"Voters finally rejecting fear,negativity"

[wisteria]

This actually pertains to the Canadian elections, but it has a lot of truth about our 2004 campaign in it and it mentions Kerry frequently. I though you all might be interested in reading it.

"In an incredible fit of desperation in the last days of the campaign, the Liberals seem to have taken everything they could from the American dirty-politics playbook, smearing Harper using amazing scare tactics in some of the most negative political ads ever seen on Canadian television."

"Those familiar with American politics know Karl Rove, the Machiavellian architect of George W Bush’s rise to power and the strategist famed for bringing the Republican Party into a position of dominance—often by smearing, villainizing and thoroughly crushing his opponents. Canada’s Liberals are adopting a similar style."

"It says it all about the Liberal party: appeal to Canada’s soft America-averse voters by denouncing that country’s politics and paint Harper as America’s best friend, all while using some of the same techniques Bush’s campaign used to beat John Kerry in 2004. Some of these include:"

p://www.gateway.ualberta.ca/view.php?aid=5419

[rockymountaindem]

1. Hey, it's the truth. I was talking to a Canadian Conservative voter

the other day at lunch, and I said "as much as I hate to admit it, I think a Conservative victory would be the best for America". She replied, "hey, don't tell that to the other Canadians!"

Although hey, anybody like Harper who said the American conservative movement is "a light to the world" should probably take a long hard look at themselves, ya know?

[wisteria]

2. yeah, it seems surreal that liberals would be taking a page out of

the Rove handbook and Conservatives (yuck) would be gaining ground because of it. It's a shame our voters could see through the the smears and lies in 2004.