantive to offer<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We cannot allow the Liberals\u2019 campaign of fear to succeed.  We need to fight back with facts supported by top-rate advertising, direct mail and rapid response.  And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberal.ca\/donate_e.aspx\">we need your help to help us make that happen<\/a>. <br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I signed up for the Conservative Party&#8217;s e-mail list before the campaign started and got this today: There will be fiery speeches. There will be ads. There will be custom web sites. And the Liberal War Room will be issuing a flurry of messages to reporters covering the Conservative campaign. The tone will be dark. [&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-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","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=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}