{"id":587,"date":"2005-12-03T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=587"},"modified":"2005-12-03T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T19:17:00","slug":"winning-by-losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Winning By Losing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&amp;cid=1133566816142&#038;call_pageid=968332188774&amp;col=968350116467\">Jim Travers<\/a>, comes a glimpse into Paul Martin&#8217;s new election strategy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\"><strong>In Montreal, he said Canadians must choose the best man to <em>lose <\/em>the country<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While many people may feel this is not the wisest thing to say, I for one am 100% behind this strategy. That&#8217;s because, after watching him for the past dozen years, there is no doubt in my mind that Paul Martin <em>is<\/em> the best man to lose the country. After seeing him be against the Clarity Act before he was for it, after seeing him claim that a yes vote would cost a million jobs, after seeing him bring Jean Lapierre in as his Quebec lieutenant, after seeing him mis-manage the sponsorship scandal, after seeing him call this an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macleans.ca\/paulwells\/archives\/week_2005_11_27-2005_12_03.asp#001919\">election referendum<\/a>&#8220;&#8230;after seeing all these things, I tend to think most Canadians will agree that Paul <em>is<\/em> the best man to lose the country.<\/p>\n<p>In some respects, this is simply a play on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenkinsella.com\/musings.htm\">Kinsella&#8217;s <\/a>&#8220;winning by losing&#8221; strategy. Nationalists in Quebec may be saying to themselves &#8220;<em>perhaps Gilles Duceppe isn&#8217;t the best man to lose the country.&#8221;<\/em> So by reminding them that he, Paul Martin, is the best man to lose the country, he is reminding them that, if elected, they&#8217;ll be fighting the next referendum against a Martin\/Lapierre tag team.<\/p>\n<p>If that doesn&#8217;t win over the nationalists in Quebec, I don&#8217;t know what will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Jim Travers, comes a glimpse into Paul Martin&#8217;s new election strategy: In Montreal, he said Canadians must choose the best man to lose the country While many people may feel this is not the wisest thing to say, I for one am 100% behind this strategy. That&#8217;s because, after watching him for the [&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-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}