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Abortion in Canada's in a quasi-legal never-never land and it'll probably stay that way permanently. No one strong enough to overturn it and no one courageous enough to legally ensconce it.
No, the NDP (and the Bloc) will do just that. Its the one issue I think the NDP trumps the Libs on.
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But that's beside the point. You basically called for a purge of internal dissenters (I assume you meant the Tom Wappelle types) who wouldn't go along with a cheap publicity stunt that blew up in Iggy's face.
Publicity stunt? I think not. Voting to support reproductive freedom and education for women in 3rd world countries is hardly a stunt. As for calling for the purge of anti-choice Liberals? Yep. I do so with damn good reason because the right of a women to choose is a fundamental one and I don't want party members who don't believe that.
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Aside from being puritanical and totalitarian in it's very essence,
Not at all. Its called expecting your party and its members to supporting your beliefs.
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It completely ignores the real problems that you Liberals have these days. If the leadership had any idea of what it was doing these days they would have known that there were a handful of Liberal MP that, for whatever reason, wouldn't go along with some cheesy idea that was arranged around a dangerous third-rail issue like abortion. Not only do the Liberals currently have no comprehension of the existing political atmosphere they apparently don't even have a proper gauge of what their own MP's are now thinking of or being motivated by.
You sound just like the Republicans talking about Obama and the Democrats.
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The Libs tried to "draw out" the Conservatives into a trap where they thought that they could succeed with the boring, obsolete, and thoroughly inane tactic of "Cons are all women hating gay-bashers who are gonna put troops on Canadian streets!". And they ignored the reality that this truly dopey tactic has laughably failed to work for them about ten thousand times out of the last ten thousand times they've tried to use it. Liberal fail = Tory gain. All that happened is that the Liberal leadership again revealed itself to be totally hapless and that their old strategies from the 1990's won't work anymore.
What happened was that Harper exposed his parties core beliefs, and those are the core beliefs that prevent him from winning a majority against a so called weakened opposition.
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Sure ain't the Tories fault that the Libs are now about as effective as the French military General Staff was in the spring of 1940. You can complain all you want about how "unfair" it is that Stephen Harper's panzers keep running right over you guys but it doesn't change the fact that you guys are doing a piss-poor job of preparing yourselves for combat in the next election and/or forming the next government. Wrapping yourselves in the familiar old Liberal big-hearted self-righteousness sure ain't gonna change the facts on the ground as you guys keep reeling from defeat after endless defeat.
Endless defeats? So far Harper has failed to win a majority and if I am to believe you guys then Harper was forced to run a massive deficit. His so called pro-military image is quite frankly exposed as he postpones project after project and claws back funding when it should be increased.
The term pyrrhic victory springs to mind.