Hudak or Ignatieff: Who was the bigger loser?

[SLM]

I would vote. For anyone that promised to cut the fat in government.

A lot of people would. And had that been the approach, he may have gotten a lot farther.

It's just my opinion but I think the optics of the campaign were JOB CUTS in the public sector. '100,000 Jobs Cut' were the first four words/terms in the banner headlines. Presented to a public that has seen a great deal of job losses over the past decade. Not what you want to open with.

You can call it semantics if you want to, I see it as optics, and the PC Party in Ontario played them poorly. Once again, they lost the election, I do not believe the Liberals won the election despite that being the end result.

 

[mentalfloss]

King Iggy was going to be the great intellectual prime minister of Canada. He had a lead and the election sewn up. He chose the time to defeat Harper with a nice lead in the polls. It was his to lose ... and he did not only losing but finishing 3rd with 19% of the popular vote ... only 10 or so % ahead of the green party. That is a definition of a loser if I ever saw one.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

The Liberals were no where near a lead before the election or even two years prior.

All we heard about was sponsorship scandal, much like Hudak's failed attempt with gas plants.

 

[Sal]

What say you?

I'd say once you've lost you're all equal. But Hudak didn't lose, he gave it away.

 

[mentalfloss]

I'd say once you've lost you're all equal. But Hudak didn't lose, he gave it away.

You're right.

He won by getting to resign.

 

[Sal]

You're right.

He won by getting to resign.

so did we

 

[Spade]

Wynne, Wynne!

 

[Sal]

Wynne, Wynne!

lol we lost, lost lost...

 

[tay]

Ignatieff's return to Canada turned out to be a very bad idea -- both for him and for the Liberal Party. Andrew Cohen writes in The Ottawa Citizen:






If he had wanted out three years ago, who could blame him? And now that he is leaving, who can blame him? What is there left for him in Conservative Canada except tears, taunts, cries and laments?

His political sabbatical was a disaster. He led the Liberals to the worst defeat in their history – worse than 1958, worse than 1984 – becoming the third party in Parliament, unprecedented in their long history.

Under Ignatieff, the party went from official opposition to prospective oblivion. If the Liberals run third again in the next election, behind the New Democrats, there will be pressure from progressives to merge with the NDP, as there was in 2011. And that will be the end of the Liberal Party of Canada.

When the Liberals convinced Ignatieff to return, they were repeating the same strategy they used when they convinced Mackenzie King -- comfortably ensconced in the United States and working for the Rockefellers -- to return and save the country form Robert Borden and Arther Meighen.

But, unlike King, Ignatieff had been away too long. He had lost his feel for the country. Moreover, King was a consummate politician. Ignatieff was a teacher.






An end to Ignatieff’s Canadian adventure | Ottawa Citizen