{"id":11187,"date":"2011-09-16T12:21:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11187"},"modified":"2011-09-16T12:21:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T16:21:50","slug":"how-not-to-run-an-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/16\/how-not-to-run-an-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to run an election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been referring to Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak as “McGuinty Lite” for a few months now. Christina Blizzard<\/a> has the same nickname for him:<\/p>\n

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He wants all-day kindergarten, has no problem with Muslim prayer in schools — and won\u2019t talk about a greater role for the private sector in health care.<\/p>\n

Dalton McGuinty?<\/p>\n

Nope. It\u2019s Dalton Light — aka Tim Hudak.<\/p>\n

The beleaguered PC leader seems stuck.<\/p>\n

The wheels on his campaign bus just don\u2019t have any traction.<\/p>\n

He went into the campaign 12 points ahead in the polls. Now, nine days into the campaign, he\u2019s fighting to stay even with McGuinty.<\/p>\n

Yet even this, \u201cme-too,\u201d campaign, has been branded as \u201cTea Party North,\u201d by the Liberals.<\/p>\n

Hudak has failed Politics 101.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have two theories to account for this (neither of which is particularly convincing). First theory: there is some really nasty surprise waiting to be sprung on the premier soon after the election, and Hudak wants to avoid being the patsy. Second theory: Hudak has become really<\/em> comfortable as leader of the opposition and doesn’t want to risk becoming premier.<\/p>\n

Either of those, or perhaps Hudak is really a sleeper agent of the Liberal Party. That might account for it . . . he’s being called a “Tea Party” candidate, but it must be homeopathic tea, as there’s no strength to it at all. It’s been diluted down to nothingness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been referring to Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak as “McGuinty Lite” for a few months now. Christina Blizzard has the same nickname for him: He wants all-day kindergarten, has no problem with Muslim prayer in schools — and won\u2019t talk about a greater role for the private sector in health care. Dalton McGuinty? Nope. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[584,188,87,739],"class_list":["post-11187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-daltonmcguinty","tag-electionwatch","tag-ontario","tag-timhudak"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Ur","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11188,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions\/11188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}